Item2.Desk Item with Attachment 6
PREPARED BY: Jocelyn Shoopman and Erin Walters
Associate Planner and Associate Planner
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● 408-354-6832
www.losgatosca.gov
MEETING DATE: 06/15/2023
ITEM NO: 2
DESK ITEM
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
HOUSING ELEMENT ADVISORY BOARD REPORT
DATE: June 15, 2023
TO: Housing Element Advisory Board
FROM: Joel Paulson, Community Development Director
SUBJECT: Review and Discuss the California Department of Housing and Community
Development’s (HCD) Findings/Comment Letter Received by the Town on May
30, 2023, and Possible Modifications to the Town’s Draft Revised Housing
Element.
REMARKS:
Attachment 6 contains public comments received between 11:01 a.m., Wednesday, June 14,
2023, and 11:00 a.m., Thursday, June 15, 2023.
ATTACHMENTS:
Previously Received with the June 15, 2023, Staff Report:
1. January 12, 2023, HCD Findings/Comment Letter
2. April 14, 2023, HCD Findings/Comment Letter
3. May 30, 2023, HCD Findings/Comment Letter
4. Draft Response Table to HCD’s Findings/Comment Letter
Previously Received with the June 14, 2023, Addendum Report:
5. Public Comments received between 11:01 a.m., Friday, June 9, 2023, and 11:00 a.m.,
Wednesday, June 14, 2023.
Received with this Desk Item Report:
6. Public Comments received between 11:01 a.m., Wednesday, June 14, 2023, and 11:00 a.m.,
Thursday, June 15, 2023.
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Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2023 10:48 AM
To: Wendy Wood <WWood@losgatosca.gov>
Cc: Phil Koen <>; Rick Van Hoesen <>; Housing
Element <HEUpdate@losgatosca.gov>; Town Manager <Manager@losgatosca.gov>; Maria Ristow
<MRistow@losgatosca.gov>; Planning <Planning@losgatosca.gov>
Subject: Failing to pass the Housing Element a third time is not an option
Hi Wendy,
Would you please include the following as a desk item for tonight’s HEAB meeting, ITEM 2.
Thanks,
Jak
HEAB Members,
Hopefully you have received, read and digested our recommendations to get the Housing
Element over the goal line and passed well before our next critical deadline. This Town belongs
to all of us and your success at this point will stop the bleeding. If not stopped by 1/31/24, the
consequences will be dire (see the attached highlighted document re consequences as written
by the HCD)
Unfortunately, missing the deadlines has now given us at least (3) SB 330 and Builder's Remedy
applications. We'll be very surprised if we don't see more. The three applications that we know
of currently are:
1.101 So Santa Cruz (the current post office) that has an application for 5 stories
with 72 condominiums and 3000 Sq. ft. of retail
2.The North Forty has filed for ~437 multi-family, townhouse, affordable units plus
~19K of retail, 88 affordable - possibly up to 90' height!
3.405 Alberto Way filed for 60 multi-family units with mixed use. It changed from
office to condominiums in 2022.
There is potential for more SB 330’s or Builders Remedies to pop up. The advantage to the
developer is faster development with fewer restrictions. For details, go here.
Our number one concern is that you develop a viable timeline that is monitored closely, at least
on a monthly basis. We have not seen one yet and feel that was a big reason that the goal of
passing a Housing Element has failed twice.
As mentioned above and shown in the attached, failure is not an option. The next penalties are
real bone crushers.
ATTACHMENT 6
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