City Council - Regular Meeting

like to call to order the regular meeting of the Campbell City Council for Tuesday, April 7th, 2026. And we'll start with roll call, please. Council member Lopez, here. Council member Hines, present. Council member Scazola, absent. Vice Mayor Bbeby, present. Mayor Fado here.

Just before we have the pledge of allegiance tonight, I would like to read the following statement. In recent weeks, a few of our neighboring cities have been subjected to u disruptive racist verbal attacks by anonymous callers during virtual public comments. Again, these are people who call in uh to the meeting. The city of Campbell is fully committed to racial, religious, and cultural equity and justice as we strive to create a welcoming, safe, and inclusive community for all. The council welcomes respectful, non-threatening public comments on matters within our jurisdiction. Comments deemed otherwise pursuant to the council's statement of values and the government code may be grounds for terminating a speaker's comment period. With that, um I would like to um ask Jennifer Keaton in recognition of National Public Safety Telecommunications Week um to and she is our supervisor in that department for the police department uh in charge of uh all dispatchers uh to please lead us in the pledge of allegiance and then I'll have a comment to make if you'll stay there. Thank you. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

I'll come down there in a moment if you'll just As we observe uh National Public Safety Telecommunications Week, we are honored, as I mentioned, to have the Campbell Police Department dispatchers join us this evening. These, as individuals, as you may know, are very dedicated professionals who work in the background. They're very well trained. They're responsible for answering all of the 911 calls. And of course uh before the call comes in they have no idea who or what uh the nature of the emergency is. They have to quickly evaluate exactly what the emergency is. If necessary provide immediate information in terms of first aid and so on to the caller and reassurance as well as immediately dispatching police and uh fire personnel as appropriate um to the emergency. uh providing um our emergency service personnel with brief uh comments as to the nature of the emergency so they are somewhat prepared uh on their way to the emergency. So um it's a pleasure for us to u on behalf of the council to proclaim the week of April 12th through 18th as um National Public Safety Telecommunications Week in the city of Campbell and um present Jennifer with a proclamation. Thank you.

Thank you. on behalf of your colle Jennifer, I just before you leave, I neglected to invite you to say some comments yourself if you wish. I knew she was trying to get away quickly, so please. Thank you. I just want to thank the council for all their support of the department over the years. Um, we absolutely love this Campbell community and I think we have such a great team and we love offering the highest level customer service in the county. Um, we see it year after year. Um, so thank you for your continued support and for all the community. Everything you've done for us, see it in your support of our beautiful new building. Dispatch is getting out of the bunker. So we're so excited. Thank you all so much. Appreciate it. Thank you again, Jennifer. My colleagues have some comments to make.

If I may just uh you're the first line of contact, so uh just a tremendous work that uh you and the whole team do. So really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you as well. I've it has been uh too frequent, but I've had to call in a few times and the response has always been incredibly professional. And um I think that's exactly the same values whether uh it's council or member of the public doesn't matter you know you get the same level of customer service as a member

and Jennifer and all your colleagues I I know that you have a difficult and stressful job and you all do without skipping a beat always getting people to the resources to the appropriate place at the at the right moment. So, I want to thank you for that. And I I just always want to say that too that you're always professional, always empathetic. Um have a have a kind ear when people are in stress and that's so important when people are in distress. And I also want to go beyond and thank you all for your um involvement in the community. I know you're always out there at the Boogie the Music Festival and and the creepy collar and making a presence and and interacting with our community. And that's so important, too. So, thank you very much. Thank you all. Those are such kind words. I appreciate it.

Thank you again.

I'd also like to take the opportunity to um offer a proclamation declaring April 15th as National Laundry Day. You know, I think uh laundry is something that most of us uh look at as a chore that we have to do but don't necessarily want to do. Uh but you know there are many people uh in our country in the world who um who don't have access to clean clothing who are homeless um and uh are not able to care for themselves in this very basic way and um having access to clean clothing, linens um and so on plays an important public health role adds to individuals personal dignity and their overall quality of life. And it's fortunate there are a number of volunteers available who are willing to help others and provide a simple service of clean clothing which uh respects their dignity as human beings. And so we are proclaiming April 15th as National Laundry Day and um the individual who um is going to speak on this matter if she's available is Susan Rees. Is she present? She she is present. Susan um good evening. Um, and please uh go ahead and um offer some remarks if you'd like.

Hello. Can you hear? Yes.

Susan, are you Campbell City Council. I am honored to share a brief overview of the Little Free Laundry Service and to recognize the importance of National Laundry Day on April 15th. The Little Free Laundry Service is the communitydriven initiative dedicated to addressing laundry insecurity by providing free access to laundry services for individuals and families in need. Through simple acts of kindness, we aim to restore dignity, promote health, and uplift members of the community who may be struggling. National Laundry Day, observed on April 15th, brings awareness to the critical need for clean clothing and the barriers many face in accessing basic laundry needs. It is a day to come together, inspire compassion, and take meaningful action to support one another. I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to the Campbell City Council for your support, leadership, and commitment to community well-being. Your recognition and encouragement help amplify this mission and make a lasting difference in the lives of those we serve. Thank you for standing with us to promote dignity, compassion, and community care. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Jennifer. We'll be mailing you the resolution uh and proclamation from the mayor's office. Thank you. We have uh no communications or petitions and um we now go to oral requests. Um, from the speaker cards that I have here, I first of all want to indicate that I believe many of you are here to speak about the housing issues and I just wanted to mention that we have received your uh letters and emails uh communication to the council. We respect your opinion and we invite you to speak tonight as well. Um, I also just want to let you know in terms of progress, we have been working, uh, with our city staff, city manager, and our director of planning, um, as well as our city attorney, um, to take a a good hard look at this whole matter. Uh, we're probably one of the first cities that has addressed this matter as compared to other cities, um, where this law is just being evaluated right now. We do plan to um take into consideration not only your comments, but I just wanted you to know that and we will agendaize this at a future meeting and more than likely right now we're planning for the second meeting in May to have this uh item agendaized official officially so that uh we can discuss it more fully. Um, tonight of course we can take um public comment and I just wanted to make those few introductory comments just to assure you that while we can't really discuss your comments tonight, I want you to know that we appreciate and respect your comments and that we are sincere about looking into this matter and what could or should be done about the interim ordinance and it is just an interim ordinance that we passed. So with that introduction um we'll start with public comments and I'll invite the speakers to

um come up and and you have up to two minutes. Um if someone has already made remarks very similar to what you wanted to say you may simply you know indicate that um without necessarily uh it's up to you repeating what has been said before but that is I'll leave that judgment up to you. So, first um and they'll please excuse me if I mispronounce anyone's name. Um Karen uh Holmes.

Thank you. Thank you.

Hi. Um, we've lived on the corner of KG Avenue, uh, Steinway for about 26 years now. Um, have enjoyed the peace and the quiet and the mixed neighborhood and it's just a really beautiful place to live. Um, I saw just last night that this was happening, this townhouse project, and there was a picture of proposal and the proposed units. Um, the things that struck me were it's really, really ugly. It looks like a government housing project in the middle of places where people have spent everything they have on very fancy houses. I would like to enjoy them. It the height request um a 28 foot peak roof on a single family home is one thing. 35 ft of a solid wall of buildings taking up most of the lot and the whole width of it. It's much bigger than anything in that neighborhood. If you walk that neighborhood, blocks in every direction. There is nothing like this and I'm really not have a problem with starter rooms but it should fit in. It should be attractive. It it shouldn't look like a government housing project. Um and what I'm saying is there are a lot of people benefit from this. The state, the county, the city, the developer, the people that move in. There are a few homeowners right there at ground zero and their big investment is being threatened and it's hard and there should be some like just advanced notice here some consideration for the people that this is a very big change and I really think that they could do better they could do something more attractive that fit the neighborhood much better. Thank you.

Thank you. Since we have a lot of speakers, I I do request that you not show applause uh after each speaker. And I'd like to call uh Rajes uh Durajian. Good evening, mayor and members of the council. My name is Rajes Rajan and I'm a resident of Campbell. I moved here in 2022 with my wife and daughter after 15 years in Saratoga. We chose Campbell for what makes it special. Walkable neighborhood, a close-knit community, and a city that prides itself in its heritage. I'm not here against housing. Just want to make that very clear. I'm here to ask that it be done thoughtfully with neighbors in the conversation. Under SB1123 and Campbell City Ordinance 2334 adopted on July 2025, developers can apply to demolish a single family home and replace it with up to nine units. The city must approve within 60 days. No public hearing, no notifications and uh to adjacent neighbors, no right of appeal. I'm sure some of you have already heard from city residents on this issue. A number of Campbell residents, myself included, have built a website called Campbell Civicwise.org to make Campbell residents aware of the proposed developments. Submitted plans show up to uh 35 ft tall buildings, three stories directly overlooking neighbors yards and windows. Eight of these 15 projects are in single family residential zones R1 zones. I found out this through neighbors and not through the city. My three asks today are one pass new approvals under ordinance 2334 for genuine community input. Two, apply for apply SB1123 vacancy standard as written not satisfied uh you know as written but not satisfied by a future promise of demolition to an existing home. Three, notify adjacent neighbors when application is filed. I know the city may the state law may not require it, but it's the right thing to do. Thank

you for your time and your service to the community. Thank you. Thank you. I'd like to now invite uh Roy D. Vtorio to speak.

