City of San Jose, CA Station Area Advisory Group, 16 Jan 2020

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City of San José
Station Area Advisory Group
View agenda at https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=757068&GUID=91BC8DF4-0FDF-46B8-898A-EB70C275AC10

A

So it is 6:06 we're gonna get started here soon as in right now, we'll let people get seated, it looks like everyone got their name tag and if you your organization, how to binder over here, you have all the materials you need. If you got your nametag from here, hopefully you got one of the green packets as well as a copy of the PowerPoint presentation. So does anyone need anything?

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So with that welcome everyone to the stationery advisory group meeting, my name is laurie Severino, I'm the Deardon program manager for the city of San, Jose and I run facilitate the stationary advisory group and run the community engagement program for all things, dear Don, and so we also have our consultants here. Diana and Dave Javed and there'll be some other city staff that are presenting tonight so we'll introduce them along the way.

A

So before I continue, I'd like to call the interpreter make an announcement.

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So here is the agenda for tonight. So after this introduction, I'll turn it over to Dave to approve the meeting minutes from the last time you all met together, which was August 22nd, we'll go over the meeting objectives and then there's three big items for tonight, including an update on the community engagement process. That'll, be a staff presentation by me, followed by a question and answer period.

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Next, will be an update on the Google project or the downtown West mixed-use plan and we'll be talking about the processes related to the development agreement and design review, also followed by a Q&A and then, lastly, will be an update by Liz Scanlon, the project manager for the Jared on integrated station concept plan and also time for question answers and then, at the end of the meeting, there'll, be an opportunity for public comment.

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So with this meeting here our objectives, we want you to know about all the engagement activities that we did last fall as part of the first round of outreach for this phase of work on Deardon projects. So that'll include what we heard and what we're doing with input as well as some answers to a few commonly asked questions and the process moving forward through through 2020.

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We want to make sure you understand: what's happened with the Deardon integrated station concept plan, since we last met and next steps in that process and also clarify the process for developing a community benefits plan that'll be part of a development agreement for the Google project, as well as talk about the initial thinking for the design review process for that project. So tonight is your opportunity to ask questions, share reactions and we also want to hear from the public.

A

So with that I'll turn over to Dave.

C

Thank You Laurie great, to see you all again, thank you for being here so before we get kicked off here. I wanted to just get an approval of the meeting minutes from August 22nd can I get an approval in a second please from anyone.

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C

You excellent thank you so much so with that. Just wanted a quick reminder about meeting logistics. This is all recorded. It's actually also streaming live all this information. We posted up on the project website along with summaries. So please do know that and please do share information and go to the website to visit all the great summaries and information that's imposed to there to date. You all have seen these group agreements many times and you've all been excellent and staying within these group agreements.

C

I just want to remind you that we want to create a safe space. We want to recognize that one person speaks at a time. We want definitely put yourself in each other's shoes in each other's perspectives.

C

You're, definitely representing different, diverse voices in the community, so we want to bring that to the table and really again just create a space where we could all think collectively and work together and I always like to say, have fun. That's one of the main reasons we're all here as well. In terms of the public and your engagement with this process, there is a code of conduct which you hope you all know by now, but it's really also to be respectful and hold your comments.

C

We do have a public comment period, but we're also going to be collecting comment cards. We ask you to bring those up so that we know who all wants to speak and we'll give you a couple warnings as we go throughout the process. If you haven't had a chance to do so and again, as we mentioned before, all this, we really record in the summaries we post it to the website as well. So please stay tuned and with that I'm going to actually hand it back to Lori to do the communication update I.

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Think I'm gonna sit for this.

A

Okay, thanks Dave all right. So as I mentioned, the purpose of this update is to explain what we did. What we heard, what we're doing with the input and what's coming up with community engagement, so I had planned to co-present with Tim rude. He is the Planning Division manager, that's overseeing the Google project in the Deardon station area plan. Unfortunately he's out sick today. So this is gonna. Be all me sorry about that.

A

So last fall. There was a couple community events related to the dirt on integrated station concept plan, including a couple workshops. They were focused on the big moves of that and you'll hear a little bit more on that later on. In the meeting there was also a virtual Town Hall, which is the somewhat experimental engagement format that we all tried and it we thought it went very well about 70, plus people were tuned in live and then, of course, it's posted afterwards, and so we've gotten more views on that for the Google project.

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There was a couple meetings that the Planning Division hosted environmental scoping meeting as well as a development application meeting and Google also hosted a design workshop on December 7th.

A

So for the dear non-stationary of programs that covers not just the Google project and the concept plan, but all the other things going on in the area we held two community meetings at the lenninger Center and the Gardner community center and three small group meetings with you all and I believe most of your organization's were able to send a representative to one of these three meetings.

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So these are the discussion topics that we talked about at the fall engagement meetings and the purpose of those meetings were really to inform people about what's going on the projects and the decision making processes as well as get reactions to some initial concepts on under consideration. So that includes Google's application for the downtown West mixed-use plan, as well as staffs recommended concept layout for the station concept plan. So we also had tables and discussion topics related to the dirt on station area, plan, amendment process, transportation and parking parks, trails and open space and housing.

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So this is a picture of the first community meeting we had where there were tables for each of these six topics, and so this format allowed people to explore the information at their own pace, stay at some tables longer than others, depending on their interest, and we had the project managers for these projects available to interact with the public and answer questions so experimenting with a little bit different format. But it was a really great way to share a lot of information and let people absorb it at their own pace and interest.

A

So add all these meetings, this just a quick refresher, since most of you already saw this presentation, but we did provide an overview of all the projects in the dirt on station area that are active. So of course, there's many adopted plans and things like that that apply to the area, but these are the ones that have a ongoing component to it.

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So this was just mainly to provide a foundational concept for the rest of the the presentation we use this map to show how all these projects fit together in space and had a big board of this printed out and there's extra copies of this up here. If you want to get that at any point, and so we also presented this graphic to show how the projects fit together in time and with the engagement process.

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So the the intent here is to be well coordinated across projects and to focus our outreach and engagement into four rounds, and so we've of course completed the fall round, and so we have three more planned for 2020.

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So we'll get into that preview a little bit later on, so the these next few slides summarize the most frequently made comments that we heard at these meetings and the key themes from from the fall engagement. So with respect to the Google project. There's a desire for more information related to housing, the active retail cultural spaces, the relationship with the surrounding neighborhoods building, design, parking construction, phasing open space and its relationship with the concept plan.

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So in also on the Google project, there were comments to make sure that there is a sufficient useable, open space and recreational facilities as part of the overall open space plan that we should highlight the green infrastructure and sustainability efforts that have been proposed as part of the Google project and a few people thought that the interface with the station and the project's need the project needs more of a WOW factor, and these were the top topics raised as part of the environmental scoping process for the Google project.

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So economic and social effects, emergency access, bicycle and pedestrian facilities and historic and biological resources.

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It's related to the Deardon station Area Plan Update. There were some suggestions to expand the study area boundaries, concerns about the potential effects of increased height limits, a desire for other development beyond Google to be held to the same high standards and questions about the anticipated development capacity and the projected community needs that would result from new development.

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So, in addition to the comments on the Google project already mentioned, with respect to parks in public spaces, there's a desire to address issues with homeless people along the creeks and to treat Guadalupe River Park as more of a focal point in the area.

A

Some just to touch on this at a super high level, since this is a agenda item later on. In terms of what we heard on the concept plan, there was general support for staff's recommendation to move forward with elevated platforms at the station and to have to con courses one it Santa Clara ones, at San Fernando. There are concerns, though, about the third recommendation to add tracks and trains to the existing corridor, specifically to the south. There was also some concerns about the potential impacts to the teaming area from a viaduct option.

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So these are some of the topics that people want. The project team to address work continues on the project. There was a lot of interest in how the historic Depot building will be treated. That was probably the top comment.

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There's also interest in how the station will interface with the neighborhoods and in the tracks effect on the neighborhoods as well. So a lot of topics still to be analyzed and addressed in detail.

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So some additional themes related to transportation are improving pedestrian and bicycle safety. Parking management, specifically recognizing that there's long term goals for the area and also current demands for parking. So a desire to to balance that also to minimize effects on the neighborhood in arena with respect to parking.

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So there's a suggestion to look beyond the Deardon area to the west at the Cahill area and traffic concerns, so neighbors want to make sure that the city is considering and addressing the transportation effects from the station and new development on streets outside of the plan boundaries, and this is related to the dear Donna Station area plan, but also the downtown transportation plan. That's kicking off now, so this these are some of the key themes that came from the small group discussions with you all related to housing.

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So there were calls for a bold approach and to make this area a model for inclusive development and to develop strategies that get the biggest bang for the buck. There was recognition of trade-offs involved and a desire for balance so, for example, build both affordable housing that is integrated with market rate, as well as in standalone buildings.

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Consider the full range of affordability, as well as the overall number of units being proposed and balanced units, affordable units in the downtown with other parts of the city as considering opportunities for housing around other train stations that are connected to dear Don.

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So these are some of the key themes that came up at the community meetings, and people continue to raise concerns about displacement and what more outreach to people that are affected by displacement. They want housing for all, and some people shared some ideas for large employers and developers and their role in funding, housing, construction and programs. People are also thank you.

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Concerns about homelessness, so these are probably all sound a little familiar from all the engagement we've done, but the these are what are on top of people's mind for this, this past fall, or at least the people that participated in our engagement events. So here are some but commonly asked questions that we got during the engagement rounds.

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The first one is: how can the public and saw participate in the community benefit process, and so we have put on the agenda for this meeting to dive into that a little bit more, so I won't get into that answer now. A very common question is what is going to happen to the historic train station based on the staff recommended concept layout, so the the somewhat short answer to that is.

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We do not know exactly what will happen to it at this point, but to meet the plan, transit capacity for the corridor, the tracks and platforms within the station will most likely be widened, which would impact the existing building. So it is a designated historic resource, so any modification or alteration would need to be conducted in compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act.

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So in the next phases of work, the project team will look into the options for relocation, preservation, adaptive, reuse, integration with the station. All of those there will also analyze the impacts and mitigation during the environmental review phase.

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So the third question shown here is how the city, how is the city addressing the potential for small business displacement, and so the short answer on that one is, we are doing an assessment of the small business context in the potential displacement risk, we're learning from the initial work being done in the alum rock corridor as part of the citywide strategy for small business anti displacement and where we will ultimately be recommending policies for the Deardon area.

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So this will likely involve increasing our reach to existing businesses and to expand awareness of existing resources such as the business owner space. So we said this in at least one of the small group meetings. But if you are hearing of a business that is struggling or concerned about displacement, please refer them to the Office of Economic Development.

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We will try to connect them with assistance, so the last bullet here is what is the relationship between the Deardon Station area plan and the Google project with respect to sequa and wondering if they were going to be covered under the same report or not, and things like that, so just to be clear, each of these projects will have their own sequa document.

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The target for releasing the environmental impact report on the Google project is this spring, but the team still needs to advance the project description for the update to the Deardon Station area plan before deciding what level of review is needed, and so that document will likely come out a little bit later, all right. So what are we doing with all this input? So this is a very high-level summary of you can all imagine how this is probably oversimplifying all of it, but just so you know with respect to the Google project.

