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From YouTube: JAN 12, 2022 | Planning Commission Study Session
Description
City of San José, California
Planning Commission Study Session meeting, January 12, 2022.
This public meeting will be conducted via Zoom Webinar. For information on public participation via Zoom, please refer to the linked meeting agenda below.
Agenda https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=922222&GUID=ABBF11CC-67EB-4D25-84A5-74C78DC21FC1
A
A
A
A
A
It
looks
like
we
only
have
four
commissioners
present.
Actually
we
just
hit
five,
so
we
don't
have
quorum
yet,
but
I
did
get
a
response
from
about
10
commissioners
that
they'll
be
joining.
If
you
want
to
wait
a
few
minutes.
B
Let's
get
the
procedural
part
done
and
then,
if
they
get
there,
then
we'll,
let's
test
that
all
right
good
evening,
everyone,
my
name,
is
well
first
of
all,
happy
new
year,
everyone
good
to
see
everyone
again,
commissioners,
wise
love,
the
hat,
I'm
gonna,
probably
get
one
for
myself
good
evening.
My
name
is
rolando
bonini.
I
am
the
chair
of
the
san
jose
planning
commission.
Welcome
to
the
planning
commission
study
session
meeting.
The
meeting
is
being
held
via
zoom
conference
call
due
to
the
covet
19
crisis.
B
Members
of
the
public
may
participate
by
following
the
instructions
listed
on
the
agenda.
You
may
also
view
and
listen
to
the
meeting
on
live
stream,
cable,
tv
granite
course
and
youtube
following
roll
call
during
summary
of
hearing
procedure,
we'll
review
how
the
public
may
provide
comment
during
today's
session
for
now
bonilla
here,
casey
here
come
here.
B
C
B
Perfect,
thank
you.
So
let
the
record
reflected
as
of
right
now,
garcia,
yes
and
torrance
are
absent.
I
think
I
think
that's
everyone
we'll
still
keep
going
with
the
submarine
and
we'll
circle
back
jennifer,
summary
of
hearing
procedures.
The
procedure
for
this
hearing
is
as
follows:
the
city
staff
will
call
out
names
of
the
public
who
identified
that
they
want
to
speak.
B
You
may
identify
yourself
by
the
raised
hand,
feature
on
zoom
click,
star
9
on
your
phone
or
you
may
call
408,
535,
3505
or
email
planning,
support
staff
at
san
jose
ca.gov
and
identify
your
name
phone
number.
And
what
item
or
items
you'd
like
to
speak
on,
as
your
name
is
called
city
staff
will
unmute
you
to
speak
after
we
confirm
your
audio
is
working.
Your
allotted
time
will
begin.
Each
speaker
will
have
two
minutes.
Speakers
using
a
translator
will
have
four
minutes
planning.
B
Commissioners
may
ask
questions
of
the
speakers
response
to
commissioner
questions
will
not
reduce
the
speaker's
time
allowance
staff
will
unmute
the
speaker
to
respond
to
the
commissioner.
The
public
hearing
will
then
be
closed
and
the
planning
commission
will
take
action
on
the
item.
The
planning
commission
may
request
staff
to
respond
to
the
public
testimony.
B
A
Oh
chairmania,
thank
you
just
as
a
point
of
order
for
study
sessions,
where
you
don't
are
not
making
any
decision,
you
do
not
need
a
quorum
to
move
forward.
So
in
the
event
that
we
didn't
have
the
other
two
commissioners
just
join
us.
You
could
have
moved
forward
and
that
is
consistent
with
the
brown
act
and
it's
an
article
three
section,
four
of
your
bylaws.
B
And-
and
it
was
about
to
be
consistent
with
the
rolanda
bonina
act,
because
that's
what
we're
gonna
probably
do
anyway,
so
thank
you
for
that
vera.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
all
right
with
that.
We
are
now
moving
on
to
item
two
public
comment
staff.
Do
we
have
any
speakers
for
public
comment
items
not
on
the
planning
commission
study
session
agenda?
Do
we
have
any.
A
I
do
see
one
hand
raise
eric.
Is
this
a
comment
for
an
item
not
on
this
agenda
today.
D
No
I'm
sorry.
This
is
regarding
the
general
plan
performance
review.
B
Okay,
so
so
it
is
definitely
for
the
item
on
the
agenda,
so
we
will
take
that
when
vera.
B
E
Yes
great
happy
new
year,
everyone,
robert
rivera
with
citywide
planning
team,
I'm
joined
today
with
michael
brier,
division
manager,
division
manager,
sorry
wb,
deputy
director
and
today
I'll
be
presenting
the
envision
san
jose
2040
general
plan
overview
for
fiscal
year
2020
to
2021.
