Item 2 - Draft Minutes of the July 10, 2024 Planning Commission Meeting110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● 408-354-6832
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TOWN OF LOS GATOS
PLANNING COMMISSION
REPORT
MEETING DATE: 07/24/2024
ITEM NO: 2
DRAFT
MINUTES OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING
JULY 10, 2024
The Planning Commission of the Town of Los Gatos conducted a Regular Meeting on
Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at 7:00 p.m.
MEETING CALLED TO ORDER AT 7:00 PM
ROLL CALL
Present: Chair Steve Raspe, Commissioner Jeffrey Barnett, Commissioner Susan Burnett,
Commissioner Kathryn Janoff, and Commissioner Adam Mayer.
Absent: Vice Chair Emily Thomas, Commissioner Melanie Hanssen.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS
None.
CONSENT ITEMS (TO BE ACTED UPON BY A SINGLE MOTION)
None.
PUBLIC HEARINGS
1.17020 Los Cerritos Drive
Architecture and Site Application S-24-005
APN 532-21-012 and -013
Applicant: David Fox
Property Owner: Sandra Campbell
Project Planner: Erin Walters
Requesting approval for site improvements (retaining walls) requiring a Grading Permit
on property zoned HR-1. Categorically exempt pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section
15304: Minor Alterations to Land.
Erin Walters, Associate Planner, presented the staff report.
Opened Public Comment.
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David Fox, Applicant
-We took this project over at the owner’s request so we could get re-approval from the
Planning Commission. Nothing has changed on the property; no work has been done since
the Stop Work Order. The scope of the project has not changed, and if the Commission
approves this application, we have Building Permits that are still in force, but we need
Planning Commission approval to reinstate the lapsed planning approval. The owner is not
asking for anything that was not approved previously.
Closed Public Comment.
Commissioners discussed the matter.
Opened Public Comment.
Commissioners asked questions of the applicant.
Closed Public Comment.
MOTION: Motion by Chair Raspe to approve site improvements (retaining walls)
that require a Grading Permit and an Architecture and Site application,
and to modify the plans in the Driveway Area to include an increase in
the height of the front retaining wall from what is proposed to seven feet
with two feet of soil and plantings banked in front of the seven-foot tall
wall where the existing wall is 12 feet tall, so at no point along the
existing wall no more than five feet of retaining wall is exposed, and to
modify Condition of Approval #39 in Exhibit 3 to state, “All grading
activities and operations shall be in compliance with Section III of the
Town’s Hillside Development Standards and Guidelines except as allowed
by the exceptions granted with the approved application” for 17020 Los
Cerritos Drive. Seconded by Commissioner Janoff.
VOTE: Motion passed unanimously.
OTHER BUSINESS
REPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Jennifer Armer, Planning Manager
•The Town has received certification of its Housing Element from HCD.
SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS/COMMISSION MATTERS
None.
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ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 7:33 p.m.
This is to certify that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of the minutes of the
July 10, 2024 meeting as approved by the
Planning Commission.
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/s/ Vicki Blandin
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