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We have requested additional information, most of which listed earlier the things that the public wants to know more about. So do we so we've requested that information we're working with them to address the comments through the development and environmental review process, we're in analyzing all of the environmental effects that are acquired under sequa, including historic resources, population and housing, greenhouse gas emissions, and we are developing design standards and guidelines for the project which you will hear more about on the next agenda item.

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So for the Deardon station area plan amendments, we are considering the comments that we heard when developing the recommended changes to the plan, and so that includes those related to parks and open space, as well as height and development standards.

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We are working on the potential development capacity for the plan and we'll analyze the implications of that on public infrastructure and services.

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So, with respect to housing, there's a few places where we're directly addressing that so for the affordable housing implementation plan, we're developing and analyzing, affordable housing, construction preservation as well as resident protection. So the housing department calls out the three P's we're also coordinating with citywide efforts. So specifically the anti displacement strategies for residents and small businesses to address some of these big issues and we're working towards a commercial linkage fee as well.

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So with transportation, there's a few different ways in which we are addressing this, so first we're prioritizing pedestrian and bicycle safety in the plans and project review, we're studying parking and developing policies with the goal of balancing current and future demands, analyzing traffic effects and for the transportation plan. The plan right now is to focus first on the dirt on area and that plan is actually is covering the priority development area for the downtown and it's tied to grant funding.

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So the boundaries of that are we're not proposing to change, but rather we are going to make sure that the affects outside of those officials study, area boundaries are are addressed so just because something's not in it doesn't mean it's not being considered. It's just there's a technical grant requirement on the downtown transportation plan related to the boundaries.

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So in terms of engagement, we are updating the continually updating the website with information, we'll be updating the FA cues that are on the website now and beginning to prepare materials for the next outreach round. Keeping in mind the common questions and comments that we are hearing and we're also continuing to think of new ways in which we can engage residents and small businesses more effectively.

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And so one of those ways is, we established a grant program, small grants, but to compensate community based organizations that are partnering with us to expand our outreach capacity and to develop more creative ways and with the ultimate goal of reaching a broader range of community members. So these are the seven plus organizations that we're working with right now to get that partnership going.

A

All right so continuing the preview of the year ahead mentioned that we've already completed the fall round and we have three more coming up, and so these roughly correspond to seasons spring summer and fall the next one. The spring round is going to be very important for getting feedback as the opportunities to influence projects gets narrower as you get closer and closer to the decision points. So with the spring round.

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The Google project, as I mentioned, will have a draft dir environmental impact report released there'll, be some draft by design priorities to respond to and then for the Deardon station area. Wide work there'll be draft concepts to respond to as well, and so there's a city council study session I apologize, the lighting is not great in here, but kind of for both the Google in green and the dear dawn station area and orange there'll be a joint study session on April 24th is when that's been scheduled.

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So with all of this in mind, knowing kind of how the flow and timing of these projects have been coordinated, we have set the dates for the next three stationary advisory group meetings.

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Largely based on when rooms are available to be honest, but we want to also, of course put these during the times in which your input will be meaningful to the process. So the the next one we're looking at March 18th and the idea right now for that meeting is to do topic, bake topic based presentations and discussions related to all the projects so focusing on land-use and urban design, parks, trails and open space, transportation and parking housing and displacement, and green building and sustainability.

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We're also planning to do an update on the Google development agreement and have a discussion related to community benefit trade-offs and priorities.

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So after that, we're looking at June 17 in August, 10 and I know most you're listening because you're writing it down. So that's awesome.

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The idea for the June meeting would be to focus on the draft plans for the Deardon area, so the intention is to at that point, have an amended tiered on station area plan, a draft, affordable housing implementation and plan, a draft parking study ready for public reaction, but also planning to do updates on the different components for the google project and then in August, specifically August 10th.

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The tentative agenda would be to give updates related to the draft design standards and guidelines and draft development agreement for the Google project and then also updates on the aerial guide work. So, of course, the farther out we get the harder. It is to be more specific about that, but this is the tempo that we're we're planning for so lots of information, but uh yeah I'll open it up now to questions and comments now, if they felt facilitate that. Thank you.

C

Thank you, Laurie I forgot to mention earlier as well in terms of logistics, you all probably notice where the restrooms are right outside that door and I want to welcome you all to help yourself to food, there's great food here and plenty of it. So as we used to do in the past. If you have a comment or question, please turn your name tags or name cards, perpendicular and I'll. Call on you and we'll hopefully hear from all you. So any questions on what you just heard or general comments.

C

Laurie totally nailed it. Okay, Jeffrey.

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Jeffrey began with working partnerships, so one of the the item appreciated the presentation and good to see a lot of the feedback around the housing and displacement plan. I think it was, it was pretty well summarized, but a couple of questions one you noted there was questions about the kind of limited term corporate accommodations. One question: I have that particular part of the proposal.

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I think came before the scope of the commercial linkage fee moved forward or any of our changes to our inclusionary housing policy would be interesting to hear how how officer economic development is thinking about. What you know is that housing is that more like a hotel use. So it's a commercial use of initial thoughts on that and then. Secondly, it doesn't look like in this plan, we're seeing the the district financing plan and the kind of when that, when we'll see the updates on that was hoping to.

F

That would be part of the conversation around financing and housing, but certainly financing in the disc financing and other amenities in the district. Interesting to hear the plans on that.

A

So I were taking those questions and I in terms of how the limited term corporate accommodations will be treated, I think that's still being worked out and whether it's housing or commercial or some hybrid there's our code isn't super clear on that. So that's the extent to which I know that and then the commercial linkage fee, I guess that would similarly, we would need to define it more clearly to see how that applies, but I.

G

Think you just raised a really good question and I don't know the answer.

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G

We will dive into that yeah. That's a good question, the district, the district, the district financing plan, I. Think what we've realized is that that's going to take longer than this year 2020 now.

G

What we can have by the end of the year is sort of a sense of what the financing strategy would be in terms of different tools that might be needed for the shared infrastructure, because it's a timing question until we know exactly what the project that approved is and what the mitigations are and really what the infrastructure needs are going to be that that Google's not going to pay for itself but are essentially going to be shared infrastructure.

G

We can't really develop the financing plan so once we have a sense of what the shared infrastructure is, then we need to do like an engineering and a cost study on that to know what it costs and then we'll think about the financing tool. So so that one is probably more of a two-year. We got a first cut out it in 2020 at a strategy level, but the specific financing plan will need to come once. We know what the infrastructure needs are.

C

Ok, thank you very much who's. Next Cathy, please remember Thank You Jeffrey for setting the pace but remind everyone, your name and organization. Thank you. My.

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Name is Cathy Sutherland and I'm from the Domus Park neighborhood.

I

When you talked about the traffic study that is being funded by the grant being limited as to what you couldn't look at. What I'd like to know is how you're going to incorporate the impacts to the areas west of Google, if you're only limited to looking at a certain area. How are you gonna make any kind of traffic study complete rather than fragmented,.

A

Yes, sorry, if I wasn't as clear on that, so the intent is to look at areas beyond it. It's just in terms of having the technical boundary be. It has to correspond to the party development area so I. If anyone from DoD wants to respond in more detail on that.

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So it sounds like the work is not gonna be determined by the ground. The work is going to be determined by impacts and then the the report yeah so I'm, just a little confused yeah.

A

And I will get more clarity on that and get you a more complete answer. Friday do t I, don't want to speak beyond that, but I know that intent is to consider the effects and knowing that plan boundaries are pretty arbitrary, especially with transportation. There is a lot, and so we are very sensitive, especially to the plant 51k whole area with the station changes and the intent is to create more permeability, but then wanting to be thoughtful about what are the implications of that the good, the bad and everything in between.

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So we'll get back to you on a more detailed response. Thank.

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Thanks, yes, your next.

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David Meyer from Silicon Valley at home, I guess I first want to say thanks: I I talked to Lori and David. A couple of these Kamiya means I. Just think it's impressive! How much information you try to cram into those means and how much you try to convey to the public and it's it was really impressive and it's a lot of information and a lot of intersecting things so I think that's great.

K

One thing that I would say is I think that the main barrier and challenge I think to myself is a SAG member and I. Think some other members and this I think also the public still remains that we still don't have a good idea of what the capacity overall capacity goals that were aiming for as part of the whole station area. We have an idea of what Google is looking at. We have some more details from them and that's great it's easy to Ricky.

K

We can kind of play around and think about that a little bit more in depth, but because we still don't really have a sense of what's the overall goal, how much housing are we really trying to create in the station your overall beyond Google? How many jobs are we hoping to create beyond Google, and this is very difficult, I think for us to give good input in terms of Housing Strategy other pieces of the plan, so I guess.

K

My question is at what point is the city hoping to actually be putting forward some ideas of actual capacity so that we can start to better engage on issues like affordable housing, peace parks, pretty much all of the pieces? It's it's kind of hard we're pretty still in a pre, abstract mode. I feel yes,.

G

I I appreciate the frustration because I know there's a lot of excitement around the question: how much additional housing and commercial and other development could we have in the Deardon station area and I just because I just sat down here, just I'm Kim Wallace I'm, a deputy city manager, an economic development director and I'm here, also with Rosalyn Huey, who is our Director of Planning building code enforcement. So we are actively working on that assessment. Our planning staff, the team that that Tim root is leading in conjunction with som and March tene come back.

G

That will be the meeting. Well, we share our initial assessment, but I can say it's looking very positive that for a variety of factors that we could have significantly more capacity for development in the station area than we had envisioned when the plan was adopted. Originally in 2014.

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You Harvey.

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So one of the things that I Harvey remind everyone who you are I'm, sorry remind.

C

Everyone who you are, oh, yes, sorry.

L

Harvey Darnell north will got Neighborhood Association and all things dear Don, one of the things that I talked about earlier and earlier iteration was displacement of people because of the gentrification and our neighborhoods, then both the Gardner North Willow Glen and the Gregory Plaza neighborhoods, being the closest neighborhoods in on the other side of the freeway and still less than half a mile away and I was talking about issues of gentrification and the prices going up and said, etcetera and people being displaced. Because of that.

L

Well, it's now occurring to me that the impact of Airbnb for temporary housing for people that are visiting or working for short term projects for Google and all the other businesses that will be settling there could also create some issues and I think we might have an example where we could study. We could look at the Apple spaceship when they plopped it down in the middle of that neighborhood and see what the effect is and how much of that the surrounding neighborhoods got Airbnb and created displacement.

L

So I think that's something that we should really look at carefully.

G

Yes, I agree, and just so you're aware a number of years ago, the city put in place an Airbnb ordinance or short term rental ordinance, which does constrain the number of days that homeowners can Airbnb their home and requires them to be in the home, and that has various constraints on it. Unfortunately, that.

L

Is not being enforced very well throughout the city, because I have a dear friend who is on his board for his condo association, a fairly large one and they're constantly fighting and they're constantly having to try, try to vet identify the places that are air being beat and there's nowhere within the city that is really going through and monitoring that at this point,.

C

Thank You Harvey, so any other questions or comments on the engagement plan or what we've heard those far yes,.