E
So
just
brief
background:
the
division,
san
jose
24
general
plan
sets
forth
a
vision
and
a
comprehensive
road
map
to
guide
the
city's
continued
growth
through
the
year
2040.
E
The
general
plan
is
the
city's
official
policy
document
regarding
its
future
vision
and
sets
goals
and
major
strategies
to
achieve
them,
including
standards
for
city
services,
land
use
patterns
and
quality
of
development.
It
took
several
years
of
community
engagements
and
hundreds
of
participants
to
finalize
the
general
plan.
The
current
general
plan
that
we
use
was
adopted
in
2011
title
division,
san
jose,
2040,
2040
being
the
sunset
year
to
achieve
the
goals
outlined
in
the
plan,
and
here's
just
some
covers
brief.
E
E
This
is
the
general
plan,
land
use
transportation,
diagram
that
we
have
the
in
the
envision
san
jose,
2040
and
largely.
This
is
what
was
shaped
between
the
1950s
and
60s,
as
shown
here,
there's
a
variety
of
land
uses,
yellow
being
residential
neighborhood,
and
that's
predominantly
the
the
residential
designation
that
we
have
in
in
san
jose.
E
Pardon
me
I'll
briefly
go
over
the
major
strategies
of
the
general
plan.
The
general
plan
includes
policies
to
annually
evaluate
progress
on
the
plan,
strategies
and
actions
and
takes
place
every
fall
of
each
year
where
we're
sometimes
fall
sometimes
winter.
E
The
the
annual
review
is
also
when
the
planning
commission
city
council
can
consider
privately
proposed
amendments
to
the
general
plan
and
we've
organized
the
performance
evaluation
around
the
12
major
strategies
in
the
general
plan
based
on
data
for
the
20
20
21
fiscal
year
and
the
the
fiscal
year
starts
in
july
first
and
goes
to
the
next
year
july,
30
or
june
30th.
E
The
first
one
being
major
strategy,
one
community-based
planning,
the
community-based
planning
major
strategy-
is
a
commitment
to
effectively
engage
all
segments
of
the
community
in
a
meaningful
planning
process.
The
general
plan
goes
beyond
state
requirements
for
outreach
by
implementing
the
city's
public
outreach
policy.
E
6-30
the
table
here
on
the
slide
shows
the
number
of
community
meetings
held
by
the
planning
division
by
fiscal
year.
Since
the
adoption
of
the
general
plan
through
fiscal
year,
2020
21
on
average,
the
planning
division
has
held
over
50
community
meetings
per
year
when
the
average
of
over
1
700
attendees
each
year
and
due
to
the
pandemic
and
shelter-in-place
restrictions,
community
meetings
were
halted
back
in
march,
2020
staff
began
reformatting
community
meetings
in
a
virtual
format
and
in
june
2020
we
implemented
the
virtual
community
meetings.
E
So,
as
a
result,
you
can
notice
the
fiscal
year
for
2019
2020
shows
a
significant
decrease
in
community
meetings,
while
fiscal
year
2020-21
shows
a
significant
increase,
as
those
virtual
meetings
became
the
predominant
format
for
holding
those
community
meetings.
E
Major
strategy
number
two
form-based
plan:
the
form-based
plan,
major
strategy,
uses
land-use
designations
and
general
plan
goals
and
policies
to
address
the
form
and
character
and
densities
for
future
development
in
the
city.
The
strategy
aims
to
maintain
and
create
compatible
and
cohesive
neighborhoods,
while
allowing
for
flexibility
within
the
land
use
designations
and
recent
examples
of
where
the
strategy
strategy
is
implemented
is
a
city,
design,
standards,
citywide
design,
centers
and
guidelines
adopted
on
february
23
2021,
and
these
are
just
objective
standards
that
you
know
developers
can
look
to
to
that.
E
Major
strategy
number
three
is
focused
growth.
The
focus
growth
major
strategy
focuses
new
residential
and
commercial
growth
capacity
and
specifically
identified
growth
areas.
The
approach
is
meant
to
reduce
environmental
impacts
and
improve
the
city's
fiscal
health
and
preserve
established
neighborhoods
and
here's
a
map
of
all
of
the
focus
growth
areas
in
the
city
of
san
jose.
E
E
The
city's
population
is
declined
by
1.8
percent
from
the
peak
levels
being
a
little
over
1
million
49
000
losing
approximately
19
000
residents
in
the
past
year,
and
then
total
current
population
is
1.029
million
residents.