Thank you, Council Member Mayor taking the time here again. Obviously, I'm talking about the same projects and stuff. Um, I wanted to kind of know how many homes is the state forcing Campbell to build and in what time frame? Probably Bob might know more, you know, because it seems like we're rushing everything under the table. I know obviously most people here have just heard about this project and we just don't feel like hey Campbell are you looking out for your citizens or your residents or are you just getting the money coming in from these developers these developers are coming in and buying these lots and you know going through I know Campbell gets some money from the state or whatever but it just seems like you're completely ignoring the residents and I think what bothers me is, you know, how I know the state doesn't rec, you know, require it the the public hearings like this or the neighbors to be notified, but how as council members of the city that we've elected you and you live and try to keep it a city, let it go and not say, "Okay, we have x amount of houses we're supposed to build. We have x amount of time we're supposed to build them in. Let's sit down and make a plan. Where's the city plan? And I can't believe the city plan is popping eight nine homes here, then pick another spot here, popping nine homes, nine homes, because to me, that's just not a plan. And you're like on Walnut, they're planning on doing 18 homes. Probably average 36 cars. Where are they going to park? You we got the schools right down the street. you know, we got kids walking their a lot of people walking their dogs and you're going to have all these cars. I just felt like there's no consideration and uh I just happen to see your sign city

of Campbell, the orchard city, and I'm like, we're getting real close to being San Francisco. So, just those are my thoughts. Although we don't although we aren't able to really discuss this tonight, I did make a brief comment on this whole matter. First of all, in the state of California, it's the department of housing that assigns to the regional planning agencies and in this case to the association of Bay Area governments a required number of houses that we in all the cities are required to zone for. Now, we don't own the property, so we cannot direct that pro, you know, that housing be built. uh that is a pure negotiation between a developer and the property owner. If the two of them want to come together and decide that one wants to sell, own wants to buy. Um if they agree on a price, then of course it's up to the developer um to secure their construction loans and and comply with all the city codes and requirements. But we are required to zone for a certain number. Um most cities are not able to achieve that number because it's a very high number for every city. And like I said, we don't own the property, so we don't force sales. The other thing is um I I'll say I'll state briefly the state of California in recent years has passed many laws quite frankly oftentimes overlapping and confusing that has taken away local jurisdiction in a number of matters and prevented us from um you know designating a certain area or a certain number of homes uh in a for a given size piece of property. So that that decision in many areas has been preempted from us and so we're required under ministerial rules and I don't want to get into too much detail to to allow

these things to happen. Not that we want to or we're planning and we don't you know we're not looking to make extra money by that route. Um but anyway those are my brief comments. Like I said, it's it's not subject to discussion tonight, but I felt as a matter of information, I could at least make this comment to you. So, right, I think maybe there could have been more effort into zoning it certain things. He said, you know,

yeah, it is a part of the general plan. So, housing the planning department does work with the city's general plan um and like I said to designate um the housing areas um but it is a requirement that we do so in order to have our housing element certified by the state of California which is another requirement. So, we have many unfortunate state requirements that we don't like either. Thank you.

I'd like to call Vong Park. Good evening, uh, mayor and members of the city council. My name is Jung Park. Um, since my neighbors, uh, have already kind of explained the flaws with the ordinance 2334, um, I I don't want to repeat their points. Um, but I do want to address uh like why uh Campbell is the only city um doing this uh in the Bay Area. Um we know this unique interpretation was created because um the city feared uh developers would prematurely you know bulldoze homes and leave lightly dirt lots behind. But um in your attempt to prevent empty lots um I think uh you have accidentally stripped you know the established neighborhoods uh of their um protections entirely. Um my wife and I are raising our seven-year-old son here because we believe in this community. um we cannot afford to be blindsided by uh this type of um decision and uh discussing this issue um on May 5th. Uh was that the right date? Um I I I I feel like that's uh a little bit too late. Um my request is to um put a pause on some of the projects that that are in progress on review. um so that you know the city has time to actually kind of look back into the the ordinance issue and you know some of the complaints that were um all uh talking about. Um so yeah um that

would be yeah my my statement. Yeah. Thank you.

I would like to call Rodney Aaniano. Hi, thank you for your time tonight. Um, yes, I'm here to uh comment on the residential project permits on Walnut Drive, 1573, that property and the 661 Car Avenue. It does regard the 18 homes that are replacing the two homes. And so this is such a rapid growth for our residential street. Um with 19 houses on the block, this project doubles the number of families um on our street. And so this is doubling the traffic. Like as mentioned before, it's going to we're expecting 36 additional cars. Um the schools nearby are Village Elementary and Capri Elementary, and they're only a couple streets away in an already hightraic zone. the um 18 buildings that are going to be planned to be built are three stories high um overlooking my neighbors who have already spoke looking into their backyards and into their backyards and losing the privacy. Um these three-story buildings they don't reflect the character of the surrounding neighborhood and are not compatible with their surrounding homes. Um, these permits will allow the demolition of wellestablished trees that have been there since I was a child in 1976. I've lived in Campbell for over 50 years on Walnut Drive, and I've never seen such neighborhood growth as fast as this. Um, it feels disappointing inconsiderate of the neighbors and community and the environment. Makes me question the current values that we hold here in K. Uh, we were a slow grow city for decades. Uh, but now I see high density construction everywhere. the 590 Maxwell units on South Baskam, 90 home

development at 600 East Campbell, uh the 290 homes on Tech Parkway turning office buildings into into homes. As my teacher as teachers, my wife and I watched yearly trend of declining enrollment in schools, people have been leaving California and Santa Clara. 15 schools are slated for closure. Um so we're building homes for less families. And so I hope that we maintain um and return to values uh that we can maintain slow growth here in Canada. Thank you. Thank you.

I'd like to call Ellen uh Pronover Well, it's a pleasure to talk to the city council. We all appreciate all your work here in Campbell. And we all love this city. That's what we can, I think, all attest to. And I think we're all pretty much for starter homes, but starter homes that are well-designed and proportional to our neighborhoods. Something with a craftsman look or a cottage look. This does not look like a starter home. This is the renderings.

This is the renderings from the 1170 Steinway. This looks like apartment buildings. And at that apartment buildings may be poorly designed. They're basically like shoe boxes turned on in with no articulation, no changing roof lines. and to see it in proportion for massing. This is my singlestory home in Campbell and this is the 35 foot box. So, they're not even individual. They're mass. These town homes are in one big building. They're just poorly designed. Let's get them redesigned. Let's bring another architecture firm in who can design these correctly. Alpha X, who's the developer, is known for like maximizing square footage. They did a project uh uh on Merc 300 uh reading street in Campbell and the project was the first in California approved by SB684. It squeeze town homes into a space that bypass full local review. This um the project sets a president for maximizing units and not matching neighborhood scale. So basically, we just want well-designed starter homes and there have if you you have there has to be architectural review. I mean, do you guys like the way those buildings look, council members?

Do you care for them? I'm sorry. We're not going to discuss Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, my bad. Okay. Oh, no. I I I don't put you in a thing. Um, and it's also clear Yeah. that um Oh, my time's up. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. I'd like to call um Hing Zan.

Uh dear mayor and council members, it's nice to meet you. My name is Shane. Uh I here want to first start by saying that I support high density housing and understand there's constraints and superimposed on the city. I'm here to address and request the legal review of the eligibility of start projects for um 61 PAR and 5073 walnut. I appreciate the progress you announced earlier. Mayor, I would like to redirect your attention to the specifics of the terms. According to state bill 123, the vacant status of the lot is a contemporaneous requirement, which means the lot must be vacant, abandoned, or uninhabitable at the time of application. like to point out that there's a stark internal contradiction to the ordinance 2334. In section three, vacant means a lot lot is um without permanent structure unless the permanent structure is abandoned or uninhabitable. This is consistent with state 123. However, in section 4C on page four reads, a parcel shall be eligible for starter home project if it will be vacant um no later than the date of recordation. the final map where it shows the building permit whichever occurs first. So you can see that the deadline of vacancy has been shifted to the end of the project rather than the start. By doing so, this policy currently diverges from the state bill 123 and also allows the developers to target existing viable homes. Just to point out 61 Park Avenue today is um owner occupied. They're moving now but it's owner occupied. 5073 that house is wellmaintained home asset. Yes, the owner did disase and uh the family eventually sold the property to a developer, but changing the um ownership to a developer does not make the slot vacant. This is legal fiction. So, I implore the council to please review rectify the definition vacancy with a lawyer and please pause application approval to 61 PAR and 1573 Walnut

before the eligibility is legal review. Thank you. Thank you. I'm Campbell resident and while I support housing development, I also expect the city to follow state law and protect public safety. The city's implementation of ordinance 2334 creates a serious legal issue in how it defines the term vacant under state bill 1123. State law defines vacant as a site with no permanent structure unless that structure is abandoned and uninhabitable. Campbell's interpretation instead allows a property to qualify as vacant based on the assumption that structures will be demolished in the future. That's not just a minor distinction. It fundamentally changes eligibility. Ministerial approval under state bill 1123 is only available if a project qualifies at the time of application. It is not intended to apply to sites that may become eligible later through future demolition. By allowing this interpretation, the city risks approving projects that do not meet the statutory criteria for streamlining. And it also has real public safety consequences. State bill 1123 eliminates public hearings and notice. In practice, dem demolition is often the only visible signal to residents that a major development is coming. For example, the proposed 18 unit development at 661 PAR and 1573 Walnut would significantly increase density density near two elementary schools, including the one of the elementary schools that my daughters will be attending in a couple years. And not to mention, these two elementary schools are on streets without sidewalks, and that's what creates the public safety concern. There are unresolved safety concerns related to

traffic and pedestrian access. If projects can qualify as vacant before demolition occurs, residents are effectively denied of any meaningful opportunity to become aware of and raise these issues before approval. I urge the city to correct its definition of vacant to align with state law or to provide a clear legal legal basis for its current position. At a minimum, the city should pause approvals under this interpretation until that issue is resolved. Thank you. Thank you. like to call Bonnie Harper.