J

Thanks I'm Kiyomi with Greenbelt Alliance and the answer might be wait till March 18th, but um I wanted to know. I saw on your slide that you're considering comments on the parks, open space and trails and I'm thinking that when you do your analysis of the potential capacity for this plan, that would have an impact on you know what the potential you know for those those amenities would be. Can you speak a little bit more to the process of how you are doing this analysis or you know what the thinking is around that.

M

Hello I'm Rosalyn Huey, as can introduce me director of planning, building and code enforcement, so the issue of parks and open spaces and connectivity.

M

We are considering that as part of the amendment to the Dehradun station area plan and we're currently working very closely with staff in parks, recreation and Neighborhood Services in terms of building from what's currently in the DISA and figuring out with Google's proposal and as we just discussed previously, the additional development city, what the needs are going to be around parks and open spaces and yes, stay tuned because that'll be a part of the information. Our initial findings that will present in March.

C

Great, thank you. Kevin.

N

As we come along here and all this development process like we say that we have all this increased capacity, what has the city been doing or what will the city do with like an emergency plan for like natural disasters like say, earthquakes and also you know, technically, even with the flood improvements that have been made to the Guadalupe River guard. Much of Gardner is still in a hundred-year flood zone which I'm not sure whether that's really the case now or not, but you know so earthquakes and floods and all so.

N

What is the plan for additional fire stations or funding the fire department so that they can actually access fires in some of these high-rise buildings that we're going to be bringing in now that we have building height increases because of the one engine on inoperable limits of being lifted?.

G

Yes, part of the answer is that impact on public services, like fire services and police services, is part of the environmental analysis, and you know in building review and development review. The the fire department is an you know, an integral part of the development services team, Nancy Klein has joined us. A Nancy is a director of real estate and assistant director of economic development. She will have experience in this areas, I'm going to pass the mic to her.

D

Good comments that Kim made there's a both and so through measure. T, there are fire stations that are being added, some of which will already be adding capacity to the downtown and, as Kim mentioned through the environmental, there will be, as we answer the questions about what the overall capacity, what is the need, and where do we need to place those additional resources in order to serve appropriately for the safety of the community.

C

Okay, great thank you. Michael.

K

Michael, that card with down Street, Tennis, Association and also seconds to be voices I'm wondering about I, saw on your slides, but it was briefly brushed over right now. The downtown or the dirt on station area is a big area for the homeless, and then you make their home right there. When we talk about displacement, what are we doing for them? What are we doing for their homeless and the low low income and very low income? I haven't seen anything that you know pertains to that at all. So.

D

There rosin and I were just saying: there's a tremendous amount, that's being done on the affordable housing plan, you're already seeing affordable and supportive housing projects that are being opened in the downtown I think three recently by Spartan keys and two others Central and moving north. So more of that is being provided, we're also working on locations for bridge housing that you you have already heard about, and we're certainly looking for others. We know it's a tremendous problem and we continue to look for how we make sure we're making a dent in that.

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Don't see any other nameplates turned so I'll assume that we're all set with this section of the presentation and we'll transition now to an update on the Google downtown Nicks use plan by Kim, Rosalyn and Nancy.

D

Yes, so, first of all, I didn't get to say.

D

Happy New Year welcome, just very good to see you and Nancy climb closer Thank, You, Nancy Klein I get to do a couple of amazing things that the city I'm, the director of real estate and I, get to work with Kim, as the assistant director of economic development and I'm really happy to be beginning to be able to share and discuss with you how we go about the development agreement as well as included within that is the community benefits plan and and as noted on the slide, the MOU, which was approved in 2018 with Google, provides an excellent starting point for negotiating a future development agreement.

D

The development agreement for those people for most of us who don't work with these on a regular basis, is intended to provide certainty for both the community and for the applicant in this case. Google about the rules, regulations and responsibilities that govern the future development and a development agreement is a very common tool used in a lot of cities for large long term projects.

D

The MOU outlines that the development agreement will include vested project approvals and pardon the jargon, but that's what's called, and the idea is the things that will be included in the development agreement and won't change over the life of that agreement, whereas normally the council can make changes any given Tuesday they sit down. There is a sense of stability and certainty to allow the development to proceed and it would hold things like you see, just they'll be more, but just brief. Examples like traffic capacity, design, guidelines, the affordable housing plan.

D

Others are densities in general, maximum square, footages Heights those kinds of things can be quote, unquote vested rights, that's the jargon, the term of art and the community benefits plan, which will definitely be a part of this development agreement will implement an allocation of funds for community benefits by category and the category.

D

The conversation that has been a lot- and we will be working together over the next year, plus to solidify things that you already know about and they'll also come up again in the presentation: affordable, housing, displacement, jobs, historic preservation, art the other things that have come directly from SOG as well as other community input. The other portions of the community benefit plan will identify the timing, phasing for community benefits so that the community will know specifically and be able to call a hold ghoul and City accountable for delivery of the community benefits.

D

I wanted to include the language from the MOU itself and I understand that you, you have the MOU in your packet of materials in your binders, to remind you that on page 7 to 8, this is a little bit of an encapsulation that the way we'll figure out values here is that the city would expect Google to share a portion of the value created by City. Council actions with the city through a community benefits plan, and there will be- is a couple places where we notice this.

D

That you all know the broader community will continue to learn from you changes that the city will make to the dirt on station area plan that include more capacity, different land use areas and changes, increased heights or densities, parking policy changes at a certainty of a development agreement.

D

We will calculate and review with you the homework on how those translate into value and that the Google will share back a portion and I, don't have a specific number for you now, but will look to other das and other communities and, what's appropriate from our community they'll share that back with San Jose, so that those dollars will be attributed to the community benefits as identified through SOG and other community input.

D

What we were also careful to do and Google is, is clearly a participant in the MOU and understands that the following cost won't be included. They can't be included in the dollars for community benefits, costs for mitigation impacts under sequa or cost for project design. Other project elements, project components that that are proposed by Google that aren't necessarily that they desire or emphasis of the city in the community costs incurred to meet city standard requirement, like parks fees or a for baseline, affordable housing fees, conditions of approval fees or taxes.

D

None of that will be allocated to community benefits. The next slide.

G

So we thought it was important to define some key terms because we've been talking about community benefits, some other places and other people talk about public benefits. So we put together this framework and thought we would spend little time on it and it relates to the information Nancy just provided because we're trying to get at what really is this space for pure community benefits that really are related to the development agreement?

G

So it's the existence of the development agreement under California law that allows a community to ask for community benefits in return for the development agreement, so, but it occurred to us that benefits to the public from the project actually come from three different sources and there's value very early on in the negotiation, because we are just starting now in in sorting through this.

G

So the circle on the left is the things that Google will be required to do, and these are baseline, City requirements, the kind of requirements that we would require of any development or any similar development in this city. So things that come to mind are the parks, PDO pio requirement right. That's in our code. It's very specific what the requirement is: there's flexibility of how you meet the requirement, but you must meet this requirement. Another example would be the inclusionary housing requirement.

G

You need to meet that requirement, we're likely to put a commercial impact fee in place. You need to meet play the commercial impact fee. As Nancy said, we have parking requirements so those kinds of things that are basic city requirements and we've been clear all along in the MOU that, if they're basic city requirements, Google will be expected to meet them. Like everybody else, there also will be project mitigation.

G

So after we see the results of the environmental analysis, there may be some specific requirements of mitigation requirements of Google to address the impact that the project it has. So typically, you may have some requirements related to transportation or infrastructure or habitat or Public Safety public services, but those won't be known for a few more months until we see that draft environmental impact report.

G

But you see what I'm trying to say that the circle there are like requirements, things that Google has to do on the bottom there, and- and my point- is that benefits to the public will come from some of those things right.

G

We will get improved trails, we will get parks, we will get money for affordable housing, we will get bike lanes, so some of the things will come just from the city requirements or we will experience those as benefits to the public, the bottom circle there, the Google project itself, will have features that will be positive for our community, but those those are things that Google is deciding on their own, that they want to do it's sort of voluntary.

G

It's that their discretion, the biggest one that comes to mind right now is district district utility systems and the very very high environmental sustainability standards and initiatives that Google is going to do. City thinks this is great, but we're not requiring to Google to do this, though they're gonna do it, because that's just the kind of company they are they want to set a high bar. There will clearly benefit as a community that they're doing that it will be help us meet our climate.

G

Smart goals and it'll clearly be beneficial to our environment, so the third circle there. These are the things when we say community benefits. These are the the benefits that we will negotiate, that they're, not the baseline requirements, they're, not the environmental mitigation they're, not things that Google is doing voluntarily on their own. So this is where all of the input, the extensive input that we have gotten the last year and a half and we will be drilling down more with some additional questions for you at the March meeting.

G

This is where those things start to come into play. Things like additional, affordable housing over and above or deeper than the city requirements, Workforce Development investment investment and the things like you that you potentially you mentioned, or protection protection preservation, anti displacement. Maybe there are cultural spaces or library spaces or things that we mutually decide.

G

Childcare, like that, are priorities that could be a community benefit or at times, if they're going to enhance a basic city requirement or advance it deliver it much early earlier than they typically would. Those kinds of things can be considered community benefit, so we just wanted to share this with you. It's quite frankly. It took us a while to sort this out and it's really important to make sure that we're standardized on the terminology that we're using in our community for this so back to unity,.

D

Thank You Kim, so on the next slide.

D

There there's a brief listing of the.

D

The the list of affordable housing education work for small business opportunity. These are things we've heard very deeply from you and we'll keep listening and keep making greater distinctions and, what's the most important to the community, and then we also wanted to make sure we were including again directly from the MOU the city's expectation of community benefit. We went over this.

D

A little bit would be premise: taun, among other factors, the additional value that Google receives from the legislative acts that the community and the City Council takes, and that's where I went through that list of changes to the DA general plan, amendments, parking changes, etc. These will enhance the value and also, very importantly, the value of the certainty of a development agreement. These will provide the base for estimating the value the created that would be created, plus it will take into account the residual value or the price of the land that Google paid for.

D

Lastly, in the.

N

D

And, as you already have, we, we take into account the financial viability of the project as a consideration. Moving forward.

D

Lastly, the consideration for ongoing direction and engagement- the council has been very clear, will consider previous and subsequent input provided by the SOG, the general public key stakeholders and the City Council when developing the community benefits plan, and that input will continue through the rounds of the humming honeycomb input that Laurie shared with you earlier and will get the input on the amount and use of community benefit funds and will provide periodic and specific reports to this body, including the opportunity to review and provide in a public forum on a final community benefits and development agreement in Larry.

D

Laurie shared a little bit of the schedule. For that, and one more highlight of the timing is that in spring we want to bring to you. Some community benefit trade offs that we're working on now and will bring to you. So you can give us direct input on what's a most important and in summer, there'll be additional status and feedback and in the fall we'll be bringing to you. The final draft of the development agreement and with that I will turn this over to the very capable Rosalyn Huey.

M

So last fall, as you all know, Google submitted its mixed use, development plan and that application did not include specific building designs and we heard from from residents and stakeholders and four members of the saag that you were very much interested in seeing this information. So this evening we wanted to provide you with our current thinking around how the city intends to review the building designs.