E
The
the
graph
also
shows
the
city's
projected
population
to
and
then
the
actual
trajectory
of
the
population
growth-
and
you
know,
there's
a
lot
of
speculation,
why
the
the
residents
resident
numbers
have
dropped,
and
at
this
point
it's
still
to
be
determined
if
the
cause
was
completely
cloved.
If
there
are
other
underlying
causes.
Just
for
for
reference
to
the
population
in
2011
was
when
the
the
general
plan
was
adopted
was
roughly
970
000.
E
Commercial
activity
was
high,
this
past
fiscal
year
or
in
2019
2019
2020,
and
then
in
fiscal
year,
20
2021
industrial
office
building
permits
have
been
the
highest
since
since
the
adoption
of
the
general
plan-
and
this
is
largely
due
to
more
building
permits
being
permitted
for
industrial
office,
a
higher
interest
in
downtown
and
dsap
areas.
E
This
equates
to
an
average
production
of
approximately
two
thousand
seven
hundred
dollar
units
per
year
and
consistent
with
the
general
policies
for
focused
growth
and
preserving
our
open
spaces
and
existing
neighborhoods
nine
percent
of
housing
production
since
2011
has
been
for
for
single-family
homes.
The
rest
have
been
for
multi-family
and
again
large.
A
large
part
of
that
single
family
building
permits
issued
is
for
adus.
E
Next
graph
shows
valuations
of
commercial
and
industrial
alterations
and
overall
level.
Investment
in
renovations
to
existing
buildings,
commercial
alterations
have
slightly
increased
from
the
previous
fiscal
year,
indicates
higher
number
of
renovations
and
remodels
of
commercial
space,
while
industrial
office
alterations
have
dropped
the
lowest
since
2011
likely
due
to
the
pandemic
and
lack
of
renewed
leases
for
fiscal
year.
2021.
E
Since
adoption
and
general
plan,
the
city's
been
pretty
successful
in
implementing
the
focus
growth
major
strategy
over
the
last
fiscal
year,
80
percent
of
new
residential
development
and
41
of
new
commercial
development
and
90
98
of
new
industrial
square
footage
has
been
within
focus
growth
areas,
and
these
are
three
different
maps
showing
the
concentration
of
new
commercial,
new
industrial
office
and
residential
growth.
E
Housing
all
while
not
a
major
strategy
also
plays
an
integral
role
in
the
general
plan
through
the
housing
element
and
as
a
component
for
multiple
major
strategies.
The
graph
shows
120
000
planned
units
from
the
baseline
of
the
general
plan
through
2040.
E
to
meet
the
goals
of
the
general
plan.
It
will
require
an
uptick
in
housing
production,
as
I
mentioned
earlier,
we're
averaging
around
2
700
units
per
year
since
the
adoption
of
the
general
plan,
but
to
meet
the
ambition,
ambitious
goals
of
the
general
plan,
we
would
need
to
average
approximately
3
700
units
a
year
to
reach
the
the
120
000
homes
planned,
which
would
be
a
high
pace
based
on
on
past
trends.
E
E
E
So
five
years
into
the
current
arena
cycle,
we
have
issued
building
permits
for
eight
that
18
430
units
with
23
percent
being
affordable,
so
roughly
4327
units
are
are
affordable
for
market
rate.
We
have
issued
building
permits
for
14
hundred
and
three
units
and
anticipate
reaching
the
market
rate
goal
set
by
arena,
which
is
14
231
units.
E
Zoning
regulations
to
encourage
development
of
single
secondary
dwelling
units
were
further
relaxed.
This
has
been
seen
shown
in
the
former
slide
as
an
uptick
in
in
those
single
family
residential
adus.
E
This
is
meter
strategy,
number
four
innovation,
regional
employment
center,
the
regional
employment
center
major
strategy
aims
to
transform
san
jose
from
a
bedroom
community
into
a
regional
employment
center.
The
general
plan
plans
for
38
382
000
new
jobs
and
sets
a
goal
to
reverse
the
imbalance
of
jobs
to
housing.
E
One
of
the
primary
goals
of
the
regional
employment
center
strategy
is
to
achieve
a
jobs-employed
resident
ratio
of
1.1
jobs
for
every
employed
resident
based
on
the
most
current
complete
data
set.
The
city's
job
jobs
to
employed
resident
ratio
has
decreased
since
2017
back
to
2011
levels
at
0.80,
with
exception
of
a
higher
jobs,
input
employment
ratio
in
2017,
and
this
is
likely
due
to
the
loss
of
employed
residents
and
jobs
due
to
the
pandemic.
E
E
E
And
has
decreased
compared
to
fiscal
year,
20
2019.