Hi there. My big thing is about transparency for all the people in Campbell. We are your neighbors. We are not anti-ousing. We are asking for basic transparency in the right to be heard. Under ordinance 2334, by the time a permit appears on the city's portal or a demolition crew arrives, the decision is already complete. No neighbor notice, no appeal, no public meeting. One developer can file multiple adjacent applications with no cumulative review. Buildings up to three stories and 35 feet tall can be approved without any design or neighborhood impact, as you saw on the plans there. Per the state law, we understand the city is not obligated to notify neighbors, but we are asking for the council to amend the ordinance to allow neighbor notification before approval and when you've finalized everything. We understand the state limits what you can do. We are not asking you to stop housing. We are asking you to use the the discretion that you do have to be transparent to listen to make decisions that reflect the whole community, not just the applicants like the builders and things like that. Decisions about our neighborhood should include our neighborhood. We're asking to be partners in shaping our own community.

Thank you.

I'd like to call um Rudy Riono. Yeah. Hi. Uh, I'm a 50-year Campbell resident. Um, I know I look a lot younger than that. Won't violate my two minutes. Um, but this SB1 1123 is it's throwing us all for a curveball. There's no doubt about it. I'm sure it's putting you guys under pressure to figure out these issues. Um, you guys are our last line of defense. We got to figure out, you know, how we deal with this transparently. We got to figure out where the the real gray zones are in this stuff because this is our first wave through this. Um so we've got to take this seriously and and put the right processes in place, put the right rigor and discipline and transparency in place about why decisions are being made because there's a lot of stuff out there that may be legally okay. But literally u you know everything lives in the gray zone. Uh I'm directly adjacent to the Steinway uh proposed thing, which is a total, you know, piece of you know, from my perspective, but it is what it is and we're going to live with it. Uh I'm a venture capitalist by professionally. Um I deal with change all the time. Um and so I I get it. We got to get some housing done and everything else, but it feels like this stuff is happening in in, you know, kind of backdoor deals. You know, nobody really knows what's going on. And uh you know it's it's literally up to you guys to help us figure out how we get through the this thing transparently and and and literally that the gray zones are well understood and that we figure this out together because uh it's a it's a tough one.

Thank you. I'd like to call Gordon Wong.

Hi. How you doing? I want to weigh in on this. Um, I live off of Sunny Oaks. I built my house. It's 4,000 square feet. I've been a local residence for 10 years now. I've also been a business owner and the owner of GKW Architects. I have trained more than 40 people in my office and I really do like the city. I think it's one of the best places to be. Um, however, what I see in my angle, which I want to advocate for the city and for everybody in the city of Campbell, is when I see these big boxes, these types of projects coming in, I can tell you when I see a good client, when I see a bad client, and I see a lot of clients that have a lot of greed, all of it's filled by greed. And I kick them out of my office and I'll see their plans show up here. And I know who they are. So I want to empower the city, empower everybody in this room, anybody in the city of Campbell to push against that kind of greed and bring in good projects. Robson, KTGY, those are good names. Those are good projects, good architects. They're good architects out there. Try to advocate with the city, work together to protect this place so we don't just have these projects that are just ballooning everywhere. I mean, I'll draw them. They'll steal my plans and take it somewhere else. Thank you very much. Hey, uh going to give you guys a little bit of a break because uh pretty much everyone here has said everything that I can think about the housing. Um the Campbell Community Center flagpole lights are so bright. Um, I go walking by that area about once a week and I cannot walk past the flag pole without having to shield my eyes. Um, and I have no idea where on the website to email you guys about that. It has just been

driving me crazy. And so, um, and also thank you for hearing all our comments. I know that really I think my personal beef is with the state of California at the moment, not you guys. Um, and I definitely support the idea of one day I would like to maybe have my own house here. That would be lovely. Um, but I would like it to look nice, you know. So, thank you very much. Thank you. We will refer that matter to the staff to review.

Travis Deli. Yes. Hi. Can you hear me? Yes, we can.

Great. Thanks. I'm Travis Gallery. I'm actually calling from a work trip in Chicago, but I'm a resident of Campbell. Also here to talk about the uh SB1123 housing issue. Uh many of the points have already been shared, so I just want to reinforce a few more. This law came out in July, and the city of Campbell had an emergency meeting that July. In that meeting, and you can look up the meeting minutes, the planning department acknowledged that vacancy is likely at the time of application. However, because of policy concerns about potential blight, they decided to have an ordinance that says that vacancy be determined later on after the application. Simply put, it's out of compliance with state law. And I get it, mayor. You said that with other laws like SB9, the state laws don't give the cities much liberty to do to do anything. But in this case, we're not even challenging the state. This is all on the city of Campbell who decided to have a more liberal liberal definition of vacancy. I've looked up other cities, including Los Angeles, and they state that it has to be at the time of application. So I ask everyone, why would the state law have vacancy as a clause if a developer could just demolish a house and call it vacant? It renders that clause worthless. So my ask here is this. Please pause all reviews until this ordinance is fixed. And don't wait until miday. You had an emergency meeting in July right after the law passed. We are asking you to have an emergency meeting now to address this issue. If you wait, then you're going to come back and tell everyone that sorry, these approvals have to go through because they're ministerial and too much time will pass. So listen to your citizens, prioritize this issue, and move it up to the next council meeting so that we can have a fix here before it's too late. Thank you.

Thank you. Um I have no other cards. Oh, I'm sorry. We still have someone online, please.

No, I'm sorry. Excuse me. I'll be happy to call on anyone who wants to speak, but right now I'm I'm addressing someone who's online. Uh, Amber Galeri.

She's coming home right now, but she's not home yet. All right. Thank you. Is anyone else online? David Salord South, I'm here, but I was interested in the uh multimodal plan item. That's what I uh signed up for. Yes, the multimodal multimodal plan is on the agenda for later. So, if you'll just hang tight. Yes.

Elise Antaya Sir, you present or Elsie? Anyone else? Yes. Megan Ward.

This Megan online and the other two are for item N. Oh, Megan Ward. Yeah, I'm here to talk about sidewalks on Campbell. I'm sorry. What What did you want to talk about? The multimodal thing. Yes, it's later on the agenda. Okay, that's all. Okay, so apparently we have some additional persons who like to speak here. You're welcome to do so. If you care to fill out a card, we would welcome and it's not required. You may just approach the podium.

Hi. Um, you said something that sparked something to me. You said that the city of Campbell is the first one to be looking into something. Um, I'd like to challenge you to be the first one to stand up for the experience of a child growing up in Campbell. I grew up in Campbell. I lived on Bluecat. There was 19 other kids under the age of 18 and I could ride my bike at any time of the day. I have a 5-year-old. I can't even we cannot even walk to school currently. So, building additional housing with no additional support or infrastructure is my current concern. Um, I have I mean people do not follow the mandated rules of a stop sign, let alone adding I have a house being built two houses from me that six families plan on sharing. So, that's 12 additional cars when we already can't walk six houses from our house. And so I challenge you all to protect the experience of children growing up because the last thing I want is a child to not be able to walk to school. Like that was a core memory for me to be able to walk to school. I currently cannot. So if we're building more houses, how do we protect them? You cannot ride your bike on Hosienda currently. So if you put a a housing development that is according to the record sometimes it's five sometimes it's eight sometimes it's 10 but how do you additionally ride like you still can't ride your bike. So like my challenge is to protect the experience of the children because if we are a city and part of a city is education and part of a city is public workers but we're not protecting any of those other pieces. Thank you. I'd like to invite

Mike, you just filled out a card. Yeah, please.

A friend of mine notified me of a building going in right behind my house, 1995 White Oaks. Um, this it was submitted to planning on the 30th of last month. I'm told there's no way to review it. I don't My biggest I don't have a problem with their six two and a half story buildings. I don't have a problem with that. They're pulling out a 400 year old oak tree and putting another tree in its place and I'm trying to get a hold of the people doing that to negotiate to leave that exact existing oak tree. That's my issue. Thank you, Dale. Look.