M

So we are considering an approach that is very similar to our typical project process for large development projects, but it's different in some ways due to its size and the duration of the build-out and the context. So we're talking about eighty acres of land, a very large development with a 10-year minimum build-out time. So we're it's a very large project and it's going to be built out over several years.

M

So first I want to review Google's current planning applications and, as you're probably aware, it includes a plan, development zoning- and this is a customized zoning district that establishes land uses and Zoning Development standards such as maximum Heights parking requirements and development capacity.

M

It also includes a planned development permit before I. Go to that I should say that the planned development zoning district is often chosen by developers who do very large projects and our city staff. We actually process planned development zonings all across the city, so it's not a new zoning district.

M

So then, secondly, is the plan development permit and the planned permit actually implements the planned development zoning and includes an additional level of detail such as ground floor uses, landscaping, circulation, more details on built, building, Heights bulk and size and architectural detail.

M

So for the Google project, the planned development permit will include a very detailed set of design standards and guidelines, so very specific items that would include building massing materials, types of materials, colors, ground, floor design, transit access, view, corridors, pedestrian and bicycle connectivity, there'll be specifics on even lighting and signage and building facade and, of course, specifics on the public realm.

M

So, following the entitlement phase, the city would use these design standards and guidelines that are included in the plan. Development permit to conduct design review of the individual buildings specifically Google would submit an application to the Planning Division that would include the site plans and designs for individual buildings or phases. Then staff would review the application for completeness and for compliance with the plan.

M

Development, zoning and the planned development permit, as well as the general plan staff, would then prepare a staff report and we would hold a public hearing to present the building designs, staffs analysis and we would also take public comments.

M

So before I get to this side, so this this process and the approach that we're thinking about, we think it would allow us to develop very specific standards and guidelines for how each individual building will look and function and relate to its surroundings, and this really does build upon the work in the downtown design, standards and guidelines, as well as the amended Dehradun station area plan, and also, we think this approach will also allow for some flexibility and creativity over the multi-year build-out.

M

So there this process and approach- it's not new they're. Very there are other examples actually across the state that have been successful, such as pier 70 in San, Francisco, Mission Rock, also in San Francisco and North Hollywood and Los Angeles.

M

So, given that the design standards and guidelines document is intended to guide, building and site design over the life of the entitlements, this year is very an important time to get public input on the design. So Google is hosting a series of community workshops to get input on public spaces and building design as they develop their initial draft and the next workshop will be held on January 25th 1 to 4:30 p.m.

M

at South Adams at 20, South, Adams, Street and there'll be two sessions and for those of you who are interested in attending this workshop, we have the email address here that you can respond to.

M

So once Google submits the draft design standards and guidelines to the Planning Division, we will also conduct a thorough review in coordination with the other dareth on aerial work and can conduct additional outreach. So, throughout the process we shall progress with the members of the SAG and as well as the public as part of the planned rounds of outreach and community engagement, and we are. We have tentative topics for the spring round which is designed priorities in the summer.

M

We would provide a progress, update and then fall of this year. We will have the draft design standards and guidelines document.

C

Thank you very much so before I forget we're gonna have one more presentation. Then it's gonna be public comment time. So, if you haven't had a chance to turn in a comment card, please do and with that I'm going to turn it over to you all as the saag to ask any questions comments, we'll start with Nadia.

J

Nadia's with the law foundation of Silicon Valley I have some questions about the timeline of negotiations like when, when has that started, when does that start and I'm assuming it's OAD, that's negotiating the benefits and they, in addition, aside from the sog, are you going to be asking any feedback about the community of a development plan from like any other community input?

J

I can understand that you're doing community outreach to get to understand what to put into that, but like post, developing a community benefits or thinking through community benefits, are you going to be doing any other community outreach or an input aside.

D

From sock all great questions, so as Kim mentioned, we are, we are in a place now that we have the development plan in and it going through the analysis that we're able to start the discussion and honestly, we still have some questions about what the plan is or isn't or you know, for example, it all identifies the FAA height universe uniformly, and we know all the buildings won't go up so understanding as much as we can so so in beginning that converse station, we've already committed that there will be additional groups in addition to to the SAG that want to hear about.

D

What's going on, I, don't know exactly what those will be, but that opportunities for input will will will consider where we'll work together as the time proceeds and not if I missed something else there I apologize did I miss something else that you referenced I.

J

Think it was who's doing the negotiation so.

D

This is, this is important. It's a very. The core team will will be Office of Economic Development, and we have some really good consultants who are working with us who have broad experience in other places, not only in California but in the nation, so that we wanted to make sure. We were well prepared, we're also very mindful of having our City Department partners, because we want to make sure the baseline is understood and that the community benefits, as Kim described in the public benefits.

D

Community benefits circles go beyond so we want to make sure we're understanding that set of distinctions and that the community benefits reflect what we're hearing from the community, and it is beyond that the baseline, so they're an appropriate components of the negotiation. There will be key partners in the departments who, like the affordable housing plan, is a great one will be including Jackie and her staff and.

A

To respond to the outreach piece, the intent is that the saag meetings in March, June August, would kick off an outreach round and the materials we develop. First AAG we would roll into the community meetings and the other types of events we do. Hopefully some online engagement so we'll develop a toolkit of engagement, so that would include the any feedback we're seeking on community benefits that will be I offered to the congenital public for feedback as well.

C

Thank you we'll go to Kathy and then to Harvey.

I

Thank you very much. Kathy Sutherland from delmas Park I had a couple of different questions. One of them is regarding the vested benefits. How do you determine what is a vested benefit and has the city used this term before all.

D

The time okay, so one of them, that's public, that you might want to look up when we did the Hitachi Western Digital, which.

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D

Some we talk about it as our first horizontal urban village, okay, that had enhanced affordability, record ability, requirements and vested elements. It's very, very common. It's part of every development agreement and it's just the basis of what what do both parties, the community and the applicant understand- will be hold steady over the term. The life of the development agreement, okay,.

I

Thank you and then the other one is. You talked about increasing density and value capture and I, hear it referring only to Google what about the other parcels that are within the area that are receiving the same benefit? What is the obligation going to be for them? That's.

D

A great question: the DHing, a development agreement and certainty is the tool, the mechanism that allows the city to receive or extract. If you will community benefits, not all projects will have community will have community benefits and one of the other or another set of tools. When the question came about financing, there may well be community facilities, district CFDs or you've heard of enhanced infrastructure districts, a ifts that contribute those would have to be a part of a broader set of properties.

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G

Let me also add last December last year, when we counsel gave the authority to raise the heights in the Deardon station area, they directed us to study and explore an incentive zoning program for the Deardon station area and the intent of that is to explore exactly the issue that you're raising Kathy. So for for Google, we have the specific da mechanism, but what about the other developers in the station area, whether it's a residential or other office, industrial commercial?

G

They stand to benefit from the increased heights also, so we we are exploring that we're doing the feasibility analysis, it's dependent on the capacity question of where our Heights going to be raised by how much. But we intend, at that study session in April to report back to Council about the capacity of putting some program in for the rest of the Deardon station area, so that if, if they are getting additional height, should they be expected to contribute something right?

G

Over and above paying, inclusionary housing requirement on additional units, or over and above paying kershel impact fee on additional square footage? Is there room to have some other sort of benefit? Coming back to the community or would doing that disincentivize height right so that that's the kind of analysis that we're doing, because we also don't want to preclude or put barriers up to developers going as high as possible.

I

One of the other thoughts that goes through my mind is City. Council is always weighing decisions on forgiving fees for for the development of 20-story high-rise buildings, and so.

I

Will there be a fair look at capturing some of that additional value when council currently commonly discusses reducing fees, yeah you're.

G

Right so we've projected for the next foreseeable several years that high-rise residential is infeasible in the downtown that the your costs of constructing an average high-rise compared to the rents that are going to be gained. It just does not pencil out. So it's kind of interesting question: well how if it doesn't pencil out in downtown now, how might it pencil out in the dirt on station area it's in the future? Well, we have to happen to rents or construction costs in order for it to be feasible.

G

It's an interesting and fair question and that's something that we're looking at okay.

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Harvey Darnell North.

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L

Again, Neighborhood Association I did like it start, I'm, also wearing a hat as a board. Member of San Jose, Parks advocate and I have looked at the plans and they're kind of nebulous and I see green spots and what-have-you, but when I talked to a lot of the park staff, they don't quite understand and also planning staff. They don't necessarily understand where we are really going to have the additional parkland in this area and I'm concerned that some of the park land may be publicly privately owned, publicly accessible spaces and that that becomes a potential.

L

If I heard a on the internet last yesterday that Jeff's Google bazo's gave a lecture to all his employees. That Google could not give me Amazon could potentially go bankrupt and that that companies in this age are only around for 20-30 years and and you know, and he it was a pep talk to get them to be customers and friendly, etcetera, etc. But it got me thinking that you know I love, Google, but Google could have some issues and you know it could be coming out of DC. They may break them up.

L

I mean you know, all kinds of things could happen and if we have publicly a privately owned, publicly accessible Park land as part of this agreement, I want to make sure that it doesn't become a land bank for some other entity later. That can then just sell it off. Since the city of San Jose won't have titled. So what can we do to make sure that anything that is potentially green on the map? Who no matter who owns the title and who does the maintenance is continues in perpetuity as parkland.

D

I'm not sure who you might be chatting with it parks, but park staff is very, very clear on several different scenarios that could meet the Quimby act and the baseline requirements and and planet park staff has begun to formulate what an ideal Park situation would be so I just want to make sure you know that there are is a lot of thought going into that from the park staff point of view and there's plenty of opportunities for that to happen in a multiple scenarios, ways, and we definitely hear what you're saying about ensuring long-term, that everybody has access to dear Don and to greenspace whether it become trail, whether it's plazas, whether it's parks itself.

D

So we don't know exactly what that answer is yet or exactly what the mix and formulation is. But we understand the notion of having, what's with the community, not be a short-lived commitment.

C

Thank you very much. We're gonna go to Sondra, then we'll come back to you. Michelle.

J

Hi Sondra Webber plant 51.

J

Discussion about the transportation.

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J

With the expanded scope it out in the studies, can you just I'm trying to think about timeline, because when we're looking at the dwindling opportunity for feedback? So when we, when we hear the results of the Transportation Study I'm, just hoping that that gives us enough time to get feedback, if there's any amended or changes in transportation, Thanks.

C

Thank you very much, there will be, is what I'm being told there will be so we're gonna go to Elizabeth and then to Geoffrey.

J

Lisbon Hale found us a little residents association. um All the sides I see that there are some City led engagement where the city staff is always here. They also sound Google led engagement, so one thing I noticed and then again, I don't know. This is something the city can apply a little bit of a vice or pressure on Google. What I've noticed that most of your engagement activities are run by contractors, which may be fine, but there is always that feeling that the contractors in common go its outsource.

J

That way really not getting direct access to Google and perhaps the real decision-makers I mean. Perhaps they do have the power to do so. I don't know, but you know there's always that feeling I'm not talking to any. Maybe a few people on Google, mostly just their contractors,.