E
Major
strategy
number
four:
innovation:
regional
employment
center,
while
the
jobs
employed
resident
ratio
is
declining
on
may
25th
2021.
The
city
council
unanimously
approved
the
downtown
west
mix
use
plan.
The
approval
followed
three
years
plus
of
community
engagement,
led
by
both
the
city
and
google
and
built
upon
a
decade
of
planning
for
the
dear
don
station
area.
Downtown
west
makes
up
approximately
80
acres
of
the
250
acre
deer
dawn
station
area
plan.
E
Moving
on
to
major
strategy
number
five
urban
villages,
the
urban
village
major
strategy
promotes
the
development
of
urban
villages
that
are
active,
walkable
and
transit,
oriented
mixed-use
settings
for
new
housing
and
job
growth.
In
total.
The
general
plan
identifies
us,
64
urban
village
areas
that
plan
for
approximately
65
000
housing
units
and
116
000
jobs.
E
E
There
thus
far,
there
have
been
12
urban
village
plans
that
have
been
adopted
by
council
and
north
first
street
urban
village
is
currently
in
the
planning
process.
There
are
seven
additional
plans
that
are
anticipated
to
be
initiated,
including
ray
street
southwest
expressway
east
side
rock
little
portugal
to
be
updated
and
figure.
10
shows
the
timeline
of
anticipated
dates
to
be
initiated.
E
Better
bikeway
san
jose
was
an
initiative
to
increase
bicycling
in
central
san
jose
as
of
july
2020.
The
initiative
has
installed
10.7
miles
of
bikeways
in
downtown
4.2
miles
of
protected
bikeways
1.5
miles
of
bike
lanes
and
5
miles
of
shared
lanes
on
calm
streets
and
that's
been
completed.
E
Doc
recently
updated
the
city's
city's
bike
plan
to
better
bike
plan
2025,
which
was
recently
approved
by
city
council
on
october
6..
The
plan
aims
to
increase
bike
trips
by
at
least
15
percent
by
2040.
E
E
The
city
has
announced
that
by
2030
and
it
intends
to
emit
the
same
amount
of
carbon
dioxide
into
the
atmosphere
as
it
offsets
by
alternative
means,
such
as
producing
more
electricity
from
solar
panels
and
encouraging
more
residents
to
drive
electric
vehicles
over
gas,
tired
vehicles.
So
they're
they're
offsetting
the
the
carbon
emissions
by
2030.
E
The
fiscally
strong
city
major
strategy
establishes
land
use,
goals
and
policies
that
promote
a
balance
of
revenue
and
costs
to
allow
the
city
to
improve
delivery
of
municipal
services.
A
key
component
of
this
strategy
is
to
preserve
employment
land,
since
commercial
development
has
the
most
beneficial
impacts
on
the
city's
fiscal
health
and
the
ability
to
provide
services.
E
The
covet
19
pandemic
has
a
great
and
adverse
impact
on
the
fiscal
outlook
of
the
city.
The
city's
general
fund
is
the
primary.
Is
the
primary
operating
fund
used
to
account
for
all
revenues
and
expenditures
of
the
city
which
are
not
related
to
special
or
capital
funds
that
were
created
for
a
specific
purpose?
E
This
variance
represents
a
2.7
increase
surplus
of
the
2020
2020
modified
budget.
E
E
E
Since
adoption
of
the
general
plan
in
2011
2011
vacancy
rates
were
approximately
23.6
percent,
and
currently
the
vacancy
rate
is
12.7
percent
for
commercial
office
in
downtown.
E
The
next
major
strategy
life
emits
abundant
natural
resources,
promotes
the
city's
natural
environment
and
reinforces
the
urban
growth
boundary.
The
strategy
also
promotes
building
a
world-class
trail
network
and
continuing
to
build
parts
for
the
city's
residents.
Currently,
the
city
has
over
200
parks
and
has
completed
over
60
miles
of
off-street
trails.
E
E
This
is
major
strategy
number
11
designed
for
a
helpful
community
which
supports
the
physical
health
of
the
community
by
promoting
walking,
bicycling
and
encouraging
access
to
healthful
foods.
Goals
and
policies
of
the
general
plan
encourage
the
development
of
complete
communities
where
residents
can
walk
and
bike
and
have
access
to
parks
and
trails.
E
The
general
plan
emphasizes
investment
in
active
transportation
and
sets
an
ambitious
goal
to
reduce
the
drive
alone,
commute
mode
split
to
less
than
40
by
2040.,
we're
currently
actually
around
75.8
percent
driving
alone.
