Attachment 28Jennifer Armer
From: Randy Lamb <randy@lambpartners.com>
Monday, April 02, 2018 2:47 PM Sent:
To:
Cc:
Rob Rennie; Steven Leonardis; Marcia Jensen; Marice Sayoc; BSpector
Jennifer Armer; Joel Paulson; Laurel Prevetti; Robert Schultz; Shane Arters; Alicia Guerra
(aguerra@buchalter.com); Houston, Jolie; Randy Lamb
Subject: Los Gatos Town Council -Alberto Way Project Suggestion and Comments to Neighbor
Letters
Attachments: 153948-405 Alberto Way Neighbor Presentation_04.02.18 .pdf
Hi Mayor Rennie and Council Members:
We provided you some suggestions last week to work on a compromise based on the neighbors', Mayor Rennie's and
Council Member Sayoc's comments at the last Town Council meeting on March 20th. The design suggestion:
• Reduced the building on the north side by 16 feet,
• Reduced the building size by 4,000 square feet,
• Increased the view corridor from 56 feet to 72 feet, (the current 409 building is at 77 feet but only 25 feet from
Alberto Way)
• Preserved the 125 ft setback from Alberto Way,
• Preserved the front surface parking and two amenity areas which are critical to class A users,
• Preserved the construction staging, deliveries and our ability to process 98% of our work on-site,
• Increased the north side open space/amenity area substantially (eliminated the dog park replaced by open
space for our users and neighbors),
• Reduced the excavation time by almost two days,
• Reduced the truck excavation traffic by about 400 truckloads.
We have attached some examples of this simple change to the building to accomplish the building size reduction and
corresponding preservation of a greater portion of the mountain view corridor. Dan Kirby at Arctec and his team
worked on this to ensure this is both attainable structurally, but also that the building frontage is properly balanced.
We respectfully request of you that (assuming and after) Council approves our project, that the small change be handled
by Joel Paulson and his staff. Joel confirmed that he is comfortable doing this, as well as in finalizing landscape screening
and tree placement in front of the building to further break up the massing and preserve the western mountain views.
We did reach out to the Alberto Way neighbor representatives last week, and Shane Arters along with our architect, Dan
Kirby met with four of the neighborhood HOA representatives to discuss our site and ideas for the north side in response
to the comments at the prior Council meeting. It is hard to tell if we made any progress or compromise, but the meeting
was amicable, and it opened up the lines of communication.
Finally, we did review the neighbor comments in the staff report, most comments if not all are the same as in prior
letters and emails to you, and that there were only a few items that we should respond too. The pictures the neighbors
took were quite misleading, many taken from 2-3 feet off the ground, (not at human view from the sidewalk either in
front of or across the street from our site).
Please email or call with any questions, both on this email contents as well as on the attached drawings.
Thank you and we look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow.
Randy and Shane ATTACHMENT 28
Randy Lamb
535 Middlefield Road, Suite 190
Menlo Park , CA 94025
650-208-4195 mobile
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650-326-1661 fax
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Shane Arters <shane@lambpartners.com>
Tuesday, April 03, 2018 10:07 AM
Jennifer Armer
Randy Lamb; Alicia Guerra (Aguerra@buchalter.com)
FW: 405 Alberto Way -Applicant Response to A meeting between Shane Arters and
representatives from Los Gatos Commons and Pueblo de Los Gatos
Below is our response to Jean Jones' email.
Sincerely,
Shane Arters
-----0 rigi nal Message-----
F rom: Shane Arters
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2018 1:35 PM
To: 'Jean Farren Jones' <jfjones39@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: Email to Shane
Hi Jean,
Thank you for your email, but I think there may be some confusion. There is no new offer or proposal to the Council or
Town Staff from LP Acquisitions.
As we explained in our March 21st letter to the Town, we came up with some suggestions to respond to the neighbor's
comments as well as the Council's comments at the March 20th meeting. So, we provided the Town Council a couple of
suggestions last week that we'd be willing to expand the property's northern view corridor by pulling back our proposed
building's northern side by another 16 feet. This improvement positions our proposed building to within a few feet of
the current or existing 409 building setback from the northern property line which could result in a further reduction of
4,000 square feet. As a result, this increases the view corridor from 56 feet to 72 feet.
Additionally, we did suggest to the Town Council that we'd like to eliminate the dog park and increase the north side
open space/ amenity area substantially for our users and the neighbors. All other project proposed improvements,
conditions and TOM benefits would still be included and not removed from our plan.
We sent our letter to the Town so that both the Council and the neighbors would have an opportunity to consider our
suggestions in response to the Council's prior questions in anticipation of Tuesday's meeting.
I hope this clarifies any confusion you and the Commons Board may have about the nature or our response to the
Council. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have further questions.
Sincerely,
Shane
-----Original Message-----
From: Jean Farren Jones <jfjones39@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2018 5:08 PM
To: Shane Arters <shane@lambpartners.com>
Subject: Email to Shane
The Board of Directors at The Commons would like to meet with you to negotiate a possible compromise with regard to
aspects of the proposed project at 405 Alberto Way. We wish you had discussed your offer of a 4,000 square feet
reduction with us before offering it to the Town Council, but we are willing to talk about that and other issues. Our one
condition for negotiation is that your request to the town to send your 70,000 square feet proposal to staff for review be
rescinded. The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday. Some time will be needed to discuss how to resolve our differences and
we want to see a more complete design and have the opportunity to comment on it publicly in a council hearing.
We propose that we meet before Tuesday night to see if a compromise is possible and, if so, inform Jennifer on Tuesday
so that the Town Council will be aware that we are in negotiation.
Sincerely,
Jean Farren Jones, President
Los Gatos Commons
Board of Directors
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