G

Yeah, there is a lot of expertise that is needed to brought in to do a project like this, both on the city side and the Google side. But I can assure you there is a core set of Google employees like Ricardo and Ava.

J

Who are probably here right now.

G

You know who are who are there and who are guiding the effort and who are doing you know deep listening, I mean I spot them and when I show up so.

J

A

And the Google is actually partnered with lend-lease they're a developer, but also they're the ones leading the engagement. So a lot of times when you talk to lend-lease, they are just as much a part of this as Google, even though they don't have the brand recognition that Google might.

G

And I just want it correct. You can see that the partnership there so ava is with lend-lease and Ricardo is with Google and they are joined at the hips and in this community every single day.

C

Thank you very much. Jeffrey.

F

Thanks for in December at the council meeting, you know there were some questions from the community around how the community benefits process a play out and and when we'll understand some of this financial analysis. The commitment from your team to bring that forward before the April study session really appreciate that also appreciate the summary of of the product. Your understanding, the priorities so far, I think for us is working partnerships and some of our coalition partners and Silicon Valley rising.

F

You know when we've talked with hundreds of residents across the city, it's pretty clear that you know: affordable housing and addressing displacement is really you know the top priority and ensuring you know those kinds of workforce development opportunities. So people can have the better incomes to be able to stay in the city and enjoy all the rest of the other features of this development. So I appreciate the listening on those elements and and look forward to the continuing engagement, but a question on the the project features kind of question.

F

So what would you consider? Would you consider the in the planning document submitted so far?

F

Those items that are there spelled out explicitly those are those are features or or just trying to get an understanding for for those of us with with what documents that are out there now, how do we kind of assess features based off of the fact that there are some specifics of the plan that will be coming forward in perhaps later iterations, and so, if we try to understand what that baseline is of the the project features, is there and realize it's probably more art than science here kind of some way to articulate that to help us think about that.

G

Yes, I mean there's a project description for the for the e IR, which is the the best description of what the project is. I, guess, I'm, just making a general point that there are things that maybe it's subjective that are in the project that the public would think are a benefit right.

G

So the fact that there's a lot of retail in the project, the fact that these district energy use systems are going to be an entirely new model that may bring a certain amount of resilience and climate smart benefits, those kinds of things that might be in the eye of the beholder but I was just making more of a general general point. Yeah.

F

And and so similarly with say, the the features outlined in like the a B 900 application, I think that's kind of what you were alluding to with the district utilities and sustainability features. Those would be considered. Project features yeah.

G

In the sense that we're not requiring Google to do that, Google is voluntarily saying that we want to create these new models and we want to overachieve California's already and San. Jose is already very high environmental standards right. We think that's a great thing, great.

F

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C

Other thoughts comments folks, yes, Edward.

B

Some Shasta Han chef, Park Neighborhood Association, just want to give a brief a statement. Thank you for the presentation. One thing this is obviously a lot of information not only for the SAG members, but for the public to kind of absorb.

B

If you want to find one document that comparatively briefly gets you a lot of that information at once, Roslin's memo from January 7th about the early referral that was actually presented at the HLC meeting yesterday, which was included in Laurie's email to the sag members and as I believe on deer, not SJ, dot or, and yes, it's 64 pages.

B

But it's not hundreds of pages, and it gets the vast majority of what people have been hearing here in one concise document, so that I think is a valuable resource for people that want to be able to get some information without feeling overwhelmed so especially, but essentially for maybe members of the public. That's a good resource to be able to find as well. Thank.

G

You for that Edward I mean we recognize. This is the most complicated project. Any of us have ever worked on our entire careers. There are a lot of pieces that are interdependent, that that are coming together and and need to come together, and so this team is working very, very hard to try to be good communicators and to try to distill a lot of complexity and kind of honor. The fact that everybody runs to really understand this, but keep it as as clear as possible.

G

What we're doing here and I want to give a huge shout out to Laurie, suberino and Dave from plan to place, because the the Garanimals I call them the color-coded, the honeycombs for the projects and the different activities and all these communications activities and the website and the handouts I'm getting positive feedback. That's really helping people under get their arms around what we're doing here and how it all relates together. So thank you and if you ever have feedback on where we can do better, we really want it because we're very very committed to that.

G

C

Thank you very much Kim and the other questions before we transition to the next topic.

C

Seeing none so we're gonna go ahead and transition now to the deer town, integrated station concept plan and liz is going to come up for that.

P

Okay, sure you can everybody hear me. Okay, there we go hi everybody happy new year, I'm Elizabeth Scanlon I'm, the program manager for the dear Don concept plan. It's good to be here tonight to give you an update on what's been happening on our station planning process.

P

So many of you may have seen over the course of the last. Maybe I don't know eight weeks or so we we've been out in the community doing a couple of presentations that started at the joint policy. Advisory Board in mid-november and I just want to also make a note.

P

I think Laurie mentioned it, but I do want to give a little nod that if anyone is interested in the JPA be presentation or additional material on anything I'm going to present tonight, because I I am doing a bit of a summary presentation, we do have an online Town Hall.

P

That was a narrated kind of slide show, and that was that's on the dear Don SJ website, or the city's website for the December 3rd City Council meeting has a fairly in-depth 120, something slideshow that, if you're interested in any more information, there's a couple places on the website and online to check and check out I'm going to talk about some upcoming events that many of you may want to participate in. So with that.

P

So we've kind of been through this before, but just a quick refresher right for agency partners who came together to co-create a plan for dear dawn, because there's many intersecting capital projects happening, including Bart and Caltrans, electrification and whatnot, and these four partners have formally entered into a cooperative agreement. So they are bound together in doing this work to create an integrated project and their goal is really. You know to create a vision for the future of the station, and we've talked about this many times over.

P

The last couple of maybe the last year about creating seamless transportation connections to have efficient movements through into the station and creating a world-class destination for San Jose. So our touch stones throughout the planning process that we went through over the course of the last year or so year and a half maybe are shown here on the screen, which included creating a catalyst for design, multimodal great connections creating a destination for San Jose. So these are all items that we kept referring back to throughout the planning process to kind of help guide.

P

You know the best options that met that hold the most promise to meet our objectives for the future vision of the station and so kind of what has been happening. Many of you've seen us present at this forum. Over the last year. We did start last fall. I can't believe it was actually over a little. Over a year ago, we started we started with understanding ambitions right. The partner agencies wanted to know sort of explore themselves what their collective ambitions are, as well as requirements and objectives.

P

We talked a lot about options for different elements, so the tracks, the Caltrain and high speed and heavy rail corridor tracks, where the different elements would go attached to different configurations of the station itself. We did go out into the community I think in June was it June. Gosh last year seems so far away.

P

Now it was last summer we showed possible layouts the different combinations that sort of showed a spectrum of different trade-offs or benefits with the station and over the summer time we did continue to optimize layouts and we have presented at the end of last year, a concept layout all throughout that process.

P

I just want to know we did a lot of community engagement and got a lot of feedback from the community to kind of affirm, and course correct and guide and shape the planning process, and so we talked a little bit about, and these are terribly hard to read, I apologize that the colors are washed, but the big moves. What we call the big moves in the cater parts and you can see the Northern Rail alignment, a southern rail alignment, how those two track corridors relate to the station location and the vertical position of the platform.

P

So whether the platforms are at grade or whether they're slightly elevated and then when you think about the kit of parts, how those big moves all fit together and then layer in the different kit of so we're the VTA bus and light rail intercity buses go where buck bikes and heads and all the access modes little consideration over parking and how park you might work in the future as well as it didn't show it on. There is usually an airport connector icons.

P

We are considering the future of the aircar Airport connector in it sort of not to preclude that potential. So we presented what we call the concept layout and remember. This is about Lego building blocks. So this is really about spatial organization of what the station might look like in the future right how the different modes are. Organized and I want to point out on the image you're, seeing here that the sort of dashed lines that look like a lid has been lifted off. The station is really to just indicate illustratively a potential future station.

P

Canopy I got asked that during the course of the last round, outreach that we were out, and so what is what is that is that the canopy being really high in the air? It's just to sort of imagine the lid got lifted off, so we can see inside the station and it's going to get a little bit bigger.

P

As Laurie said earlier, to enable the capacity envisioned by the Caltrain and high-speed business plans, we will expand the footprint to five platforms and ten tracks, which is a little bit wider than what it is today and this layout we elected to go with. In fact, let me just scroll through, because I think we've got a slide for each of the major decisions we made.

P

You can see the caramel I'll walk through this one step at a time. So one of the first decisions we framed and and asked for staff made a recommendation. We asked the four policy bodies to to sort of concur. Whether accept is an elevated station concept, and so this is raising the station slightly up in the air. We have a couple of images that are just to help.

P

You get a feel for what the idea of raising the station might feel like, so we're standing at West, Santa Clara looking to the west- and this is what we might imagine elevated station tracks- could feel like or look like as we're outside this si P Center. So you can really see the corridors visible through West today up to the west side of the Alameda right.

P

So we can now see through the tracks, to the other side connecting and enabling really good connections from the uses and the new development to the east over to the west residential areas. And if we're looking from San Fernando back towards downtown, we might imagine that when the station tracks are elevated, we have a very great view corridor down. San Fernando Street, which we imagine could be the bike and pedestrian corridor and really become the activated kind of multi-use corridor for for bikes, scooters, skateboarders pedestrians and all those great things and.

A

P

Say on this image, just a note that we we haven't completely figured out what will happen with white street. This makes it look like maybe buses and such are gonna kind of be able to traverse under the guide way we're still figuring out. This is very conceptual at this point, lots of work to be done, but we're just trying to imagine. What's the benefit of reason, the tracks up in the air to the urban to the urban experience right. The next decision is station. Concourse is oriented really to Santa Clara and San Fernando Street.

P

We really spent a lot of time in layouts last year, looking at the different types of maybe having a single station entrance hall oriented in different locations, and we landed on really thinking that Santa Clara in San Fernando are very important. Corridors. Santa Clara, probably is the most active with buses.

P

Cars and lots of different multi-use multi uses on that Street San Fernando, like I just mentioned, could become the more kind of pedestrian bike corridor they're, both kind of anchoring access to and through the station, from downtown to the west side, and vice versa, and so we think it's important to have a station entrance, which you can kind of see are illustrated by the little black arrows on this image.

P

And so, if we anchor the station with two kind of main entrance halls facing downtown and two facing the west side, we start to fill in the kit of parts around it. We can imagine that bikes and peds can be very conveniently located right out front of the the san fernando entrance. The BART station now has a very, very direct sort of clear connection to the the Santa Clara entrance.

P

We can imagine that the VTA bus and light rail are oriented right out front and are easily accessible by both entrances, we're still again kitta parts or things that we will continue to refine develop over time. We'll be working quite extensively with not just the four partners, but the downtown West plan to integrate these really well. I will say on the light rail we envision that could go underground and combine the two stations that are sort of in the Deardon area into a single station, oriented underground right out front.

P

So when you walk off the Caltrain platforms, are you you come to the station? You could go down one level and easily catch our light. Rail train we're still going to be working into that over the next phase of work, but that's kind of the thinking now and we are playing around a little bit with maybe how to use white Street in some way as a corridor available to us. Could we connect through and underneath the new guideway structure?

