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San Bruno Planning Commission Meeting August 17, 2010 2. Communications
B
B
Also
within
communications
people
at
home,
you
can
find
the
packets
at
plan
at
san
bruno
CA
gov
under
the
community
development
section,
the
packets,
their
staff
reports
minutes.
And
finally,
we
inadvertently
left
off
a
presentation
tonight:
housing
leadership,
chris
moore
from
housing.
Leadership
council
is
here
it's
a
great
group
locally
that
promote
housing
issues
and
affordable
housing
issues
with
in
San
Mateo
County
I've
been
fortunate
enough
to
participate
in
a
couple.
Events
that
they've
had
recently
and
Chris
will
give
a
presentation
of
some
of
the
stuff
that
they're
up
to
okay.
C
And
headquartered
next
door
in
south
san
francisco,
and
we
have
been
working
for
several
years
on
our
platform
of
policies
that
encourage
housing
development
to
help
serve
our
communities
needs,
and
we
decided
we've
spent
all
this
time,
crafting
the
wording
of
our
policies.
We'd
like
to
get
out
to
policymakers
than
just
like.
No,
so
just
briefly
about
us,
we
were
founded
in
2001
and
our
mission
is
to
accelerate
the
creation
of
housing
at
all
affordability
levels,
to
increase
opportunity
and
create
a
great
quality
of
life.
C
We
want
to
see
good
projects
come
to
life
and
for
us
it's
not
just
about
quantity,
although
we
believe
we
need
more
homes
on
the
peninsula,
but
it's
also
about
quality
and
creating
livable
walkable
communities,
and
so
some
of
the
things
we
do
are
to
organize
our
membership
base
of
about
a
hundred
organizations
and
about
40
to
50
individuals
who
also
care
about
the
issue,
recruit
and
train
local
leaders
and
promote
the
kind
of
quality
development
we
want
to
see.
We
also
have
a
couple
of
events.
I
want
to
mention
housing
leadership
day.
C
C
We
also
provide
staffing
to
the
housing
endowment
and
regional
trust
heart,
which
is
the
county's
housing
trust
fund.
It's
a
joint
powers
agreement
and
all
20
cities,
including
San
Bruno,
as
well
as
the
county,
our
members
and
that
entity
helped
provide
some
of
the
financing
for
the
village
at
the
crossing
and
we
also
have
a
homebuyer
program.
Our
next
newsletter
is
going
to
feature
one
of
the
home
buyers
who
was
able
to
purchase
a
house
next
to
his
parents
house
here
in
San
Bruno,
where
he
grew
up.
C
We
also
endorse
developments
that
meet
our
criteria
and
advance
our
vision,
so
I've
provided
copies
of
the
full
wording
of
our
platform
to
the
Commission.
If
you
want
to
go
through
those
at
your
leisure
I'll.
Just
briefly
summarize
these
things
for
these
purposes
right
now,
one
of
our
goals
is
to
encourage
mixed
income
housing
and
just
a
couple
years
ago,
san
bruno
passed
in
inclusionary
housing,
ordinance
requiring
a
certain
portion
of
new
units
created,
be
set
aside
at
slightly
lower
rates
for
middle
and
lower-income
families
where
appropriate.
C
We
believe
that
single
room
occupancy,
the
smaller
type
of
units
is
an
appropriate
use,
especially
in
denser
downtown
areas,
and
we
believe
each
jurisdiction
has
a
responsibility
to
try
and
meet
its
fair
share
of
the
regional
need
for
housing,
as
determined
by
the
state
of
California
and
association
of
Bay
Area
governments
and
the
last
time
that
I
heard
Bay.
Area
Council
gave
San
Bruno
an
A
plus
a
couple
years
ago
because
of
all
the
good
work
you've
been
doing,
especially
with
the
crossings.
Master
plan.
C
You've
really
been
a
leader
in
the
peninsula
for
that
we
support
accessibility
of
housing
for
disabled
people
and
making
sure
that
design
makes
those
units
available
and
accessible
to
people
with
physical
challenges.
