Attachment 14 - Public Comment received 1101 Oct. 3, 2017 to 1100 Nov. 10, 2017From: Jan Olsen [ma ilto:lg ca jan @gmail.com]
Sent: Thursd ay, November 09 , 20 17 3 :02 PM
To: Marica Sayoc; Rob Rennie ; Marcia Jensen; Steven Leonardis; BSpector; Town Manager
Subject: North 20 Desires from People Who Live Near There
Hi. I am Jan Olsen. I live on Lester Lane, right behind the Office Depot and across from
the North 40 .
I have attended meetings re: the N40 for the past 23 years . One of the basic tenets
driving the Specific Plan is supposed to be that it addressed the needs of the local
neighbors. I have heard many different ideas from neighbors over the years and I know
that we have not been polled about what we would like.
So, I threw it out there on nextdoor.com. These are the responses I got. That said, I
would have like to have asked this a few times as I only got the audience who saw it
once. Perhaps the town would like to actually ask us before a final decision is made??
Restaurant -sit down that is not very ex pensive. This was mentioned several times .
Family friendly is important.
Movie Theater -we would love to be able to walk to dinner and a movie. I heard this
several times also.
Women's clothes and shoes (of course!!)
A bookstore!!
Some quotes:
"I'd love a few affordable restaurants that I could walk to and then be able to safely
walk home. And I agree about downtown (original post - I don't want to go downtown
for a restaurant or clothes. I go outside LG . If they want to keep my money and sales
tax, I would spend my money on .... ). It would be nice to have a cente r area like
Santana Row with the chess pieces and places to sit and people watch."
"Movie theater would be amazingly nice. I like stuff t o do rather than just merchandise
to buy as well. I can only own just so many shirts and shorts."
"A used bookstore would be fun, too."
"What about community rooms for groups to us e . There's a meetup for machine
kn itters that I want to go to, but it's never convenient, and I'm sure there's other
groups that would like to have a place to mee t."
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"I second that an independent bookstore would be great, especially after losing Vil lage
Books downtown."
"We could also use some hea lthy take out opt ions nearby. I see their plans include a
small market and commun ity garden, which would be fantast ic. A yoga studio may be
nice as well."
"Craft Coffee Shop -Somewhere to read/study/socia lize/work."
11 Good food (not the same restaurants in Downtown LG, Campbell, and Willow Glen) -
someth ing unique"
"From Mercury News "There is a great need for a hotel that has meeti ng facil ities for
Netflix and all this other stuff within the area," resident Rod Teague said. "So, I 'm
asking that we cut back the commerc ial/reta il to a maximum of 300,000 square feet,
and that 's with a 200,000-square-foot hotel and a maximum of 100,000 square feet for
retail and office." Smart move .. this is a big space that's be ing developed .. boutique
resta urants, book stores will follow only if the big plan is good .. "
"I ag ree with the bookstore and movie theater! I wou ld love to see some un ique
restaurants that aren't uber expensive and are possibly family friendly!"
"Some shops wou ld be nice as well, but not Chane l and Louis Vuitton ... more small
boutiques and maybe a CA made or Northern CA made marketp lace -where yo u can
purchase items that were made in CA."
"Somewhere that we could walk to with our family/dog and hang out."
"Plan says mi xed use development which usually means Condos on second and third
floo r and they are not go ing to be cheap .. so we are already pr icing out t he sma ll shops
on first floor. Its looking like more and more, we are getting a Santana Row type
development.wh ich means on ly big stores can afford first floor deve lopments ... Maybe
with a big hotel, they can allow smaller shops(book store, food, coffee shop) on the
vicinity which is what the consensus of people here want.."
"The hotel aspect will be the focal point and all else built arou nd the hotel. The hotel
can be the draw for folks coming into Los Gatos to experience the many local wineries,
the nearby golf courses and local shops and restaurants already established in town.
New shops and restaurants (that are affordable) will also bring in revenue and life back
into our town . We are losing a great deal of business revenue to our neighboring towns
who are welcoming in affordab le shops and restaurants that maintain repeat and loyal
customers."
"It doesn't bring in revenue, so unlikely the town would go for it, but a new park for all
the kids would be great and we need more well maintained sports playing fields in this
area."
"The N20 will not compete with downtown as we are closer to Campbell and San Jose,
so that's where we go spend our dollars. We would love to spend our money in LG if it
is more convenient."
I believe the surrounding neighborhoods should be polled to see what we would like to
see in the N20 before you finalize the amendments to the Specific Plan. We are the
most effected and the least heard .
Thanks for listening now.
Jan Blair Olsen
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