P

How can we utilize that space now that we've created by lifting the tracks up and then there's some placeholders in terms of taxis, TNCs and other uses? This again will get integrated better with our our partners in the downtown West Plains. We're still going to be working through kind of how the transportation network can really well integrate to serve and support the station.

P

But this gives us a framework now to sort of work from as we as we move forward through the planning and additional engineering and I want to just give a kind of an indication that Laureen mentioned a couple of areas that we heard a lot of feedback and I constantly say to folks.

P

This planning process is going to raise a lot more questions than it answers, so we know that there's still going to be a lot of questions of how all this will work, and this is just giving us a good foundation to build from open the airport, connector future airport connector.

P

We don't want to put curly preclude that so the third final, the sort of third decision we framed up at the end of last year was a recommendation by the staff to maintain the track approaches generally within existing northern and southern rail corridors into and through tear down the station, and just roughly. This is an overview. What that looks like so that would stay largely within the Caltrain corridor. Coming from the north, from San Francisco into deer, Don seem off.

P

The Cal train maintenance facility is contemplated to be relocated in this concept layout to some point south that will be to be determined. We need to study that and then going to the south. The the rail quarter would largely stay within the caracal tree known right away and also as partly and some locations south of camión by Union, Pacific and I want to just say this.

P

There is a this was an item that in let's seek my slides kind of indicate this I guess we had a lot of debate over the track approaches in particular last month, and that was an area that the San Jose City Council particular falt, wasn't ready for an acceptance. Yet so we will be doing an extensive City Council study session on January 28th. To further talk about the rail corridors, we did look at a I, 285 duct option, and so this is a little bit of a advertisement to come to.

P

The study session will present pretty extensively about the 280 and the existing rail corridor to provide more information to the community and have another sort of more robust dialogue. So just a quick recap on outreach. Again, we did a workshop on the big moves. We talked a lot about layouts and tract alignments. In September we did a JPA B update in November virtual Town Hall that all led into the sort of policy body presentations.

P

I will also say that, because the council felt they weren't ready to accept our recommendation on the existing corridor, the other three partners also deferred that decision, and so all four partners are on the same page in terms of not feeling like we got to where we need to be and exploring the rail alignment so those those decisions are yet to be made on in terms of the final kind of outcome of the rail corridor.

P

So, as I mentioned, we're going to be doing a study session at the end of the this month and a couple weeks and so we'll be presenting more information, we did do a pretty extensive presentation at City Council in December. So if you want to check that information out, it's a good foundational piece, we'll we'll take that we're going to have that again. But a lot of that information and the council did ask us to bring back some additional information, so we'll have that into some in the end of January.

P

So in terms of next steps, if we can imagine that we do sort of get to a space where we've got some general alignment over these three big decisions, again sort of raising the tracks station entrances at Santa, Clara and San Fernando and staying within the existing corridor track alignment selection.

P

The next steps in the concept plan will be to continue planning all the kit apart. So we have a lot of work to do to continue to work on the model elements and that would include advancing conceptual design of track alignments, light realignments, all those good things, but there's also a bit of work to do and I think some folks on this body have asked in the past about program, management and governance and funding and financing very.

A

P

Important ideas that we need to work on in earnest in 2020, so we will be studying how best to organize the partner agencies to deliver this program and ultimately own operate, maintain the facility in the future. So that will be a pretty significant work stream and as part of that, we need to understand how we might fund it and ultimately finance it in the operation.

P

Maintenance phases as well, so we'll be working on that and then what we really hope will come out of sort of the combined multimodal planning effort and the governance and funding studies is a roadmap for implementation. We're starting to see that Deardon is a complex program of projects, moving maintenance facilities, rejiggering a huge station raising tracks, that's all very complex multi-year infrastructure investments. So we need to have a good roadmap for how we're going to do that over time and through all of that, we'll continue to engage stakeholders in the community.

P

This body throughout the process. So I know that was a very kind of brief overview and I'm happy to take questions or receive any feedback. Great.

C

Thank you this, as she mentioned. This is your chance now to give us any comments, suggestions, questions a lot of great information being shared here tonight. Nothing.

K

There we go Harvey.

C

You were first to turn your card up, so go hard. I.

P

Didn't think I was gonna, get off that easy come on Harvey.

L

Darnell north we'll look that Neighborhood Association and all things of railroads and.

L

You're aware of the comments that I made in the council meeting in it at the disc meetings and all the other meetings that attended on this I'm really concerned that you've come to a decision as staff that you have to come because of whatever reasons that you have to come through. The north will Glenn, Gardner and and Gregory Plaza neighborhoods at great, and that you are going to take currently what is about 52 passenger trains a day and in the not in the near future, maybe get up to 200.

L

And then eventually, your projections are 450 trains through the neighborhood I'm concerned that you're saying that you can sandwich this in very neatly and not lose much of fuller. Park not have much effect on the houses on fuller and you're, saying that you'll have no effect on Jerome, well I'm, here to tell you that the houses in Jerome are 20 to 30 feet from the track.

L

There is very little right away behind to the north of the rail so that you would have to basically take most of those people's backyards, if not the houses completely along about 30 houses or something like that, 35. Whatever Kevin, it was a little better than I and I'm concerned that we have a lot of secondary units behind the houses that are not legal.

L

Quite yet, but we've just passed an ordinance to grandfather and forgive forgiveness, ordinance to potentially bring those into legality and there you are low-income housing and we could definitely make the low-income housing in our neighborhood totally unbearable, because you bring that many trains that close to their buildings. So I'm concerned that you know the pictures that you've shown along the way make it look really nice and it would be no effects and yeah yeah.

L

There's less noise from a electric crane initially than a diesel train, but I'm concerned that, like everything else in the Bay Area, for example, Bart Bart was very quiet when it first started and then they let it go for 4050 years and now they're having to relay all the tracks because they didn't do proper maintenance along the way and they didn't have money for upgrade of the equipment.

L

So I'm concerned that we're going to get a another blight on this neighborhood, and this is a neighborhood that has suffered since the railroad came through in nineteen thirty thirty-two, and this was a neighborhood that the council just heard a presentation about a month ago about how this neighborhood was redlined. Because of that decision and I can tell you, I know about that. Redlining, because when I first bought in in 1983, my house didn't qualify for FHA financing, because they've redline, the neighborhood so I'm concerned that what we now we've taken.

L

This neighborhood brought it up through the sni process and all the other processes that have come along and 20 years of community work, and we potentially would get another situation where this neighborhood gets redlined again.

P

I I hear you yes, I, think that it's important to say the partner agencies are concerned about effects on the neighborhood as well as you know, and we've said that we want to not make it any worse and hopefully make it better. I would say: there's a lot of technical background that we could get into tonight. I, don't really have the slides for that I hate to defer to the study session, but that's the whole point is to sort of tackle what you're raising Harvey, because those are good points about.

P

Do we really think we can get that much trained volume in the existing corridor and really do much to effect mitigating those effects, and we want to share our thoughts on that and the council asked us a lot of questions about. Can we get all the trains out of the neighborhood? Could we get most of the trains out of the neighborhood? Can we do something to relieve the the concern, and so we're going to come with a fairly extensive presentation about answering, hopefully answering a lot of those questions and having continued dialogue on them?

P

Is that okay for everybody for me to sort of say that much and then we we will be presenting more information at the January study session to kind of get into the details behind the differences that we see and how we might be doing. That and.

L

Seeing that it has taken us 30 years from when we made a decision to bring Bart to San Jose that we have maybe 30 years, maybe even longer, to get it to downtown to dear Don I'm concerned that all the people that are making the decisions and making the promises are not going to be here right.

P

L

Protect us yeah.

P

C

You Harvey now I want to just reassure you all that all these comments, diana is quickly typing all these up we're taking detailed notes as well. So this will all come back up to this summary. As you move this meeting forward.

N

C

Gonna go to Kevin then to Edward, then to Dan.

N

Okay, two comments: one just kind of piggybacking off those.

C

Killed sigh, real quick, Kevin, Chrisman.

N

Gardner Neighborhood Association and an awful lot of things railroad so like Harvey. The first time I ran into the railroad situation was when we were planning on possibly making a park out of fuller Park early sni days. That was back in 2002 and we actually met with some of the higher speed rail folks back then, and they pretty much guaranteed us that we would never have any problems with them because they wouldn't take our Park lands, because the Redevelopment Agency didn't want to spend the money to make a park then to unmake a park.

N

So I've been on this for a long time and been concerned about it piggybacking off. Of what Harvey said.

N

It's not only what you're doing now, but it's future development as well, because if you get the trains going through our neighborhoods now and then you decide to expand later on, it will obliterate the park and the houses on both sides of the track. You don't you're not going to try and fool me on that one, but my biggest beef tonight is on the one element here on.

N

One year's slides, I think it's 69 meetings with community groups and I attended a community meeting that was for the gardener, Academy Parent Teacher group, which is largely Latino, so the meeting was bilingual English in Spanish and presentation, understandably, was not very.

N

Sophisticated because you weren't, you were talking with people who had not run into the trains before, but the level of the presentation was I thought very disingenuous and so much that really when you, the people who made the presentation, went and went through the at grade proposal versus the aerial proposal, the extent of the expo explanation that they showed was out. They showed this nice little picture, the gardener Academy and they said well. This is what it looks like now and if we do an aerial proposal that goes out over to 80 to 87.

N

This is what you're going to see in the background of the school and then they said well, and if you do the at grade proposal, you won't have this, and that was pretty much it and they didn't say anything about the additional noise. The taking of possible property is the construction disturbances that would go on for the neighborhood or anything like that. It was all just this one visual thing we're here you how this aerial thing, which doesn't look all that great, but that's something that can be designed better I, think, but you know they're.

N

So you have to get some of the partner agencies to give a more balanced approach to how they come out to the neighborhoods and present things, because if you don't have any level of sophistication on how to build railroads- and you see just two pictures and one is of an aerial configuration behind a school and the other one doesn't have it. What are you gonna pick?

N

You know it's, it's not really a fair comparison, and just want to put you on note that we're watching you guys, then you got to do a better job on your presentations. Thank.

C

You for the feedback, Kevin I, think.

A

Yes, so I was there, it was a California high-speed, Rail, Authority presentation, they're meeting with a lot of community groups as part of their environmental justice analysis for the environmental I'm, so Kelly. If you want to jump in on any of this too, but so we hear you I mean we I was part of a prep meeting to talk about that and we just knew there was so much information to present and we knew a lot of the people would be new to the project and we decided the primary purpose of that.

A

It was set up to be a high speed rail project. So I was there to provide a brief introduction and I was trying to work with the principal to figure out a time to come, where we could really dive into the things coming out of the disk, the concept plan process. So, if that's still in the works- and so we should definitely figure out a time to make the space to go into the nuances, but they had a lot to cover and we're focusing on what they needed for their project.

A

Environmental review- and you know we always are trying to balance, giving the full picture of the complexity and all the different processes involved, and so a shout out on the concept plan, probably felt inadequate and so I I hear you.

C

Thank you Edward and then Dan Edwards.