Another
program
that
will
support
the
general
plans
commute
mode
split
is
the
vta's
next
network
project,
which
was
launched
in
early
2020.
E
It
seeks
to
better
connect,
vta
transit
with
the
milpitas
and
various
bart
station
and
increase
ridership
overall,
unfortunately,
the
vta
next
network
project
was
halted
because
of
covert
19
and
vta
was
focusing
on
increasing
operations
to
better
connect
residents,
but
hopefully
they'll
they'll
continue
to
observe
and
continue
that
initiative.
E
Lastly,
in
major
strategy,
number
12
planned
horizons
and
periodic
reviews.
This
major
strategy
provides
a
tool
for
phasing
residential
development
in
urban
villages.
E
E
B
First
of
all,
robert:
that's
impressive
man,
not
just
the
the
depth
of
the
work,
but
your
ability
to
to
talk
straight
through
it.
So
thank
you
for
that.
Yeah
there's
a
lot.
I
could
see
that
with
that
before
we
get
into
commissioner
questions,
I
understand
we
do
have
public
comment
and
that
public
comment
also
wants
to
be
able
to
present
a
chart.
Jen.
Is
this
a
good
time
to
do
that?
B
All
right,
so
let's
go
ahead
and
start
public.
I'm
sorry,
commissioner,
casey
all
right,
chair
two
of
the
commissioners
I
think
are
in
the
attendee
section:
oh
oh,
are
they
got
it
yeah?
Thank
you.
A
B
A
Perfect,
okay,
I'll
go
ahead
and
share
my
screen
and
then
I'll
unmute.
All.
D
Yeah
good
evening,
chair
bonilla
members
of
the
commission,
my
name
is
eric
schnauer,
I'm
a
local
land
use
consultant
san
jose
fifth
generation
san
jose,
and
I
had
the
honor
of
serving
on
the
original
envision
24
the
task
force,
the
first
four-year
review,
update
and
the
second
four-year
review
update.
So
I'm
very
familiar
with
the
general
plan
and
the
staff
did
a
fantastic
job,
pulling
together
the
overall
analysis
of
the
general
plan.
B
D
Draw
focus
on
a
significant
challenge
that
we
faced
as
a
city
and
a
major
failure
of
the
general
plan,
and
that
is
in
the
production
of
housing,
and
so
I
put
the
city's
data
in
a
slightly
different
format,
because
I
find
it
easier
to
read
and
understand
so
on.
The
right
side
of
this
chart
are
the
total
housing
units
that
have
received
building
permits
in
the
10
years
of
the
envision
2040
general
plan.
So
you
see
the
numbers
in
red.
D
Those
are
the
annual
building
permits
issued
for
multi-family
and
single-family
housing,
and
I
just
want
to
remind
the
commission
that,
as
robert
said,
the
arena
goal,
the
state
requirement
is
that
the
city
produce
roughly
3
500
units
per
year
for
this
current
renault
cycle
and
the
next
rina
cycle.
That
number
is
going
to
go
up
significantly
higher
than
3
500
units
a
year
when
envision
2040
was
adopted.
D
D
So
those
are
the
those
are
the
established
goals:
3
500
by
the
state,
4
100
by
capacity
of
the
general
plan
and
5
000
units
a
year
by
city
council
policy.
Look
at
the
column
on
the
right.
This
is
what
the
city's
producing
and
a
large
portion
of
the
reason
is
the
implementation
policies
in
the
general
plan.
D
F
So
I
called
the
envision
2040
plan
a
displacement
plan.
I
call
it
envision
displacement
2040.
now
eric
and
I
are
on
opposite
sides
of
the
sort
of
fence,
but
we
are
completely
in
line
with
this
one
idea,
which
is
that
san
jose
my
my
feeling
is
that
san
jose
has
actually
done
more
to
cause
the
homelessness
crisis.
F
With
this
general
plan
than
almost
anything
else,
so
we
can
blame
landlords
or
we
can
bloom
blame
progress
and
how
poverty
and
progress
are
quite
aligned
in
large
cities
like
ours
that
are
successful
financially,
but
the
bottom
line
is
this.
General
plan
was
intended
by
mayor
reed
and
then
by
mayor
licardo,
who
supported
it
to
have
a
jobs
to
housing
ratio
of
three
to
one,
and
they
did
not
want
housing
to
be
built
period
and
it
has
not
been.
F
We
need
to
listen
to
eric
schonauer
and
find
out
what
it
is
that
he
is
suggesting
we
do,
because
we
have
to
get
things
built
fast
and
there
is
there's
really
no
better
person
to
talk
to
than
eric
schoenauer.
