Item 2 - Exhibit 10 - Community Workshop 2 SummaryCommunity Workshop #2 Summary
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Community Workshop #2: Land Use Alternatives
Thursday January 16, 2020
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Fisher Middle School Library
Los Gatos, CA
On Thursday, January 16, 2020, the Town hosted the second community workshop on the General Plan
update to inform the community about the General Plan update process and solicit feedback related to
the Land Use Alternatives Report. The Community Workshop included an introductory presentation by
the consultant team on where we are in the General Plan update process, an overview of the Land Use
Alternatives Report, and a discussion of the next steps.
Attendees were provided a similar presentation to that provided to the General Plan Advisory
Committee (GPAC) on December 12, 2019. The presentation highlighted the importance of the land use
alternatives process in the General Plan update and the steps the GPAC, Town staff, and Consultant
team took to develop the set of alternatives and associated analysis presented in the Alternatives
Report. At the conclusion of the presentation, attendees were able to ask questions on the process and
results of the Land Use Alternatives Report. Attendees were then able to walk through a series of
stations with informative boards and an interactive survey highlighting the process and results of the
Land Use Alternatives Report.
This workshop format was set up as an open house which allowed for more one-on-one interaction and
dialogue between attendees, Town staff, and the consultant team. Following the workshop, the
PowerPoint presentation, informational posters, and the survey were uploaded to the General Plan
website (losgatos2040.com) to allow community members who were not able to attend in person the
ability to participate and provide feedback. The online engagement exercises were active from January
17 – January 29, 2020.
The following is an overview of the public comments and feedback from both the workshop and online
engagement, as of January 29, 2020.
Community Workshop #2 Survey
The survey provided at the community workshop and on the General Plan website consisted of a series
of 10 questions. These questions focused on the identification and selection of Opportunity Areas as
well as input on the range of, allowable density, building height, and housing product types.
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Community Workshop #2 Survey Results
The following includes all feedback collected at both the workshop and online related to the Land Use
Alternatives Survey.
The only additional area identified by attendees was inclusion of the Downtown area, highlighted in red
below.
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The graph above shows the number of persons that thought that Opportunity Area should be removed
from the alternatives considered.
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0.5
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1.5
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2.5
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4
Los Gatos
Boulevard
Hardwood
Road
Pollard Road Lark Avenue Union Avenue North Santa
Cruz Avenue
Winchester
Avenue
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SELECTED: 4 times SELECTED: 4 times
SELECTED: 7 times
SELECTED: 7 times
SELECTED: 5 times Townhomes Condominiums Multiple Detached Single-Family Units Duplex/Triplex/Fourplex Apartments
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The following are the maps that attendees completed at the workshop. At the time of the completion of
the Staff Report for the GPAC Meeting, no maps were completed as part of the online engagement.
SELECTED: 5 times SELECTED: 3 times
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The following numbers in the table show how many times the option was selected.
Yes No Not sure/no opinion
Duplex 5 3 0
Triplex 4 4 0
Fourplex 2 6 0
SELECTED:
2 times
SELECTED:
2 times
SELECTED:
1 time
SELECTED:
1 time
SELECTED:
1 time
SELECTED:
1 time
SELECTED:
4 times
SELECTED:
2 times
SELECTED:
1 time
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The following numbers in the table show how many times the option was selected.
Please identify the Elks Lodge properly as High Density Residential (HDR). Currently the map
shows it as Low Density Residential (LDR). What a coincidence it is located directly across
from the “The Bay Club”.
Make the former lot high density residential at the corner of Los Gatos-Almaden at Los
Gatos Blvd.
There are current issues with traffic congestion, and I anticipate more upon the completion
of the project at LG Boulevard and Lark. Parking is constrained at all stores. We do not have
the infrastructure to accommodate large increases to the population. Los Gatos is a town,
not a city with multi-storied buildings.
Alternative A 3
Alternative B 2
Alternative C 1
Alternative D 2
None of the Above 0