Hello. Greetings. Um I'm here about the um the 1170 Steinway property proposed for the uh the development and um I'm just kind of looking at the numbers and also I highlight the um this statement where they say that it's going to be um uh the development will conform to the to the current residential um area and and be consistent with the whole residential community there, which is absolutely uh uh false. They're going from uh typically about a 10 10 bedrooms, I think, per half acre to 40 bedrooms per per half acre. Um, and uh I just think that it's it's it's um and also 35 ft which and I see that you're going to I believe you're going to have to do exceptions. So I wonder where do you have to approve these exceptions going from two maximum stories of two and a half stories to three stories. Is that is that Thank you. All these exceptions.

Thank you again. All of your comments are going to be referred to staff individually and request the city manager and the staff planning department take a look at these and uh and um you know reply accordingly. So now I'll call on Rebecca Campos.

Good evening Mayor Fado and city council members and my city council woman and by I appreciate everything that you do here. Um, I am a proud Campbell citizen that moved here as a child in 1960. My my mother is still alive at 819 Chapman Drive across the street from preschool. I bought the house next door to her 20 years ago. I challenge anyone to say they love Campbell more than me. So my my neighbor but so my um my my issue is to be called or considered if we talk about opposing growth or anything like that that we would be and and I what is it the indies not in my backyard when you live someplace for 30 40 50 60 years you watch change you have seen everything happen in your backyard we are people that have a neighborhood I I was part of the Santaas area association. Fought hard to keep Campbell the orchard city. And now every Saturday, every Saturday, I hear the chainsaws cutting down these beautiful trees that granted some of them have to go because they're old and they they've been there for 50, 60 years, 17 years. You know, my part of that neighborhood I live in is, you know, from the 40s. But enough is enough. this thing that they're planning on par and and on Steinway is just for our safety for our police that you know they're barely our we're at the perimeter. We're going to scatter us practically. So we need we need extra consideration as everyone is asking for tonight to give us extra time. Give give yourself a time to study what's gone on because I I I mean I pity the people that went to architect school have no have nothing anymore. They're building horrible things that are houses we have to see. But now the these these

massive these constructions I think that's that we've had enough. So thank you for your time. Thank you. There's gentlemen in the back.

Hey, uh my name is Raja Pala. I live on 1216 West Hienda Avenue. Uh I've been a resident uh for about since 2018. You a lot of you have seen me before. I uh I'm I extremely sympathize with the sentiment of the folks to review the vacancy requirement that are present here. uh for the larger good. I want to remind my beloved neighbors that uh you know the housing element and the general plan update happened for two years and most of what we are seeing today was actually part of the housing element including um the design of the buildings is part of the objective standards. You cannot go against the objective standards to actually build these kinds of houses and things like that. Um for those two years I attended every community meeting uh city council meeting, planning commission meetings and everything. It's lovely to see so many folks here today but during that time it was barely one or two of us attending all those meetings. Um so I I really request I I remember uh about like seven eight years ago sitting in a house on Walnut Street discussing about ADUs whether we should have ADUs or not in this city. uh if if we are going to have adus what should be the permits and all and suddenly state came up and put in all these stuff and we couldn't do anything about it. U one thing I want to highlight is it's unfair to blame the city or the council or the staff about all this for what's coming from the state. From my perspective having been very extremely involved in all of this process as a community the city staff were extraordinary. they always acted fast enough so that things like builder's remedy doesn't kick in. If builder's remedy kick in, people can bid five floors, seven floors, right? So those are the kind of stuff that builder's remedy brings in. Um so

and in the last few decades the amount of venture capital that came in and the number of jobs that created people are traveling all the way from TC. So we need housing but we definitely need to look at you know the vacancy requirements and things like that. Thank you. Thank you.

Yes. You've heard my neighbors and uh these are my neighbors and I love them. Also, I started out in 1972 as a police officer here in this city and it became my home. Uh Don Burr saw this young country kid with a college education and he hired me as police officer. Our neighborhood is as as we've heard getting busy. We have our schools. Parents do have issues taking their children to school because of traffic. And what I see in this development at at 1070 Steinway is not safe. It's not publicly safe. If we talk about 40 bedrooms, as someone mentioned, the number of cars, the number added traffic, and plus folks, it's a residential neighborhood. It's not a neighborhood for an apartment complex. I look at these drafts and they look like apartment complex. And that's really what I want to share is I appreciate you folks hard work and I appreciate my neighbors coming in to express that they want to keep it a Campbell neighborhood. Thank you folks.

Thank you.

Hello. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to everyone here. Um it sounds like a very complicated issue. Um, and something that I'm just getting up to speed and I just want to thank all the neighbors for putting all the time in to bring this forward. Um I will um say not at the end but at the beginning that it feels like that there's something here that people are extremely concerned about and I would um definitely like to have a pause on anything that is decided because it seems like there is legal recourse to consider the vacancy option here um and that we should consider that um as a matter of of thinking about this for all of you and all of you, you can understand the economics. If you say that you can take any home and knock it down and put nine on them, then a home that today is worth $1.5 million is worth $3 to4 million offer to change that into an apartment building. You have nine homes that go on to the home that cost they paid 2x for it. So, they spent $3 million for the home. They're going to build nine because they can and no one can say no. And that will happen next door to you and you and you and you and you and you. And that will happen every second that we sit here. Someone will put in another permit for that until that is not allowed. And that is why I believe that other cities don't have that vacancy. It protects the building that exists as an operating building. That's what I'd like to say. Thank you very much for listening.

Does anyone else wish to speak? Okay, I I will process Yeah, you've already spoken, but I'll just tell you the process. So, question answer. No, no, I got you.

Okay. Is there any guidance as to either where we are in pausing the permits until we get to the bottom of this or is there guidance from you guys as to what we should be thinking about doing to create that pause? Because it feels like, you know, we're on a slippery slope here. I mean, look at it from our perspective. We're waiting to kind of hear what happens here, you know, to with respect to our neighborhoods. So, we're a little bit, you know, jaded in the sense that we we just need to understand where we stand now. Are we pausing the process? Are we going to have deliberation on these things? And if not, how do we get to there?

Thank you. Yes. I first of all, I I do appreciate all of your very thorough comments and the fact that you came well prepared with with details and examples and things of that nature. that's very helpful to us, but it's also helpful to our staff. I would refer the matter to the city manager and your staff um because that's all we can really do tonight. And I will make a special request that if we can move this agenda item up to an earlier meeting, um by the next meeting or whatever, if it's possible to do that, um I would request um that we do so um so that we can move ahead with this. I know it takes some time. you have to um I know it takes some time and there is uh already a a question being u there are several questions being made to the California State Department of Housing uh on this matter. Um we're I know we're awaiting their reply for one thing, but I I would encourage the staff to move this up if at all possible. So again, I thank you all very much. Um I wish I could offer you at this point in time individual answers. Um and I look forward to um continued participation in that.

Mayor Fado, we have one more online. Okay. I I've asked several times if there are any more requests and I've pretty well held it. But now if there's one more, you know, I will allow it, but I've already pretty much closed this off because I invited anyone to speak and there was no one present. They just registered. Would you like Yes. Go ahead. Adam Bookfinder. Hi. Um, sorry, I just installed this app. Can you uh can you hear me? Yes.

Uh, thank you very much. Um, I wasn't planning on speaking tonight, but hearing the comments from my fellow Cambellians, I had to uh speak up. Uh, last week, um, I live in some town homes. Um, I'm raising a daughter here. Uh, I live in some town homes just off of Union. And the other night I heard some shouting and it turned out there were a pair of twins beating a homeless woman who is trying to live between the fence and Highway 17. Um, she's living out there because we had discretionary review because we weren't against housing. We were just against the housing that came up. We just wanted to be cautious. You know, when someone says, "I've lived here for 50 years and I've never seen construction like this." The reason why you've never seen construction like this is because we've done everything to put that lady out there. This is I understand that everybody's worried about parking and about aesthetics. And we have had a general plan process. We've had a multif family development standards process. We've had a process for all of this. The thing that people are asking for is for things to go back to the way they have been for the last 50 years. And the fruit of that is that rents are, you know, skyrocketing towards $3,000. Nobody can afford a home. People are leaving the state. If you're a school teacher and you are, you think that you notice that people are leaving the state. People are leaving the state because they can't afford to live here. And if we do, what and everybody for the last 50 years has been saying, "I don't like it. It's near me. It would it doesn't look right." And I get it. It's change. Change is scary. But everyone is showing up and whether they want to or not, they're saying, "I think that lady should be living in a tent over there where those kids can beat her up."

That is the outcome of what everybody is pushing for. That is where we are. That is how we got there. And if we want to keep getting what we've had, we will keep doing what we've done. Thank you very Thank you.