I
personally
think
that,
even
though
he
may
be
at
the
end
of
my
demise,
where
I
live
ultimately
he's
going
to
help
us
get
housing
built,
and
I
think
he's
the
only
one
that
I
can
say
that
when
I
see
him
his
expertise
in
this
area
is
without
question.
F
I
hope
tonight
that
you
will
find
it
in
your
hearts
to
sort
of
ask
him.
What
can
we
do
to
build
and
build
fast?
Thank
you.
B
Chair
at
all
right
this.
That
concludes
public
comment.
All
right
with
that
colleagues,
any
questions
from
the
floor
here.
C
Thank
you
chair
good
evening.
Everyone
first
of
all,
I'd
like
to
commend
mr
rivera,
mr
brio
and
the
planning
staff
on
the
on
the
staff
report.
It
was
amazing
it
was
excellent.
I
worked
in
local
government
for
a
long
time.
I
know
how
hard
it
is
and
how
much
work
it
is
to
produce
those
reports.
It
was
concise,
well-written,
great
graphics,
and
I
learned
a
lot.
I
I
read
every
word
of
it.
C
C
E
Page
18,
please
pardon
me,
I
think
this
is
only
the
summary
sheet.
C
Thank
you,
mr
rivera
appreciate
that
so
this
page
was
probably
the
most
telling
page
in
the
report
and
and
I'll
for
myself
I'll,
tell
you
why.
So
we
have
folks
that
are
saying
that
we're
not
producing
enough
housing.
I
understand
that.
C
C
What
that
means
is
that
we
are
actually
producing
more
housing
in
comparison
to
our
employed
residents
than
any
other
city,
and
I'd
like
to
point
out
the
vast
disparity,
for
example,
cupertino
2.15
mountain
view,
1.89
palo,
alto,
3.27,
santa
clara
1.92.
C
Now
the
the
reason
this
is
important
is
because
the
way
the
city
is
funded
is
from
tax
revenue
and
tax
revenue
in
california
unfortunately
comes
from
employment,
not
so
much
from
residential
property
or
residents.
So
what
happens
is
when
we're
in
a
city
with
a
0.8,
we
have
a
structural
deficit
program
problem
in
our
budget.
We
we
have.
C
So
I
point
this
out,
because
this
report
has
really
kind
of
created
a
paradigm
shift
for
me
as
how
I
think
about
housing.
C
I'm
new
on
the
commission
and
I
came
on
the
commission
with
the
thought
that
we
need
more
housing
kind
of
period,
I'm
starting,
especially
with
their
support
to
question
that
I
think
we
need
more
affordable
housing,
definitely
no
question,
but
I'm
not
sure
that
we're
not
already
doing
our
share
of
market
rate
housing,
particularly
considering
our
cities
to
our
north.
I
feel
like
maybe
the
cities
to
our
north
need
to
step
up
and
do
their
share
so
I'll
I'll
I'll
stop
there.
C
But
I
do
have
a
question
from
mr
rivera
and
mr
brio,
which
is
how
do
you
explain
that
we
are
short
on
the
arena
goals
of
our
share
of
housing
when
we
are
appear
to
be
also
short
on
our
employed
residents?
That
that
seems
like
a
contradiction
to
me
and
I
believe
the
arena
goals
are
set
by
the
association
of
bay
area
governments,
which
is
not
an
elected
body.
So
I
was
wondering
if
you
might
just
be
able
to
explain
that
contradiction.
E
Thank
you,
commissioner,
young,
for
your
your
comments,
and
I
really
appreciate
reading
the
entire
report
and
taking
the
time
to
to
get
into
the
details.
Just
to
reiterate
your
question
the
the
this.
E
I
guess
your
question
is:
why
does
the
city
seem
to
need
to
produce
more
housing
if,
if
we're
short
on
the
the
arena
goals,
I
just
wanted
to
bring
up
this
figure
on
in
the
staff
report.
E
And,
yes,
the
city
is
producing
less
than
the
the
total
housing
units
for
the
arena
allocation,
but
we're
likely
going
to
meet
a
hundred
percent
of
the
the
market
rate
units
and
falling
short
of
the
affordable
units
and,
like
you
were,
you
were
saying,
more
affordable
housing
is,
is
really
what's
needed
and
that's
the
area
where
percentage-wise
the
city
is
falling
short,
we'll
meet
the
the
the
arena
allocation
for
market
rate
units,
but
that
60,
affordable
goal
is,
is
likely
going
to
not
be
met
and
michael
is
working
on
updating
the
our
arena
allocation
and
can
speak
more
to
that
as
well.