Child
care
is
an
important
need
for
families
in
our
community,
and
so
jurisdiction
should
do
what
they
can
to
make
sure
that
the
supply
of
child
care
matches
the
demand,
especially
if
we're
adding
housing
units,
sometimes
there's
a
bit
of
a
conflict
between
housing
preferences
and
housing.
C
Commercial
linkage
fees
are
a
way
that
some
jurisdictions
have
of
addressing
the
need
for
housing
created
by
new
job
growth,
and
we
want
to
keep
the
economy
vibrant
and
get
back
on
track
with
job
growth
and
when
we
do,
of
course,
that
creates
demand
for
housing
and
some
jurisdictions
have
adopted
a
fee
on
commercial
development
that
helps
mitigate
the
impact
on
the
housing
market.
Around
land
use
tax
policy
as
policymakers,
you
know
how
unbalanced
state
and
local
fiscal
relationships
have
been.
C
So
we're
nonprofit
with
a
brief
to
work
across
all
of
San
Mateo
County,
and
this
county
actually
has
a
really
good
practice
of
collaboration
and
cooperation,
starting
with
the
city
county
association
of
governments,
working
on
transportation
policy
and
in
the
last
couple
of
years,
working
on
the
housing
element
in
the
sub
regional
approach
to
the
regional
housing
need
allocation
and
the
21
elements,
collaboration
I
think,
has
been
an
effective
way
to
leverage
public
resources
and
just
today
in
fact,
there
was
a
tour
that
the
21
elements-
collaboration,
organized
I,
understand
mr.
Ackman
went
on
it.
C
C
I
referred
earlier
to
commercial
development,
linkage
fees,
but
just
we
encourage
jurisdictions
to
look
at
the
balance
of
jobs
and
housing
to
make
sure
that
not
all
growth
is
concentrated
in
the
commercial
sector,
but
that
the
people
who
work
in
those
jobs
also
have
a
chance
to
live
in
the
community
near
where
they
work.
We
recently
adopted
a
statement
about
our
preferred
pattern
of
development,
which
is
around
livable
walkable
communities.
I
think
that
the
work
you're
doing
around
the
transportation
quarter
and
the
downtown
plan
is
absolutely
what
we're
talking
about
there,
because
you
have
caltrain.
C
You
have
bart
and
trying
to
leverage
that
opportunity
for
a
changing
housing
market
where
elderly
folks
we
had
a
meeting
in
millbrae
just
the
other
night
and
even
during
the
introductions.
One
of
the
older
participants
said:
we've
got
to
do
something
about
us,
older
folks,
living
up
in
the
hills
and
we
can't
drive
as
much
as
we
used
to
and
we
need
a
place
to
be
able
to
go
so.
Obviously,
the
again
the
village
at
the
crossing
is
an
example
of
that.
C
As
part
of
the
housing
element
process,
you
have
to
identify
obstacles
to
development,
and
so
we
encourage
you
to
look
at
streamlining
of
processes
and
make
it
a
little
easier.
Obviously,
regulation
to
protect
quality
of
life
and
our
environment
is
important,
but
at
the
same
time,
are
there
other
things
that
you
can
look
at
to
to
improve
the
process.
Parking
requirements
are
a
big
one.
C
We
go
to
public
hearings
across
the
county
and
always
number
one
issue
is
there's
not
enough
parking
or
it's
going
to
create
traffic
if
you
build
here,
but
especially
when
you're
locating
closer
to
public
transit
like
Cal
training
of
our
study
after
study
by
the
Metropolitan,
Transportation,
Commission
and
others
have
shown,
car
ownership
really
is
lower
in
those
areas.
So
I
think
we
need
to
stay
with
the
data
on
cases
like
that
and
see.
C
If
there
are
times
when
you
could
reduce
the
parking
ratio
and
still
have
a
viable
project,
we
like
to
see
development
go
where
the
existing
public
infrastructure
is.
Obviously
we
don't
want
to
cover
our
beautiful
hills
at
this
point
and
fill
in
our
open
space,
so
we're
looking
at
these
more
compact
livable
areas.
So
that
concludes
my
presentation,
presentation
and
I
very
much
appreciate
your
time
and
attention
Thank.