Okay. With that again, thank you and um our intent is to certainly get back to you. Thank you. We now move on to item number six. This is council announcements. I have several announcements here on behalf of the city council. First of all, the acronym TRUS TR trust is a community service that helps Santa Clara County residents during urgent mental health and substance use situations. Call centers and field response teams are available 24 hours, seven days a week to answer calls for help. Um, and individuals are invited to call 988. Secondly, the registration for summer camp and swim lessons is now available. Please visit the summer preview guide on the city's website at www.camebellca.gov to find out more about these programs. The third announcement is that for the 44th consecutive year, National Arbor Day uh will be celebrated here in Campbell. Uh the National Arbor Day Foundation has proclaimed the city of Campbell as Tree City USA. In celebration of this award, the community is invited to participate in the Arbor Day celebration at 10:00 am on Thursday, April 30th at John D. Morgan Park at the picnic area 2. Next on Friday, April 24th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. um history happy hour at the Anley House will present museum researcher Nick uh Garcia to discuss how the golden era of the New England whaling became intertwined with California and even Campbell itself, revealing surprise maritime connections that help shake our shape our local history. Registration information can be found at campbell museums.com.

Next, the Boogie Music Festival draws over 45,000 attendees from across the Bay Area to downtown Campbell each year. And that is coming up soon. Well, actually next month. The event will take place on Saturday, May 16th from 10:00 to 6:00 and May 17th from 10:00 to 5:00. There are many ways to be a part of this excitement. You can volunteer at the festival, showcase your business with a booth, apply to become a food artisan, a vendor, or join a as a festival sponsor. Um, more information can be made uh can be found at the Campbell Chamber of Commerce website at info.camebellchamber.net. And finally, the skateboard park uh over at the community center there on Campbell Avenue next to the what was football field. um will have a special ribbon cutting cutting to celebrate the new skate equipment that has just been installed. It's actually currently open already and that will be this coming Friday, the 10th of April at 10:00 a.m. So that is all of the council announcements. We now move to the consent calendar. The consent calendar consists of those items on the agenda that the council will take as a single item of business unless a member of the council, a member of the staff, or a member of the public would like to pull an item for further discussion. These are items 7.1 through 7.6. Does anyone wish to pull an item for further discussion? Seeing none, I'll request a motion. I'll move the consent calendar.

Second. We have a motion uh by Vice Mayor By, second by Council Member Lopez. Pardon me. Um roll call, please. Council member Lopez, hi. Council member Hines, hi. Council member Scazola, absent. Vice Mayor Bby, hi. Mayor Fado, hi.

We have no public hearings uh and introduction of ordinances. And so now we move to items under item number nine, new business. First of all, there is item number 9.1 uh approving a contract authorizing the city manager to execute a lease purchase agreement for a new special vehicle. However, this item needs to be rebid and uh therefore we will pull it from the calendar and reconsider it at another meeting after the appropriate bidding has taken place. So now we will move immediately to item 9.2, the Campbell Multimmobile Transportation Plan Project Update. And I'd like to call on I believe Tiffany Hudson first to introduce um this particular subject.

Welcome.

Thank you. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and City Council members. As you know, we've been working on the multimotal plan for almost a year now. We're very excited to bring you an update tonight. Um we're very glad to have Christopher Kidd here with us who is the project manager from Alta who's been supporting this effort. Um so we'll be giving you an update on the plan. We've got a couple of questions for you. Um this is a a key point in the project to get feedback on the draft recommendations um for bike and ped network as well as have a discussion about um these five to six concept designs that will be included in the plan. So, I'll hand it over to Christopher um who will be giving the update um and then we're happy to answer any questions.

Thank you, Tiffany. Welcome, Kristen.

Thank you so much. Um good evening, members of the council, mayor, members of the public. Uh my name is Christopher Kidd. I work for a company called Alta Planning and Design and uh we are are very blessed and lucky to to be leading up the uh the Campbell multimodal transportation plan. Um we also have in attendance Alec Shore from Catalyze SB who's part of our project team. Just wanted to recognize him as well. Um Ian, we're very interested to give you an update on on what we've done so far in the past year and where we'll be heading into the future and how we can make sure that uh that the council is able to to appropriately weigh in on uh on these items. For our agenda today, we wanted to provide an introduction to this project. Um we had gone to city council this past uh past year in the fall, but we want to share with you what we've been doing since then. uh really reiterating our plan goals, what we're trying to build this plan around, as well as provide a summary of the outreach and engagement that we did this past fall. Um we also wanted to briefly share some of the analysis that we've conducted to help complement that uh that public outreach and then to share an overview of our recommendations which really were developed kind of as a fusion between the analysis we conducted and the input that we got from the public. Um we wanted to share our plans for the upcoming phase of our round to outreach which begins today as well as getting direct input from the city council on uh both our recommendations and our next steps moving towards concept designs. Uh so to introduce the plan um why are we doing a multimotal plan in the first place and really it is a a a plan meant to help support a growing city and maintain quality of life for people. We know that Campbell is growing. We've heard a lot about that tonight already um and about the challenges that come along with growth. And really one way that we can help to manage that is to make sure that our transportation network is safe and functional for all of our users as well as providing as many options as possible

for pe for how people can move around um so that when people are able to leave their cars at home for short trips that benefits everybody and helps maintain quality of life within the community. Uh we also know need to look forward into the future about how we make our investments in the transportation network. And part of developing a multimotal transportation plan helps to prioritize the types of projects that the city would want to move forward uh but also to help make them more competitive for future grant funding sources so that there's ways to multiply the money that you have put up into your projects into your city streets uh from other places um especially in times when you may have a constrained budget. Uh so talking about what the the multimmoal transportation plan is um after we talk about why we we're doing it is it really is the city Campbell's first citywide plan for improving mobility. Uh the city has a transportation element within their general plan but outside of that there's no comprehensive citywide plan about how transportation is addressed. Um this involves a two-year planning process um after winning a CALR sustainable transportation planning grant to fund this work. Uh and the focus of this work while it is multimodal, we're f trying to focus on improvements and investments for walking, biking, and taking transit. Um, and what the result of this really will end up providing is a roadmap for city staff and for the city so that there can be a higher level degree of confidence in what types of projects get moved forward and why and how they're prioritized to fit the needs of the city as well as the needs of the public. Um, so briefly our project schedule is a project we started back in June of last year. Um, where as I mentioned before we went to the city council in August to provide an update at the beginning of the project. Uh we did a phase of public outreach this past fall. Um using the input that we got, we developed a series of project recommendations that were vetted through city staff. And here we are again, city council getting ready to

take those recommendations back to the public. Um we'll be then moving through past after that phase ends. We'll be moving into the developing concept plans which we'll be talking about a little bit later in this presentation and then coming back to the city council again for both the draft plan and the final plan on its way to adoption hopefully. Um the feedback is just and we'll be talking about this later on in the presentation but the the feedback and the input that we really want to focus on tonight are getting high level feedback about the vision and goals and the network recommendations for the plan generally speaking. Um but we also really want to make sure that we're having a detailed discussion with city council about how we uh look towards the development of concept designs. And when we say concept designs, these are our high level feasibility documents and examples shown here from the city of Hayward that really helps to queue up and prioritize the most important projects coming out of this plan to be competitive for future grant funding. So this really gets the city a head start into being able to realize these plans and and capture available regional, state, and federal money to make those those projects real. Um so with that I wanted to provide a quick overview of the uh work that we've done over the past year our outreach in the first round and our analysis work. Um so starting with our first round of outreach uh with spann the late summer into early fall of last year uh we had a online web map available. We held a series of different events popup events workshop events. We held mobility audits doing a biking tour and a walking tour in downtown Campbell. Uh we did coordination through the safe routes to schools program to ensure that we were getting the word out to all schools and families throughout the area. Um as well as convened a technical advisory committee of interested city stakeholders as well as agency partners around uh the Campbell community. Um as

part of that we were able to engage over 1500 residents and receiving over 1,800 public comments. And this map on the right here shows the density of comments that we received um through through that process across the city of Campbell and sometimes outside city boundaries. Um for a brief overview of the things that we heard and what we learned during this outreach phase is that safety is is the top priority of Camel residents. Traffic safety is is the thing that we need to be focusing on the most. And when we talk about traffic safety, we we really talk about uh pedestrians primarily. How do we make a safer and easier uh network for pedestrians to be able to move around the city? Um but we also heard a lot about interest in improving bike access, especially towards downtown and the Prunyard and connecting to neighboring cities. Um, we also had heard a lot about the major streets, uh, Campbell Avenue, Hamilton, Winchester, and that those are the places where people have the most challenges, they have the most problems, and there's the most, um, constraints there about creating the type right types of solutions, and that we really heard that clearly from the public that those were areas they wanted us to focus on. Um, and as part of our round one outreach, we included um targeted outreach to to low-income communities as well as to Spanish-sp speakaking communities. And we heard that from the public that that was something they appreciated, they wanted to see continued into the future. Um, complementing that outreach work, we also did a series of analysis. And I won't kind of go through and explain everything that's in here, but just to say we did a a very comprehensive look at trying to understand different roadway conditions. We looked at safety with collisions. We looked at at transit access and where transit was was ridership was the highest and different patterns of ridership over transit. We looked at at uh at access and movement uh within our our equity communities