G
Yeah,
I
think
a
lot
of
it.
Commissioner.
Young
has
a
lot
to
do
with
the
jobs,
we're
not
growing
jobs
as
quickly
as
we
would
need
to
to
get
to
that
balance
of
one
and
then
exceed
that
that
to
get
to
a
goal
of
1.1,
so
it's
largely
the
jobs
as
robert
showed
the
jobs
actually
actually
have
crap
downward,
particularly
during
covid.
G
So
that's
a
big,
that's
a
big
part
of
it.
I
think
also
this.
This
is
about
unit
production.
The
population
you
know
there
is.
There
has
been
a
bit
of
overcrowding
likely
going
on.
I
don't
have
the
data
on
that,
but
that's
my
hunch.
Another
factor,
that's
happening
is
you're.
Having
more
and
more
people
in
certain
situations
living
in
units.
C
Thank
you
thank
you
for
that,
and
I
think
I'll
finish
and
let
other
commissioners
ask
questions,
but
I
think
that
mr
brio,
what
you
brought
up
is
that
it's
critically
important
to
preserve
the
employment
lands
we
have,
and
that
is
one
of
the
major
strategies
I'm
not
finding
where
it
is.
But
I
know
I
saw
it
in
there
that
we
need
to.
We
need
to
preserve
employment
lands,
it's
very
important
and
think
very
carefully
about
adding
market
rate
housing
on
lands
that
could
be
used
for
employment.
B
B
Any
other
questions,
commissioner
casey.
That
was
it
just
a
general
comment.
I'm
wondering
you
know
if
these
aren't
conflicting
goals
and
how
do
we
reconcile
them
right?
We
want
the
jobs.
Obviously
we
want
the
housing
and
I
understand
the
need
for
the
jobs
and
in
terms
of
how
that
physically
impacts
the
city,
but
is
there
something
we
can
do
to
kind
of
prevent
these
conflicting
goals
from
combating
one
another.
G
Yeah,
I
mean,
I
think
so
so
a
couple
of
things
so
the
general
planning
you
have
to
remember
that
when
the
general
plan
was
being
developed
and
approved
by
council,
we
were
in
the
great
recession.
We
were
in
a
jobs
crisis
which
had
significant
physical
impacts
upon
a
city
and
on
people's
own
personal
lives.
So
but
we've
kind
of
shifted
our
approach
over
the
last.
G
You
know
what
is
that,
10
years,
it's
more
a
focus
on
being
much
more
of
a
balanced
city,
so
it's
really
about
growing
jobs
and
housing,
and
while
those
can
seem
to
be
in
conflict,
we
really
need
to
do
both,
and
I
think
the
area
is
sort
of
where
they
really
come
in
conflict,
and
I
think
where
we
can
try
not
to
really
further
put
housing
and
jobs
at
odds
is
to
continue
to
maintain
and
uphold
those
policies.
G
G
Actually,
we
don't
actually
have
enough
housing
capacity
right
now
to
spread
them
out
all
the
all
of
the
urban
villages,
so
we
have
actually
more
growth
areas
than
we
need
to
build
120
000
housing
units,
but
that
that's
sort
of
I
think
the
critical
thing
is
kind
of
really
continuing,
at
least
from
staff's
perspective.
The
general
plans
perspective,
keeping
that
focus
on
growing
making
the
housing
happen
in
the
growth
areas
and
not
converting
employment
land,
particularly
industrial
land,
but
also
commercial,
and
to
housing.
G
One
of
the
things
that
has
come
up
a
lot,
how
the
general
plan
is
a
barrier
to
housing
is,
you
know,
is
the
idea
of
horizons
and
meteoring
out
housing
growth.
That's
something
the
planning
commission
recommended
in
the
city
council
got
rid
of
the
idea
of
doing
horizons
or
keeping
the
horizon
in
the
general
plan.
So
that's
now
not
in
the
general
plan,
at
least
for
urban
villages.
G
G
I
think
two
things
with
that
one
is
we
really
need
to
figure
out
how
we
grow
the
jobs
as
well
preserve
land
for
jobs
while
doing
the
housing,
and
that
comes
out
of
the
village
process
and
I
think,
more
importantly,
it's
really
a
sort
of
a
balancing
act
between
community
engagement,
involvement
and
democracy
versus
just
streamlining
the
process
for
development.
G
So
when
we
do,
the
village
plans
an
opportunity
for
stakeholders,
community
stakeholders,
property
owners,
developers,
businesses
and
others
to
get
together
and
come
up
with
sort
of
an
approach
of
how
you
would
grow
that
that
urban
village
to
sort
of
meet
many
goals
and
achieve
that
balance.
