Item 3 - Desk Item with Exhibits.110 Wood Road
PREPARED BY: SEAN MULLIN, AICP
Senior Planner
Reviewed by: Planning Manager and Community Development Director
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● 408-354-6874
www.losgatosca.gov
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
PLANNING COMMISSION
REPORT
MEETING DATE: 01/12/2022
ITEM NO: 3
DESK ITEM
DATE: January 12, 2022
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Joel Paulson, Community Development Director
SUBJECT: Requesting Approval of a Planned Development for Construction of a Senior
Living Community, Removal of Large Protected Trees, and Site Improvements
Requiring a Grading Permit on Property Zoned R:PD. Located at 110 Wood
Road. APN 510-47-038. Planned Development Application PD-20-001 and
Environmental Impact Report EIR-21-002. APPLICANT: Rockwood Pacific.
PROPERTY OWNER: Covia Communities. PROJECT PLANNER: Sean Mullin.
REMARKS:
Exhibit 18 includes additional site plan diagrams provided by the applicant. Exhibit 19 includes
additional public comments received between 11:01 a.m., Tuesday, January 11, 2022 and 11:00
a.m., Wednesday, January 12, 2022.
EXHIBITS:
Previously received under separate cover:
1. May 2021 Draft Environmental Impact Report (available online at
www.losgatosca.gov/110WoodRoad)
2. September 2021 Final Environmental Impact Report and Mitigation Monitoring and
Reporting Program (available online at www.losgatosca.gov/110WoodRoad)
Previously received with the January 12, 2022 Staff Report:
3. Location Map
4. Required Findings
5. Required CEQA Findings of Fact
6. Conceptual Development Advisory Committee Staff Report, April 9, 2018
7. Conceptual Development Advisory Committee meeting minutes, April 9, 2018
8. Project Description and Letter of Justification, January 3, 2022
PAGE 2 OF 2
SUBJECT: 110 Wood Road/PD-20-001 AND EIR-21-002
JANUARY 12, 2022
EXHIBITS (continued):
9. Town’s Consulting Architect Report, May 8, 2020
10. Applicant’s response to Town’s Consulting Architect recommendations, May 22, 2020
11. Arborist Report by Hort Science, October 12, 2020
12. Town's Consulting Arborist peer review report, February 12, 2021
13. Supplemental community engagement letter, December 9, 2021
14. Public comments received by 11:00 a.m., Friday, January 7, 2022
15. Planned Development Ordinance with Exhibit A Rezone Area and Exhibit B Development
Plans, July 27, 2021
Previously received with the January 12, 2022 Addendum Report:
16. Supplemental community engagement letter with visualizations, January 11, 2022
17. Public comments received between 11:01 a.m., Friday, January 7, 2022 and 11:00 a.m.,
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Received with this Desk Item Report:
18. Site plan diagrams
19. Public comments received between 11:01 a.m., Tuesday, January 11, 2022 and 11:00 a.m.,
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Assets and resource for local
seniors
EXHIBIT 18
A
B
C
F
DE
G
H
DEVELOPMENT AREA
EXISTING PROPOSED
2
(547’)(540’)
(547’)
(537’)
(537’)(530’)(537’)
(537’)
(519’)
529’)(520’)
(512’)
(547’)
EXISTING ELEVATIONS
571’VILLA HEIGHTS
3
(547’)(540’)
(547’)
(537’)
(537’)(530’)(537’)
(537’)
(519’)
529’)(520’)
(512’)
(547’)
EXISTING ELEVATIONS
571’VILLA HEIGHTS
4
+23’
+20’
+24’
+10’
+3’
+6’
+20’
+6’
+27’
+13’
+19’
+3’
+16’
BY ELEVATION
TERRACE LEVEL
REDUCED BY 7’
-15’
-25’-25’
-39’
-30’
-32’
571’HEIGHT COMPARISONS
5
+23’
+20’
+24’
+10’
+20’
+27’
+19’
+16’
BY ELEVATION
TERRACE LEVEL
REDUCED BY 7’
-15’
-25’-25’
-39’
-30’
-32’
571’HEIGHT COMPARISONS
6
-----Original Message-----
From: Esther Grant <>
To: smullin@losgatosca.gov <smullin@losgatosca.gov>
Sent: Tue, Jan 11, 2022 11:25 am
Subject: Fwd: Planed Development App.PD-20-001. APN 510-47-038
Sean,
If you want to get a prospective view(this project for PD20=001, that can be seen all
over Los Gatos), go out to Main St. from your Planning Office, turn left onto Main, drive
about a block and a half, look to your left, toward the foothills, until you see a"Massive
Complex with Orange Flag's blowing in the wind. Now imagine living behind or
surrounding this, your view is now only this structure, you will have to go through
massive removal of beautiful tree'e, massive grading, massive construction, equipment
noise , gas smell(dirt, dust),..... etc. You will not have the serene, open green space
next to you, the quite, peaceful, Loas Gatos is gone! How would you like to live like
that?