within uh Campbell as well as looking at where things like short driving trips taking place, short driving trips that could potentially be taken by other modes by walking, biking, taking transit. um as well as looking at what we call the bicycle level traffic level traffic stress which understands tries to understand where uh are the barriers that exist that deter people from riding a bike today. Um and this is just a a very brief overview of kind of what some of those different analyses look like just to give just a little flavoring of of the different types of things that we learned and that we tried to understand when going into developing our project recommendations. Um, some of the key takeaways is that is that we've learned that 25% of driving trips in Campbell are under six miles. Uh, and there's some areas of Campbell where more than 40% of driving trips are under three miles. So, those are the trips where there's a high potential for people to be able to take those in different ways. And we need to dig into and understand what is deterring people from taking some of those trips, not all of them, but some of them by alternate modes because by doing so we can help improve things like safety and quality of life within the community. Um we also know that that while the percentage of people who walk and bike to work, 3% is very low. that when we look at our collisions and our collision records, more than half of serious and fatal collisions that take place in Campbell involve somebody that's walking and biking. And so when we think about safety and putting a safety lens on our work, those are the vulnerable users that we need to be thinking about for how we create solutions. Uh and when we look at pedestrian collisions in particular, they're grouped close to transit stations, they're grouped close to schools and to local services on uh some of our commercial corridors. Um, we also looked at our transit analysis, understand looking at where the the

transit ridership is highest, understandably at some of our light rail stations, but also right around the Campbell Community Center. Um, and that we understand through our analysis that some of the major streets like Hamilton, even while they sometimes have bike lanes on them, they still are present a very high barrier of stress uh to to people riding bikes. and that even when we have a regular bike lane on the street like that, it still is something that would deter a lot of folks uh normal folks from being willing to to ride a bike there. So, that all then comes together in the development of our draft recommendations. And how we got to those is we looked at all of the past plans that have been adopted both within the the county and regionally and within the city. We looked at the public input that was provided uh as well as the analysis that we did. We combined all three of those to develop a series of project recommendations that went through city staff review. Uh and we are bringing them to you tonight. Um those include our our vision and goals. Uh recommendations for our pedestrian network, for the bicycle network, and what we call recommendations for safety corridors, the locations where we're seeing the ma vast majority of collisions taking place, as well as improvements for transit service. Uh so we started with a vision statement. Um and I'll just read this vision statement out is that the city of Campbell will create a safe, comfortable and efficient multimodal transportation system that is accessible to all residents and visitors to the city. Investments in multimotal transportation system will improve quality of life, enhance economic vitality, improve safety, provide more mobility options to all and help the city achieve its climate goals. And really we wanted to set that vision out upfront and and then allow all of the work and the recommendations that we developed to really trickle down from that place and have that be kind of the guiding vision

of how we approach our recommendations develop. And those start with our draft goals. And those were goals that we brought to the public during the first phase of public outreach to get input on the appropriateness of them. And really the first goal as we'd mentioned from the public input that we got at the top is roadway safety. Um but complementing that are things like improving our network cohesiveness and connectivity. Being able to connect our networks a little bit better for multiple ways of getting around so that people can have more choices. also pursuing equity to ensure that the investments that we make are are can can directly impact the people who would benefit the most from those investments. Uh we also want to ensure that the investments that we make help the city achieve its climate goals and improve public health as well as develop a strategy that can improve the city's fiscal outlook by making the city more competitive for grant application funding. So moving then into some of the network recommendations that we developed. We developed a series of pedestrian network recommendations um where there are intersect there there are recommendations at at many different intersections where really focusing especially on locations where there's the highest volumes of pedestrian uh traffic as well as the locations where there's the most collisions taking place. Um, but we also have a a series of uh of limited recommendations for for sidewalk uh improvements. And really that was looking at a very strategic set of of of gap closures where there's very small gaps in the sidewalk network where there's an opportunity to more fully connect. As well as we understand, you know, there are some neighborhoods that, you know, that that have area plans that that don't allow sidewalks. And so we wanted to respect that those requirements um but still find opportunities to create um you know safe and dedicated walking spaces for people

to be able to move through those neighborhoods in a in a more comfortable and confident way. We also developed recommendations for the draft bicycle network um which includes upgrades and studies for some of the major streets. Uh, a lot of these major streets, we recognize that there's a lot of competing needs on them and that the the conditions for bicyclists today are not ideal. Um, but that we don't have a a a an exact perfect solution today and that it demands kind of further study for us to understand the trade-offs that are involved. Um, but in addition to that, we have a series of other recommendations, including new bicycle and pedestrian overcrossings to really help create better east west connections. With the Loscatos Creek Trail, you have wonderful north south connections, but it it's actually very difficult to move east to west in a safe and comfortable way. and and a lot of those that stems to having some some pretty substantial barriers uh like the Sanchos Expressway um or Las Creek to to being able to make those those trips without having to go onto a major street. Um, we've also created recommendations for a parallel network of bike friendly neighborhood streets as an alternative to some of these major roadways as well as some projects for some new shared use paths uh where there's it's a off- streetet facility shared between bicycles and pedestrians like the low Scottish Creek Trail most notably one uh that would go along the side of the Santomas Expressway um as uh identified in the Santa Clara countywide act of transportation um complenting our bicycle and pedestrian recommendations. We also have draft safety corridors and these are the locations where we've identified the the vast majority of serious and fatal injury collisions identifying what's called a high injury network of of locations that that should be have particular focus for safety with a special emphasis really on managing speed. Um so you know we we know from

safety from kind of the safe systems approach that the higher uh travel speed gets the the likelihood that someone in a collision a pedestrian collision it that decreases exponentially as that travel speed goes up. And so when we look at these types of quarters, we want to understand how do we manage speeds both on our regular arterials so that we're still moving traffic because that's one of the primary purposes of those arterials, but doing so in a way that can help to manage speeds appropriately and effectively to balance the safety needs. But also looking at some of our local roadways and local corridors where we can have a greater focus on lowering travel speeds and creating safer spaces within communities. And uh lastly among kind of our mapped recommendations is we have uh transit corridor recommendations that we've tried to align with VTA's long-term plans. We're really trying to identify and understand where are some high frequency routes, high frequency transit stops where we should really try to work with ETA to focus on how do we provide better amenities for some of those stops. How do we create better connections to those stops for first and last mile connections for people accessing the transit because of course anyone who rides a bus is also a pedestrian. Um, and another uh set of of recommendations we've developed are suggested types of programs. Um, and these are just examples that of types of programs that that could be developed. Um, but you know, the city of Campbell already runs a really robust number of programs to support transportation and walking and biking. But we look at them with through these different lenses of of engineering programs, encouragement, education, uh, things like the safe routes to schools program. Um, but also looking at enforcement and evaluation, understanding when we build a project, how effective is it in improving safety? How effective is it in improving uh walking and biking trips within a community?

Um, so after going through all of those recommendations, which I understand is a lot, um, I did want to kind of share with you our upcoming plans for our second round of engagement before talking a little more in depth about our draft, our concept plans. Um so the the area that we're really focused on with the public uh with this uh upcoming round of engagement is really understanding out of all those recommendations that we've just shared what's missing what did we get wrong what needs to change. Um, and I think in addition to that, we also want to understand from the public which projects that we've recommended should be prioritized the most because what this comes down to is is you know there's the all of the projects that we've identified that the city will not be able to build all of those even within 20 years. So a really big part of this process is trying to understand which need to be prioritized the most. Uh, and that's reflecting the needs of the city, the needs of the community. um as well as things like looking at safety outcomes. Um and so how we're getting that input in this upcoming phase is we have a a web map tool that is available. It's it's on the city's project website right now. Uh where people can review all of the project recommendations we've developed. They can like it, they can dislike it, they can leave comments on it. Uh we'll also be doing targeted promotion around the city um kind of throughout this month into next month holding a a series of pop-up events, one at the Prinyard, one at the farmers market in downtown Campbell, and we'll be holding an in-person community workshop actually not in April, but just at the beginning of May at the Campbell Community Center. Uh and so once we get past this current phase of of public engagement, uh our next steps really are to focus on prioritization is to take the results of that public input as well as a lot of other inputs we've been pulling together to try to understand how do we

prioritize this project list for what comes out on top. Um we'll then take some of those top projects and begin working on developing concept designs which we'll be talking about right after this. Um and then ideally taking those back to the city council in the form of the draft plan where the public will still be able to comment on that draft plan. We're planning to hold another community workshop uh in the fall when we release that draft plan as well as bringing the final plan for adoption next February. Um so now I wanted to move over to talking again about concept designs and how we want to ensure that we're getting really strong direction from city council uh on this topic. So the the plan and as we've scoped it, as the work we've scoped is that we'll be including five to six concept designs that could range in scale and complexity. If we're designing a single intersection, we can get pretty detailed. If we're designing a two-m long corridor, there's a little less detail that that that we can put into that. But each of these we're hoping to develop into what we call a grant ready package that it will include things like cost estimates uh for future phases of the project. uh and a schedule to really help the city understand uh what the impact is and to also make those more competitive for for the application process. And so for the requested city input that we want to seek tonight is that we want to get direction from the city on where we should be focusing our work when we look at concept designs. So, you know, based on community feedback that we'd received in the previous phase, you know, this could be focused on safety improvements with a focus on our major streets. It could include improving access to downtown in the prune. Uh it could include focusing on our schools and safe routes to school projects as well as uh park access, which was another big theme that we heard from the community. Uh we could also be looking at focusing on

