Item2.Desk Item with Attachments 4-5
PREPARED BY: ERIN WALTERS AND JOCELYN SHOOPMAN
Associate Planner and Associate Planner
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● 408-354-6832
www.losgatosca.gov
MEETING DATE: 10/20/2022
ITEM NO: 2
DESK ITEM TOWN OF LOS GATOS
HOUSING ELEMENT ADVISORY BOARD REPORT
DATE: October 20, 2022
TO: Housing Element Advisory Board
FROM: Joel Paulson, Community Development Director
SUBJECT: Review of the HCD Draft Initial Review Housing Element that was Submitted to
HCD for Preliminary Review.
REMARKS:
Attachment 4 contains Board Member comments that will be incorporated into further
refinement of the HCD Draft Initial Review Housing Element after receiving initial feedback
from HCD. Attachment 5 contains public comments received between 11:01 a.m., Friday,
October 14, 2022, and 11:00 a.m., Thursday, October 20, 2022.
On June 7, 2022, the Town Council accepted the Site Inventory as recommended by the
Housing Element Advisory Board at their May 19, 2022, meeting. Since the June 7, 2022 Town
Council meeting, the following modifications have been made to the Site Inventory:
1. Added Site I-1, 401-409 Alberto Way as the property owner submitted a Property Owner
Interest form and a Conceptual Development Advisory Committee Application to the Town
for a mixed-use project with 54 housing units;
2. Removed 404 North Santa Cruz Avenue, 420 North Santa Cruz Avenue, and 430 North Santa
Cruz Avenue (Los Gatos Shopping Center) per the property owner’s request and therefore
deleted the North Santa Cruz Avenue Area;
3. Removed 16535 Camellia Terrace and parcel number 523-02-005 (El Gato Village) as no
Property Owner Interest form was submitted and with the addition of Site, I-1, 401-409
Alberto Way to the Site Inventory, the Town’s proposed number of housing units would
further exceed the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) and 15 percent buffe r;
4. Revised the housing density used for the calculation of projected housing units in the Site
Inventory from the maximum density to the typical density, to be consistent with the 2040
General Plan Residential Buildout;
5. Increased the housing density within the North Forty Specific Plan from 20 dwelling units per
acre to a minimum of 30 dwelling units per acre to align with Implementation Program D;
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SUBJECT: Review of the Submittal of the HCD Draft Initial Review Housing Element that
was Submitted to HCD for Preliminary Review
DATE: October 20, 2022
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REMARKS (continued):
6. Increased the maximum housing density within the Affordable Housing Overlay Zone (AHOZ)
from 20 dwelling units per acre to 40 dwelling units per acre to area to align with
Implementation Program BF;
7. Modified the distribution for each income category to be consistent with the California
Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) Housing Element Site Inventory
Guidebook, which allows jurisdictions to use a higher density (default den sity of 30 dwelling
units per acre) as a proxy for lower income affordability;
8. Created a Senate Bill 9 (SB 9) projection which accounted for 96 housing units over the eight-
year period;
9. Modified the number of housing units generated in the Pipeline Projects from 202 units to
176 units based on the creation of a new SB 9 projection, Planning applications that have
been withdrawn, and projects that have received their Certificate of Use and Occupancy;
10. Decreased the overall total number of housing unit s in the Site Inventory from 2,448 units to
2,371 units, as a result of the changes listed above, a reduction of 77 units; and
11. Created a separate Appendix H, Site Inventory Form per HCD formatting requirements,
which does not include the housing units associated with the Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU)
and SB 9 projections, as well as the Pipeline Projects. These additional housing units are
identified in Appendix D of the HCD Draft Initial Review Housing Element.
ATTACHMENTS:
Previously received with the October 20, 2022, Staff Report:
1. HCD Initial Review Draft Submittal
2. Response to Public Comments
3. Public Comments received between 11:01 a.m., Thursday, September 15, 2022, and 11:00
a.m. on Friday, October 14, 2022
Received with this Desk Item Report:
4. Board Member Comments
5. Public Comments received between 11:01 a.m., Friday, October 14, 2022, and 11:00 a.m.,
Thursday, October 20, 2022
From: Joe Mannina <>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 11:02 AM
To: Jocelyn Shoopman <jshoopman@losgatosca.gov>; Jennifer Armer <JArmer@losgatosca.gov>; Erin
Walters <EWalters@losgatosca.gov>; Joel Paulson <jpaulson@losgatosca.gov>
Subject: Few Comments on LG Draft Housing Element
Hello Again Town Staff,
I wanted to circle back on a formatting question and noticed a few potential errors to bring to your
attention.
1)From a previous message: (Your response was that "this will be considered prior to the final draft")
Should order to implements which policies column be in numerical order or in order of relevance? I
noticed that draft does not display all of these in numerical order and wanted to better understand the
final methodology for the order.
2)In Section 10.6 Implementation Programs: Programs C and G refer to policy HE 1.5 Town Resources
however there does not appear to be such a policy?
3) Program J refers to 1.7 Universal Design policy (should be changed to 1.6)
4) Program AI: Label format for "which policy" should be HE 3.1 instead of just 3.1.
5)All references to HE 2.11 should appear as Smart Growth instead of Policy Smart Growth.
6) Program AO: Change policy label from 2.10 to 2.11.
Thanks for your help with this and talk to you soon.
Joe Mannina
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From: MARY PATTERSON <>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 4:35 PM
To: Joel Paulson <jpaulson@losgatosca.gov>
Subject: Residential Development
Mr. Paulson,
I just finished reading the Los Gatan article on residential development. What a
travesty!! Houses everywhere and no stores. What are you thinking???
The traffic will be horrible and no one will be able to afford any of them because, like in
the past, they will be million dollar houses/condos which no average person can
afford. AND....it will further ruin the charm of Los Gatos. It really saddens me to see
what is happening to our "Town". We're turning it into San Jose!!
I am strongly opposed to this development!!
Mary Patterson
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