B

I'm chef, the hinge at Park Neighborhood Association, now partially. One of my comments is putting on my other hat as the chair of the city's Historic Landmarks Commission. We know with both the disk and the Google project. It's too huge scope projects that have different timelines and nowhere do those kind of overlap and conflict more readily than a tear down station itself. All of the Google renderings showed aired on intact. The concept layout and everything on disk shows the deep hole gone by definition. The slide 66, the. What of the lid that she showed?

B

The edge of the station is the edge of the Google property unless the Depot gets moved on to Google property somewhere, the National Register historic station is gone and that it's been repeated before and it's on the materials that Laurie is presented previously, but by definition, that is both a city and National Register element that needs to be addressed and related to that two other places that it overlaps, as seen on 66 the place on that graphic where the buses are shown is actually a small street between some of the proposed housing and an office building on the Google property.

B

So essentially, the bus stop would be a road between two google google buildings and the BART station, which some of the public comment made as well would be beneath one of the Google properties right now, so how those all coordinate and function properly so that we aren't creating new last-mile problems and new problems that take out some of this city's historic resources are something that I didn't think. We need to continue to pay attention to.

J

C

You Andrew thanks for that comment. Dan.

J

Dan Mount Seir, Alameda, Business, Association I think we do really like the elevated platform. I think it should allow some greater connectivity through.

B

The station than there would otherwise be.

J

Maybe I missed it, I hear what actually is the timing of the station being done and I know it involves things like lowering San, Carlos and raising Park and all those what's do we have any sort of a guess of a budget and timing.

P

So I have I think we all acknowledge it's a multi-year, probably multi decade, project if I was pressed I would guess in the 2030 to 2040 timeline would be when we could expect stuff to happen. We are in the planning phase, we're on step, 2 or 3 of a lot of steps, so the partners are I.

P

Think what I mentioned about the governance and financing work leading to a roadmap for delivery is a key element this year, because there are a series of things that have to happen to make the station work notwithstanding: integration with other development plans, but also major railroad infrastructure construction. So that is something we really want to tackle this year and part of doing that and understanding how we would build it into what sequence we need to know who and how we're gonna pay for it.

P

So we're gonna do a lot of work on that in the coming ice a year, but I think. As we know, these projects are big and it'll. Take us a while to kind of get our arms around that it's also a multi-billion dollar program. We have some cost estimates in the in the hi billion. You know billions range. We need to put our pen to paper and refine those and come up with some numbers that we feel confident on the conceptual engineering behind.

P

It is still conceptual so again we'll be doing a lot more work on the program development work over the course of the next year or so so, we'll we'll keep you informed as that to take shape.

A

And so your question Kevin reminded me that we did make a flier for the study session because we do want to make sure to help you all and help us get. The word out and it'll be important time to go through all this, so we have a few more copies pick them up. We'll also send a link, or at least put it on the website.

A

Thank You Jeffrey.

F

I feel, like you may have already answered this, but a few months back when, when VTA was submitting, it's a kind of wish list to the faster coalition and thinking about what the agency would like to see funded for that potential transportation. Mega measure obviously was very back of the net.

F

It seemed to be a very back of the napkin approach, but it had a line item for five billion dollars for and they lumped together a future airport connector the the Deardon multimodal project and I think the the West San Carlos Stevens Creek possible connector like what any obvious you guys are still crunching all the numbers, but anything in terms of like the unfunded portion of what initially you're, looking at with the disc so far of what what kind of additional public resources need to be raised in addition to like rm3 and all the other kind of lots of money coming together so far, anything of like terms of scope to help us understand what that looks like yeah,.

P

That's a great sure, that's a really great question and so I think to start the BART program, as you all know, isn't, is almost over the finish line in terms of its funding plan. We're headed for a federal funding grant in the near term, and so I would say the BART facility, the head house, that sort of investment is almost there and we get our federal partners to close the deal so to speak in terms of kind of Caltrain electrification as a funded under construction project.

P

California high-speed rail is moving forward in their project development process, so funding is being actively discussed in the high speed rail investments. I think everything else regarding dear Don, in terms of relocation of seemed off, raising the station doing all these improvements that is not funded in any way, not for environmental clearance, not for construction. So we do have a bit of fundraising to be done.

P

I think the question the partners are really interested in exploring is what sources of funding are out there that are both transportation, maybe other, because we have some city building components to that. We don't know what that might look like and then is there any opportunity for any kind of public-private investment or anything, that's kind of innovative, fine funding or financing, or maybe other really interesting transportation and trans City building type mechanisms we have work to do to that. So I would say really quite a bit of.

P

It is unfunded at the moment, and we have we've got to figure out how we're going to have a lot of bake sales and car washes in the next ten years. Okay,.

Q

P

Yeah, the point is we, we do have a way to go and thank you for pointing out about faster. There there's been definitely some attention at the regional level, which is great on the Deardon program, is a priority, and so we're seeing that MTC and folks are are definitely tracking this and are involved and I think, even on the state level, a lot of visibility on a project that I think the state content considers a statewide significant program and the state rail plan, which is helpful.

P

It's on the it's on the radar for the right people right.

C

Great, thank you. I, don't see any other name plates out here. You haven't had a chance to speak tonight, so I want to give you the opportunity, Johnathan Reverend ray Jason. Any other comments you'd like to share before we move to the public comment: section: no! Okay! Thank you very much Liz. So with that we're now gonna transition to public comment and just a reminder if you haven't had a chance to yet to please hand off a a comment card- and this definitely is not your only opportunity.

C

There's you can go to the website and give us comments, do that through the email through platforms there as well, but with that we're gonna get going with Paul Soto, followed by Catherine hedges, and we do have a traditional time clock two minutes up front. So you could please try to adhere to that. That would be great.

R

I was born at Valley, Medical Center I grew up in the horseshoe, which is the area that you're talking about right here and Harvey's point and mr. Kevin's point. The the houses to the north of those tracks have been given historical landmark status. All the ones that are in the horseshoe not Mexicans, are on the horseshoe side. Whites are on the other side. This is from Aldous Huxley's brave new world many historians.

R

Many sociologists and psychologists have written at length and with deep concern about the price that Western man has had to pay and will go on paying for technological progress. They point out, for example, that democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized, but the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just a concentration and centralization of power. This was written in 1931 and he's talking about this. He knew what he knew that a Google meeting like this was going to happen.

R

You know so I mean to talk about it like as if this is like. Like some new, you know thing. That's going on that people couldn't predict. That's that's out. That's false! It's it's! It's just not true! I grew up in that neighborhood man in the red language that was mentioned here.

R

That was that was there was the discrimination that's went on here, the segregation and the marginalization of Mexicans and the exploitation of child labor that built the entire infrastructure of this city that made it attractive to Google in the first place that hasn't been tabled, so I mean in and I would suggest anybody to read the devil in Silicon Valley. It was written by Steven PT, and he gave a study session about a month ago and on February 13th Dean's couldn't speak again at City Hall. Regarding these redlining issues. Thank you.

C

Thank you both next.

J

We have Catherine.

C

Hedges, followed by Blair Beekman Catherine is God. Okay, so Blair Europe, followed by Laura Diaz.

K

Real line that serves only high speed, bail and that hugs, the freeway systems through San Jose, can environmentally in a safely be satisfying and work very well. Please continue to be aware and consider Merced Tracy line or a second express line from LA to Tracy, with a BART line from Tracy to the Bay Area and the use of ACE rail be sure to talk about with Bart officials, as these ideas can offer interesting public transit options and not take away as many homes along the SF, Peninsula, I hope in 2020, in Santa, Clara County.

K

After years of studying good ideals and sustainable practices, I feel we are at our time to help begin important new standards, and what can one can expect from the near future in working and planning with the city of San Jose in Santa, Clara County, to be able to speak of human rights and civil protections and daily practices should be open, friendly and not considered hostile or to elite. To talk about in 2020, housing can begin to try to consider very low-income, extremely low-income and mixed income as more open, regular thought, dialogue and goals.

K

Worker rights, women's rights, local community, energy, health care for all and ideas, a better openness, accountability and good public policies with technology surveillance is slowly moving forward. These are ideas that have been very much developed over years of how to now address Shock, Doctrine disaster capitalism, practices and their ideas of continual war from these sorts of practices.

K

I hope there can be a very positive Eri er-er report process where they just are, and that will work to address the future of fossil fuel transportation and the dreaded questions of eminent in open, decent and humanistic terms with five seconds. Please consider how to better talk about environmental issues in San Jose in the future. We can do a much better job with that. Thank you. Thank.

C

You player next, we have Laura Diaz, followed by Larry Ames.

O

My name is Laura Dias and I've lived in San Jose for 47 years and I'm a live resident of downtown San Jose for those of you not from San Jose may be easy to dismiss the history, resiliency culture, beauty and community that makes San Jose what it is today for those of you coming to San Jose.

O

Looking at our city, like some unclaimed, newly discovered land to be stolen and taken over again, those of you that quote want to make it better, which sounds very similar to let's make it better again rings of privilege, arrogance and violence. You are not here to make it better. You are here to break it last night in this room during a Commission meeting on historic preservation, a couple of Google staff talked at us about building quote character zones in their proposed plan and added. We want it to be the heart of San Jose.

O

Well, San Jose already has character. San Jose already has a heart and it doesn't dwell in soul. This generic fabricated buildings that Google wants to force upon us. The heart of the city, are the hard-working people that have been here.

O

For generations, a lot of them that are not here today, because they're working you never talked to the people of San Jose, the heart of San Jose, is the hint thing like colonizers long ago, you set sail toward San Jose your eye on the prize, and you found the shores of City Hall, the type of leadership that you needed, the corrupt city leadership willing to sell out their people in their city, the culture in history.

O

You were offered the keys to the city without even a peep, hidden behind non-disclosure agreements, fake promises of community benefits and the promise of a shiny, new buildings and housing for your benefit. You set up fake community engagement feedback sessions and took note of only what you wanted to hear. Dismissing the voices of people of color women, the elderly or LGBTQ community, our youth around our house, brothers and sisters and I said listen to the greedy developers, who are the heart of gentrification.

O

You claim to countless meetings to be transparent and have open dialog, but talking at people is not this. Instead, when community members did not stand up to your deception, you attack by ignoring our message that we don't want you here. The people of San Jose are saying San Jose, no seven, they say I myself and they and when we try to protect our city, we are criminalized. Arrested at public city hall meetings threatened, kicked out of public community meetings.

O

There has been an intentional and blatant disregard for the people in this community that are struggling every day. We don't want your lies that your fake promises, like the ones you made long ago to the hard-working people of Mountain View and countless other communities that you took over at last night's meeting. You said you want to bring culture to San Jose, you don't know what culture is. Culture, isn't a pure mural. You pay google tube to paint in downtown to brighten it up. It's the murals that are disappearing every single day in the city.

O

Somebody at the meeting last night said well. Maybe we should put a plaque or a statue in the proposed development, so people can remember the history of San Jose. There is already this assumption that there is a need for a reminder of us. We are still here, but even this Commissioner saw that, with this project, the people of San Jose, the storytellers, the artists, the builders, the workers, our youth and our elders are already expected to be gone and replaced with a nice plaque. A plaque can't tell you the story of the city.