creating f better first and last mile connections to transit whether the light rail stations or some of the high ridership bus stops or looking at how do we create stronger and broader regional connections uh with the regional bike network through some of BTA's work and the county active transportation. Um and as I mentioned some of these you know concepts can range in scale and complexity. Some of our projects could end up being very small or what we sometimes call a quick build project. Projects that can be done with sometimes temporary materials or deployed very quickly. Sometimes you can put them out onto the street to be able to to uh understand the impact that they have before you go back and then build it with concrete. Um but others may be much more capital intensive. You know, building an overcrossing of the Santomas Expressway, it's going to be a very expensive project. Um, we could have designs that are are focused in specific areas like downtown or we could f instead try to uh spread those designs out to to represent and and capture different areas of the city. And also one area that we want to ensure that we're getting good feedback on from city council is, you know, is a is a project that has lower impacts, lower potential impacts around things like the potential to remove parking or potential to cause congestion, but it provides a lesser benefit in terms of things like safety or or improving uh accessibility for for walking and biking. or do we want to focus on things that may have higher impacts but can really have a transformative effect in in terms of safety and the ability of people to move around in lots of different ways. Um so I guess to to to wrap things up um you know we're seeking input from from city council tonight of getting broad feedback around our vision and goals and our network recommendations. I think particularly from the lens of anything that's a a big really big red flag that maybe we got wrong. Uh or something that

really we should be looking at prioritizing and that you've heard is important to your constituents. Um, but then we also want to ensure that we're getting really detailed uh input from the city council again on our our concept designs to ensure that um that when we bring those concept designs back to you when we get have the draft plan ready this this fall um that it's not something that's a big surprise that it's really something you're expecting that you can feel like you can support um to really line those up for successful grant applications into the future. Um so with that I wanted to uh thank you for sitting through a very long presentation um but also have an opportunity to hear from yourselves and from the public as well and to engage in discussion on this project. Thank you.

Likewise Christopher, thanks very much for a very thorough presentation. Appreciate that. Thank you. First I'll ask if there are questions by members of the city c

Yeah, just uh um just outstanding. I love this. I I love the audits. You saw me at both audits. So, uh the that was just fantastic on those. But just and then I have several detailed comments that I'll make, but just a question on McGllinsy. It showed that you there was a action that you're making on McGlansy. Can you explain what that what you're thinking of on McGllinsy? Yeah. And that might be catching you off guard with a specific road. Do you know where

you know I'll uh I'll bring it up as a I'll bring it up as a specific comment. Okay. Feedback on that because it's it'd be great to address it. I don't know how you're going to address it, but it'd be great to address it. So, I'll I'll I'll bring it back as a specific comment.

Yeah. No, I I appreciate that. I I do my best to try to know every street for each city that I work with, but I there's sometimes where the specific one kind of catches me unaware. Just just as a point of information, McGlinsson Lane is off of Union Avenue and it's been primarily an industrial area, but the Campbell Technology Parkway has been reszoned for housing and there is a lot of planned housing and likewise there's a lot of concern amongst um the business interests there about a lot of pedestrians and so on because they have big vehicles and they're concerned. Now, I'm sure all of that will be addressed in the EIR and so on, but just as a point of information, that's a little bit where it is and a little bit about the problem.

That's helpful context. I think I believed for that location. We had recommended a a pedestrian walkway which is kind of a halfway recognition that you know this is a space where you you don't have quite the conditions to be able to build a full sidewalk but you still want to be able to create safe conditions for pedestrian travel. Um so that would include having some sort of rubberized barrier or paint striping um to kind of create a dedicated space Um, you might be referring to figure two in the staff report draft by network recommendations. It shows the Valency Lane as a study corridor. There isn't any specific improvements recommended yet. It is a corridor identified for future recommendations. Um, no. I believe that actually was uh identified as a as a bike route.

Um, so within the bike network that was identified as a bike route, which would just mean uh not taking away any space on the roadway, but instead just having signage and and potentially we call sher, the shared lane markings on the roadway, which really helps to create more awareness uh about uh about the presence of of bicycles on that roadway. Uh and so yeah, I think for that location in particular, understanding that there are industrial uses, um you know, we didn't think that that having something more robust than that would would necessarily be appropriate. I'll make I'll make more comments.

Yeah, direct feedback. Okay, it appears we don't have any questions at the moment. Uh any further questions? So, uh we will now first of all ask for public comments. Does any member of the public wish to um make a comment on this matter? We have anyone online? Yes, we have four people online. Okay, we have four people online. So, please go ahead and call on them. So, the first is Megan Ward.

I don't have any comments at this time.

Next would be Trudy the France.

Uh yes, I um was not sure about um a couple of things. one, I had filled out the survey about um uh Union Avenue from um Baskam to Campbell Avenue, and I wasn't sure if that's what you were talking about when you said you would just put um sign or marking saying share the road with bikes because people travel very very quickly or you know, they're often speeders that go over the 35 30 miles an hour signage. age. And I think um part of it has a bike lane and part of it doesn't. And I think that's hard on bikers when you just have that one mile to get up to Pruniard and then get over to downtown Campbell. And I think you may want to try and and do something better about um uh bike safety on Union Avenue. Also, um, pedestrian pathways. Was that what you were mentioning? Maybe rubberized or doing some kind of of striping or something. And I do support the overcrossing at Santa Moss because it is kind of dangerous to get to um Los Gats Creek Trail from our side of Campbell to cross over to the east side. And I do support sidewalks on Curtner. I think that is very very important because of the traffic especially if they do some more development on our side of on Campbell. Thank you.

Thank you. Did you have a comment at this time on any of those comments? I mean I just wonder if So maybe we should finish the public comments and then we Okay. All right. Go ahead. would be David Sro.

Hi, thank you. David Sjord. Uh I live on uh one of the small culde-sacs off of Dallas Drive and I'd like to echo uh what the last speaker said and we're not organized but uh appreciate your comment that the sidewalks on Curtainer have been really uh the lack of sidewalks is really u a very major thing I think for many people in our neighborhood. I mean, uh, we raised children here and, you know, the thought of them walking to Bagby or Price, um, elementary or middle school, uh, you know, they'd be walking in the mud after the rain, uh, just to get, uh, from our house to Basum. And it's, uh, you know, people walk more and more in the neighborhood. So, I also wanted to uh express appreciation for what's shown in terms of the uh the sidewalks on on Dallas and going out uh Stonehurst and and to uh Union on on Cambrian. You know, uh we have a board and care around the corner from us. And when I moved here for a number of years, uh my mother was in a similar facility and she would visit and and even pushing her around in a wheelchair on the streets, you know, without any sidewalk and with cars parked, you know, you're you're pushing a wheelchair or a stroller uh you know, on the travel side of of of vehicles that are parked along the curb. uh we really do need uh some uh consideration for safety for uh people walking for exercise, walking their dogs or or people trying to get to the grocery store or to school. Thank you.

Thank you. And we have Thomas Hner. Thomas, did you say yes? Thomas Hner

didn't realize I had to unmute. Can you hear me?

Yes. Um, so I'm relatively new to this plan. I live on Cambrian Drive and it was unclear to me what a pedestrian walkway entailed, if it was just marking on the on the street. We don't have sidewalks. And when we petitioned to be incorporated by Campbell, I recall that there was some sort of communication that we wouldn't be required to have sidewalks. Um, and if we do end up with these pedestrian walkways, does that preclude parking on our street where these walkways are painted or or whatever they entail. Um, I I uh do support having sidewalks on uh on Camden because that's always been a challenge. uh when I'm biking to uh get to the Creek Trail. Um somewhat dangerous in that area. That's all I have. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Okay. Does anyone else wish to speak on the matter? All right. will close the public hearing and uh return the item to council for further discussion.

Um thank you staff for the um not just the great presentation but all the incredible community outreach um effort. Um and certainly one of the most u robust efforts I I can remember hearing about. Um so it's great to have that that truly representative community feedback. Um I I think what I'm hearing so far is right in line with um where we should be. In particular, the the focus on uh both uh safety uh access, pedestrian safety, bicycle safety, all those things. Um I for for a long time I felt that's um one of the major um uh shortcomings with with our our wonderful city um is just that in particular places given um how much of it is so walkable and how many amenities there are so close by and that is something that we continue to to to hear that attracts people uh uh here there's just an opportunity to to do um a lot more. So, I'm interested in hearing that. And and and the second one of the something I appreciate about the focus is um being uh the way you put it being grant ready. Um and I think of it as just we we can't do everything all the the lines um that that we saw on that map. It's it's a great vision, but in terms of just prioritizing within the relatively short to medium term where we're going to move, um I think it is um would be ready for those grants. um in in addition to something that I think practically speaking would already be incorporated within that but to coordinate that with um where else in the city do we have other planning processes. So uh major one that jumps to mind is um all the work the multiple projects that going um along uh Hamilton um and all the planning work that that is going there. So I I just pull that as as one example that's obviously um in the plan and it's accounted for. Um but I think that's

something the more intersection we can have with work but that's already going on where grant funding can potentially support that um I think the better. But I think it's uh completely um in the right direction really critical work. Um I do uh look for this being a tool to help us get more funding. Um so really look forward to seeing it uh continue. Thank you. Thank you.