So
that's
sort
of
the
the
balancing
act.
If
you
go
down
the
spectrum
of
of
you
know,
streamlining
versus
community
engagement,
so
we
think
we
have
a
good
approach
there.
G
B
No,
I
appreciate
that.
I
just
I'm
sorry,
I
chaired
me
to
cut
you
off.
I
appreciate
staff's
effort.
You
know
especially
compiling
and
presenting
this
information.
The
way
you
guys
did
so
you
should
be
commended.
As
other
commissioners
have
commented,
I
would
be
interested
if
the
chair
would
be
open
to
it
and
the
rest
of
the
commissioner
just
to
hearing
what
mr
shanehauer's
a
few
of
his,
I
guess
suggestions
would
be
in
terms
of
assessing
the
situation
as
well,
but
I'll
wait
and
see
what
everyone
else
thinks
you
want.
B
B
is
it?
Is
it?
Is
it
pressing
for
you,
commissioner
casey?
If
it
is,
I
will
go
otherwise.
I
think
we
should
no.
No,
no!
No!
No!
I
know
I
I
think
michael
did
a
great
job
in
terms
of
summing
up
a
lot
of
the
information
but
yeah.
Just
if
we
had
extra
time
would
have
been
nice,
but
no
sorry,
no
don't
worry.
So
what
I'll
do
is
I'll
end?
The
meeting
with
ornelas
wise
I'll
give
her
the
floor,
and
then,
after
that
we
can
adjourn.
A
Thank
you,
hi
really
good
job
brother
and
you
look
very
professional.
So
thank
you
just
one
of
the
things
I
was
looking
at
a
major
strategy
number
six,
where
you
talk
about
access
and
mobility,
and-
and
I
know
that
you
all
mentioned
a
lot
about
bikes
and
bikes-
you
know
I've.
You
know
obviously
we're
now
in
2022
and
I've
seen
so
many
really
cool
recreational
gadgets
for
people
to
use
as
a
mode
of
transportation.
A
I
don't
know
if,
if
you
have
in
any
of
that
language,
I
mean
it
would
be
nice
to
see
some
of
those
motorized
or
electric
sort
of
skateboards
or
vehicles
be
able
to
use
some
of
the
trails
or
you
know
some
of
those
paths
so
that
you
could
get
people
out
of
cars
and
actually
using
those
safely.
I
I
don't
know
how,
but
I'm
sure
that
somehow
I
mean
did
you
include
that
at
all
in
the
text.
E
No,
we
didn't
include
other
micro
mobility
modes.
I
think
the
focus
was
on
you
know,
reducing
driving
alone
and
really
getting
be
it
bike,
walking,
scooters
or
other.
You
know.
I've
seen
those
one-wheel
devices
any
other
devices
that
can
can
promote
other
modes
of
transit.
I
think
I
think
by
it's
not
exclusive
to
biking
or.
A
G
Yeah
dot's
transportation
planning
work
is
as
a
big
part
of
their
work
is
focused
on
those
micro
mobility
elements.
They
really
recognize
that's
a
real
growth
area
to
improve
people's
access
and
getting
around
without
a
call,
so
they
are
they're
working
a
lot
on
that.
I'm
not
I'm
not
too
sure
of
the
status
of
those
devices
on
trails.
I
know
when
I
had
a
conversation
about
this
in
the
past
with
the
trail
coordinator,
that
electric
bikes
weren't
really
supposed
to
be
on
the
trails,
but
nobody
really
pays
attention
to
that.
A
Another
thing
on
major
strategy
number
11,
one
of
the
things
that
I
you
know
it's
really
taking
back
public
streets
and
converting
them
into
public
use.
Obviously,
during
the
pandemic,
we
we've
seen
a
lot
of
like
restaurants
and
what
not
do
that,
like
san
pedro
square
or
even
convert
some
of
these
streets
that
are
maybe
not
used
to
create
more
locations
for
affordable
housing-
and
you
know
I
don't
know
if
you
you
included
any
of
that
at
all,
or
was
that
even
discussed
in
the
document
as
part
of
maybe
something
that
could
be
implemented.
E
That
wasn't
discussed
for
affordable
housing,
it
is,
it
is
part
of
you
know,
creating
a
lively
atmosphere
and
kind
of
a
streetscape
where
people
can
enjoy
entertainment
kind
of
have
a
you
know,
access
to
events
outdoors
and
kind
of
recognize
that
the
importance
of
of
those
events,
especially
during
the
the
pandemic,
but
it
I
don't
think
there
was
anything
focused
for
affordable
housing,
though.