Esther Grant
From: Esther Grant <>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2021 1:18 PM
To: Sean Mullin <SMullin@losgatosca.gov>
Subject: Planed Development App.PD-20-001. APN 510-47-038
EXTERNAL SENDER
Project Planner Sean Mullin,
I Esther Grant(Wincott), ., Los Gatos., my property along with 50 and 100
clifton ave., are connected to(Meadows) 110 Wood Road. At the lower right of the map
you will see "Wood Road", you can also see the top of Wood Road!" MY property is
located behind the Meadows at the prior Rose Garden, and some of the existing
apartment's. Our properties are also joined to "The Meadows Open Space", Green
space. My concern is not only the visual, but the hazard to protected wild life, we(the
Meadows) has Eagle's, Falcon's, Red tailed Hawk's(on our properties), just to name a
few. We do not want "story Poles, extended flag poles, any poles with netting on them,
to snag any birds"!
You can adjust the map size, at the top of the map.
EXHIBIT 19
I have two regular PG&E pole's, that is connected to a third pole at 110 Wood Road, the
middle pole on my property connects to three sub poles, that provides our
(Clifton) PG&E electricity. See PG&E right away on . The S/E,
PG&E right/away continues to 110 Wood Road, to service the third pole. I would not
want any of the proposed poles to jeopardize my land, Bird's, PG&E pole's.
Thank You for your consideration,
Esther Grant
From: Esther Grant <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 8:40 AM
To: Sean Mullin <SMullin@losgatosca.gov>
Subject: Fwd:
EXTERNAL SENDER
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Weisz <MWeisz@losgatosca.gov>
To: Esther Grant <>
Cc: Sean Mullin <SMullin@losgatosca.gov>; Corvell Sparks <CSparks@losgatosca.gov>
Sent: Tue, Jan 11, 2022 4:35 pm
Subject: RE: Fwd:
Good afternoon Esther,
Thank you for your email. The setbacks for the proposed development, as compared to the
original/existing setbacks, are tabulated on Page 5 of 16 of the staff report. This table also
includes the percentage of original and proposed open space. I have Cc’d Sean Mullin in case
there is any additional information that he may have.
Thanks,
Mike
Mike Weisz, P.E. ● Senior Civil Engineer
Parks and Public Works Department ● 41 Miles Avenue, Los Gatos CA 95030
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From: Esther Grant <>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 4:07 PM
To: Mike Weisz <MWeisz@losgatosca.gov>
Subject: Fwd:
EXTERNAL SENDER
Senior Civil Engineer, Mike Weisz,
The Los Gatos Medows, 110 Wood Road, is Planning a redevelopment project, application
number PD20-001, the planning commission will be holding a hearing on January 12, to
consider the project. The existing complex is already overbuilt, and has an open area(green
area), that is next to and property, and along side of s
properties, and extends to Wood Rd. The project is triple the size of the current construction, it
will have an underground parking, expand and replace all the two story apartments, with five
story apartment's. I was under the impression that when a property development was overbuilt
that an open space had to be provided, there is such a space behind the Los Gatos Medows
currently, but according to the Planning Department, Project Planner Sean Mullin's, about 94
tree's have already been removed and 140 more tree's are scheduled for removal? The
expansion size of he building's plan is to "remove large protected tree's", this way they can have
their five story buildings right up to the property line,'s further blocking the view from the
surrounding properties(like the CarrIage House Apartments, at 31 Clifton Ave., that will now
have a view of a five story building's. The impact of just building(noise, gas powred equipment)
this massive complex, let alone all the traffic from apartment owner's will generate from entering
on Wood Rd.,(behind the Toll House Hotel, and also from removing sound barrier tree's) and
exiting onto Broadway. Are the Land Developer's allowed to construct five story building's up to
the property line? Can these Developer's overbuild without a open space(Green Space)? The
time frame for the project hearing is tomorrow at 11:30 A.M., for comment's.
Thank you,
Esther Grant