O

What you want to do is simple claim the land erase those that have toiled it and bury us under those plaques, the money that will be spent funding, new initiatives that you're giving to these nonprofits. It's gonna run out, and you will have to look at yourself and see what side of history you were on. Google is not San Jose Savior, our communities.

C

Thank you, Laura. We have Larry Ames, followed by Bill Rankin.

E

So yes, I, come to echo what Harvey said and also Kevin and Ed and I feel like I've, been saying the same thing for all these different meetings. But it's I, guess it's a new audience.

E

Please use the trailer line, the rail alignment that goes.

A

E

The 87 to 89 Minh to stay out of the neighborhood there and stay within the freeway right-of-way I mean they're planning on topping 400 and some trains a day through this area. Here I mean people bought their houses, knowing that there is a track next to it, but those houses I mean those when they bought their houses. They had a few trains a day now, you're planning with the electrification and high-speed rail and everything is 400 trains a day.

E

I hope you can do the alignment I hope you can have freight trains go on the same alignment through the freeway interchange. That would solve the problems of the flyover in the crossing of the tracks and so forth. If you can get all those tracks on that thing, the bridges have to be designed to be a little more sturdy to carry the weight, and there are some issues about the grade that the thing you'd go on, so maybe I'm not sure how important it is.

E

How complicated is to do it, whether it is just you have to redraw, drawing and raise a station by a foot or two or if it's really serious, I'd like to seed the plans? I understand it's gone before p44 City Council in a couple days, I really want to see if you can get the high the freight trains through the freeway.

E

That would really help the area a lot that were also free up the old current linemen, so they could make a Highline trail out of it would be quite an appointment traction for the city there, let's see 0.5 make sure you have the connection shown to this Airport I mean on your maps. You show the existing lines, but it does not show the connection to the airport. I found out the hard way. If the line is not shown on a map, it doesn't get built.

E

So all the nice words are very nice, but you neither thing there I owe those statements about the historic preservations and preserve and reuse the buildings, and please, yes, keep the dirt on station. It's a historic building, the parks and trails connections. This is how people will be able to get to the station. You don't want people driving to the station all the time you want to be able to take the trails there. Harvey was talking because trying to say Popo.

A

E

You know po PO's, that's a privately owned public open spaces, and yes, it's good that Google is planning on some of these things. I, like Google I, also like nut scape Yahoo, now AOL, but they're not around any longer and I worked at the largest company in the city in the county at the time, but it's almost all gone too so that you need to have the plans whatever it's arrangements are made for the popos that that be independent of who owns land I mean Lockheed owned.

E

Half the city at one time announced a few buildings, so you make sure that the plans are no matter who owns land. It stays there. So parks say there. Thank you. Thank You.

C

Larry we have bill Rankin, followed by Patricia Palomar, as Mason.

K

Thank you, I'm bill, Rankin I live in North Willow Glen. I too, wanted to echo what Harvey and Kevin said so well. The impacts of an increase in train lines through the Greater Gardner neighborhoods will have big effects on neighborhoods that have been so severely impacted by transportation advances over the years. Adding a third line through the neighborhoods will have devastating effects on the park and to the houses on Jerome. Adding even more lines would cause even bigger problems. I understand the great separation has been thought through for other I. This is a good thing.

K

This will keep trains from stopping vehicle traffic and the train horns will stop there, but I understand grade separations at West. Virginia have not been figured out yet that would need to happen or the train horns will drive people crazy and buy your own estimates. Train traffic will increase from the 50 to 60 trains a day now to over 400 a day that is especially unfair to historic neighborhoods that have already been so impacted.

K

C

Thank you Bill. We have Patricia, followed by Jeanne Dresden.

Q

First of all, I want to acknowledge each person that is sitting up here at sag and the reason why I want to acknowledge you, because your are the voice of San Jose you're, the voice of those homeless, you're the voice of many levels of lives. People are seniors, our elders, our children, our children. There are the future you're, making a big impact on the future.

Q

Whether our children are not here, whether our elders are not here and that impact that you're gonna do say, ask question or why is it happening this way or how much is it costing, but the most important part that you're forgetting to take care of our people, Sango, saying you're, forgetting that that people didn't walk, they don't drive. Those elders that are in a wheelchair, our children that don't have school are not getting fed, so you've been here, meanie those people don't know who are the voice for them. So you gotta touch your heart.

Q

You gotta hear more to your communities. You gotta, listen and make sure what the question is. Our ask are getting answered, but not just for right now to be in that meeting, because you're not gonna, be here. 40 years, I have a grandson he's a fifth generation living at Gardner.

Q

He's been here at these meetings he's a first grader and he asks me. Why do we come to these meetings? Because you are my future and I have to make sure I try my best better those people trying their best mama I, don't know how can I ask him I'm, not the only one here, I'm, not gonna, be when I corner school and exactly when they came to that meeting.

Q

30 minutes a presentation. Parents could ask questions. It wasn't enough time, because it was a coffee time with the principal I made sure I walk with those people around our neighborhood I made sure they were aware where their impact was gonna, be on our kids on our seniors. Gardner just lost a senior 105 Gardner has been a seat for different things.

Q

Gardner in the early 60s was the first Gardner advisory. We were the first ones to make sure we were impacting our communities by having a swimming pool for our kids, because a lot of our parents couldn't take their kids swimming because they were working in the canneries. We wanted to make sure there was something for us and that swimming pool is there now so Garner has a lot of history exactly like our people and I just think honor. All those angles is gonna, be impacted, so I ask all of you touch your heart, think.

Q

Do you go ahead and I think he did I asked the right question. Am I communicating to my community am I asking and by doing a survey, and what am I doing if I'm sitting at this table do I just come here and pretend no go out there I work, I have a husband has cancer and he was only trying to live three months and I'm here.

Q

I have a grandson that I have to make sure I take care too, and I'm here and I still communicate and I still went in what my neighborhood and nobody's paying me I'm living in Gardner, but I. Don't just live in in Gardner, I live the east side, the west side, the South, the north, because I go to every direction. Every community is important in San Jose, but you are forgetting to care about the people, a San Jose, no matter what the race, no matter, what the age, no matter what the income is.

Q

There is a need that was homeless out there, her dying yesterday, there was a fire by 85 because they were trying to keep warm, see. There's things that you don't see early in the morning so go out of your communities find out your people. Ask questions. Ask them to say what can I do better yeah, you don't get paid, but you're here representing them. Don't forget that.

C

Thank You Patricia I believe our last speaker is Jean Dresden.

H

Good evening my name is Jean Dresden and since so many people shared their background, I'll share mine, I was born here, and my folks were here before that and my grandfather, though they kind of moved in and out of town, so I'm wondering as we talked about various things. If anyone has actually talked to the folks who owned the properties on Jerome I have not everybody but I go over and visit, and we talk and one of the first reactions is.

H

Is they still talking about doing something there because they think high-speed rail is gone and they haven't heard about it and so and they don't think that they're at risk, or at least couple of folks I talked to, and so when we talked about the sout possible sound wall, they wondered about well how's that gonna fit in there. Without you coming into my property, you're gonna just bring construction equipment in there and I'm wondering high-speed rails attitude is if they have to construct on property, they take the parcel and then they subsequently salt lit. Well.

H

If this is a Caltrain project, then is there just access to the parcel or are you taking it and then reselling it and that's a very different kind of impact and I? Don't know they don't know either. Do you know how do you build a sound wall without getting access to those properties? Many people complain. You know they bought. People bought property next to the Train.

H

They should have known well back in the 1940s at the peak of trains, there were only 90 trains a day: passenger milk train postage, tray and trains Freight and you're going to go four times as much more than four times as much.

H

How could they have ever guessed that, even if they were wise enough to know what it was like at the peak in the 1940s, then I'm thinking about fuller, Park and I made a comment to do tea management that it's a sin, the simulation picture that was shown that minimized the impact of fuller Park and the new artwork needs to be done.

H

That shows that more accurately and compensation needs to come forward about the loss of active recreation and then, finally, a little bit about Google when we go through it'll, be very interesting to see the exact computations about parks, park, lands, community benefits and again popo's as a community benefit, considering they're only temporary for as long as those buildings or that corporation stands and agrees to provide public access. These are real considerations. It's a complex situation, but, let's not just get lost in the green space. Saying, oh pretty.

H

It's only really pretty if we really have access permanently. Thank you. Thank.

C

You Jeanne, we do have one last speaker: Brian, hey soos, Peraza,.

B

I came to San Jose Steve from Orange County. Initially, I was intending to just stay here for my two years: transfer student and then headed back. However, when I stayed here, I got involved with a lot of the communities here. A lot of the groups here in the community and I was really inspired and touched by the folks here and about how much they care about their community a lot of them.

B

They a lot of time to spreading the message about, what's going on with Google, about how it's going to negative negatively impact the community and San Jose as a whole and I'm just here to hopefully bring some light to some other concerns because a lot of people, they think the same things and they I'm sure they wish they could be up here, but a lot of them. They're working they're, taking care of their their kids, their families and whatnot and I.

B

Just hope that you all find it in your heart to really show some compassion and take into consideration that a lot of people are concerned about their future. Here in San Jose. They won't be able to afford to live here anymore. Their kids won't be able to grow up here. It's just you you're, not just talking about a company anymore, you're talking about people's lives and people wanted to spend their life here, people they have roots here, they've been here for generations, and they had intentions to keep doing that.

B

But now Google's going to disrupt that and it's gonna force them to go elsewhere. They're gonna have to start all over again and I. Just think. That's really unfair, and hopefully some of you can speak out against it and not let that happen because I myself, I'm leaving soon I'm gonna go back to my family because I have roots somewhere else where hopefully, I could grow up and raise a family and I just was I wish.

B

My friends and the people in this community had that opportunity too, because it's not cool that some company, like Google, could just come in and rip that away from people. Thank you.

C

Thank you, Brian I'm, so, just again as a reminder, if you didn't want to speak here tonight, but have comments, there's a comment box in the back. You could definitely provide comments through the website and we'll make sure that that voice is also heard, and the summary that's put together for this meeting and I'm gonna turn it now over to Laura to talk to next steps.

A

Yeah, just to emphasize to the summaries from the last meeting and from the small group discussions were provided in your packet tonight, so we put draft on that because if you have any comments questions we will tweak it. We want to make sure that's reflecting the conversations were having. Hopefully you enjoyed eat a PITA tonight. That was mixing it up a little bit and if you have any other requests or suggestions for local businesses that provide recently priced and delicious Catering's son of my way make sure to validate your parking.

A

We have a new system downstairs. Sometimes they leave the gates open after 8:30, but that's not happening anymore and learn the hard way, and so, if most of you do this are already. But if your representative change overtime just make sure to send the contact info, email phone will be sending around updated contact list to just verify that we are getting the emails to the right people.

A

It can be anyone in your organization that needs to just get these updates so yeah, and this is just a reminder of what our intent is for the next meeting on March 18th and also it's not reflected here, but we mentioned that we'll come back with more information on the development capacity for the Jared on station area plan and where that's headed, okay, I think, that's it so all adjourn 8:30. Thank you.