So, I got a bit to uh to give. So, just I'm really again I'm really excited about this just a fantastic work uh that uh that's been been done on this. Um just from a broader level, uh the Santomas bike path is that'd be fantastic to get that because that could really extend out into other areas. Again, coming back to uh so Campa Village, as I've said from the beginning, we're taxed and trapped. Um tax is another another topic that I I brought up before, but trapped in that we can't we can't get out um other than in a car. Uh we can't walk safely, certainly can't bike safely. So, um, really want to and as you know, or we'll not make some comments later, but as Rod Deiron told me, it was a it was in county for hands for too long. So, it's going to be a struggle for us to uh to improve on it. Uh, but I but I really want us to be able to focus on on this. It looks like you're talking about at Baskaman Union, there's a planned work at the light light there. That's a, you know, it just is terrifying to make a left-hand turn at that uh which I have to do all the time and anybody in Campbell Village would have to. Um, so really appreciate taking a look at that. The Dallas Avenue, you've got the bend uh that you're getting over to Curtain. Um, the the bend is always dangerous. I' I'd encourage you to which it'd have to have some serious traffic calming. I can't even drive that. I don't drive it because it's it's scary. I would I would consider looking at Solerno um going from Dallas to Solerno to Curtner to and then I can't remember the going uh the one that goes south from from when Dallas hits Curtainer. Look at look at

using Solerno uh for that in instead of doing the bend on uh on Dallas Avenue. Just might make it easier. Um yeah. And then uh right at getting across Camden from Irwin to Parsons, there's a you're playing Frogger trying to get across that. I I I do that often. Um but uh there needs to be something that happens there. The Union back bike lane that's from the 60s, you know, and uh um uh the Adam and I have both talked about the lip uh that sits there. Um and uh it's it's not usable for anything. The Ker sidewalks, uh you've heard from three of the constituents from Campbell Village. Um I totally uh want to see that happen because that that's a main artery. Uh it's an arterial street. There's always people walking on it. Uh that we need to uh um need to have make that happen. So great work to see that. Um, and then I' I've brought this up several times just to at least have somebody look at a bike path uh from Edith Morly Campbell Tech Park to Campbell Avenue on the east side of uh 17. Um, just that uh you know right now there's a 10-ft Calra wall. I have to believe there's three or four feet on the other side of that that's available for a bike lane. Uh, and then that would give us uh um give us access from uh from there into uh into the area. So, you know, again, I'll close again. You know, Campbell Village is trapped. We need to we need to be released. So, uh from a biking and pedestrian standpoint. So, great work. Terrific work. Thank you.

Yeah.

Thank you. So, two things that um rise to the top for me would be the safety and ease of walking. Um Curt's been addressed as needing sidewalks. Um the Mindsy area in itself I think needs to be u evaluated and and upgraded and taken into consideration the safety of pedestrians that are going to be walking in that in that area now that we're going to be building housing. It's not a very um user user friendly walkable area. So what whatever can be done to uh mitigate some of that. And then the other thing that I um that struck me was the network cohesiveness and the uh connectivity. And I think um two or three places that that come to mind um would be along our major corridors along Bas along Winchester um because they connect into San Jose, Losatus um and also Lee Avenue. I don't know how much emphasis or discussion is happening with Lee Avenue, but I think that might be um an area for for enhanced bike uh lanes and bike safety.

Thank you. Julie left off.

Yeah, sorry. I wanted to give you the uh you had asked for priority on your priority list. So, uh thank you. I I got too in the the weeds on my my comments, but I always do that. But uh uh I did uh I did take a look at your your list and and from a priority standpoint, you've got the list in the right priority. Uh safety and safety improvements. We have to be safe when we're doing the statistic that you gave on the 3% is the majority of where or the that's where the injuries are coming from the 3% walker. So safety improvements uh improving access to downtown. I talked about the east side of 17 safe routes to school and access to parks. I'd love to be able to uh ride my bike over to Edith Mley which is only about 200 yards away just I can't can't ride my bike there. And then the uh the fourth with the last mile transit connections that's important in the regional bikeways I think your Santaas gets that so appreciate it.

Okay. Thank you. Uh my own comments uh focus on primarily um safe routes. So I I would like to uh see us prioritize uh safe routes to schools uh safe routes to um uh parks uh and uh safe routes to neighborhood stores and so on. Sometimes if we want people to walk, hopefully they're willing to walk to the store if it's a safe route to do so. Um and also um as you know of course the the creek trail is very popular. So, um, obviously if people if we have a safe routes for those persons, uh, accessing the creek trail at various locations, I think that's important. And then finally, I know it's kind of penciled in, but I would hope that we would, uh, go beyond penciling it in. Uh there is a proposal uh to put a another pedestrian uh highway 17 overcrossing from the corner of uh Camel Technology Parkway where there'll be a lot of houses and a lot of people and maybe a lot of children. So that that would divert a lot of pedestrian and bicycle riders from having to go down um to Union and and so on. Uh if we could it's very expensive. It's not like something we can just uh plan on our budget that simply hopefully uh and it would require approval of CALR and a variety of agencies, but it'd be great if that someday that could happen as well. So, that's where I'd like to um see, you know, priority routes and access to recreation and community services. I the just mayor the proposal that the suggestion that I was making of the uh east side of Campbell Avenue was specifically to um be able to relieve the pedestrian traffic coming out of Campbell Tech at a onetenth the cost and probably onetenth the time uh to build the the transfer u the the overcrossing.

We still don't need the overcrossing, but I think the the bike lane going up the east side of 17 I'll give a much quicker answer. Sure. Um I think those are pretty much our comments. Any any comments on your part or any further things you'd like from this?

We just want to thank you for the thorough feedback this evening. We really appreciate it's very important to us to have your input as well as the rest of the community. Um, so I just want to take one last moment to remind everyone that the project website came. Has an update on the project. It has a link to the web map that we mentioned. Um, and it's available now so the community can go ahead and start liking, unliking, and adding comments.

Good. Thank you. Thank you, Tiffany, for your work, Christopher, for yours. Uh thank you to our uh public works uh staff and our traffic engineer and our um community development director and actually all the staff who contribute to this. So um with that I don't think any further action is necessary on our part. So we'll close this item. Thank you.

Um item number 10. We have no unfinished business and we now go to uh council committee reports. Uh do members of the council have committee reports? Well, I I attended a couple things. Um, I attended the SECA meeting uh last week uh a legislative subcommittee meeting um where we forget the number the name of the bill, but we took a letter or took a position of support for

9:22. Um the education subcommittee met this afternoon and we discussed priorities and some discussion topics. And I also participated in the Bunnies and Bonnets parade and I want to thank Brooke and Amy from the DCBA for their coordination of that event. It's not an easy event to coordinate with all the people that are participating. So, thank them. That's it.

Thank you, Hannah. Cherry. Yeah, I attended the League of California Cities, the Housing Community and Economic Development uh where we reviewed um several legislative items uh to give feedback to the authors uh of those bills and it was a good uh good discussion and uh actually uh walked to it. So, I walked to the light rail, took the light rail to Amtrak, took Amtrak down to Costa Mesa, and and I've had to Uber the last section, but um but uh it was a it was a good track that way. I uh uh attended the uh DCBA meeting and uh the economic development manager is doing a great focus uh to respond. We get a lot of questions on uh outside of what Campbell downtown is and Campbell business is really um and Campbell Council can really address. Uh but uh economic development manager does a great job of focusing on Campbell topics. Uh attended the Bunnies and Bundance with my wife and granddaughter. So they both had a a terrific time. And I want to uh want to do a tribute and shout out to the unwaving inspiration and dedication to public transportation by Rodan.

Thank you. Thank you. Yes, sir. You

um thank you. Uh we had our meeting of the BTA board of directors um and and number of of um items including one of them um something that's relevant for Kimble which was an update on what's known as transit signal priority. Um and and this is making sure that um buses have a little bit more priority as they're going through through stop lightss. Um really one of the biggest improvements you can make to speed up the system. Um and just has a lot of knock-on effects. Um after and I just mentioned that because Campbell recently um received funding in fact is one of the first in in the county to receive um such funding. We've got other cities and my colleagues on the board looking at us and wondering how how they can get in on it. Um but but it's a testament to the great um work done done done by our staff. Um also just wanted to to mention and you can read about this more online or I'm I'm happy to to share offline as well, but there's also proposal that was moved forward that meeting which um was uh an initial referral. that will need to be brought back ultimately to the board of directors of ETA for for adoption similar to our process. Um but regarding um prohibiting um ICE from using uh non uh property that is owned by VTA that is not open to the public. Um and so I I u just mention that if if that's of interest um to colleagues or or staff. Um and and and similarly I you know I I was really um uh just heartbroken um by the passing um this past week of Rod Giron senior and I want to see if we could adjourn in his memory after council. Yeah, Sergio, I thought we had a uh immigration topic coming up on the agenda, which my understanding that

would be where we talking about ICE at that point. So, I would I would totally be supportive of that to include that in that discussion. Yeah. Yeah. Not not getting just wanted to mention that VTA had this come forward and folks can find more information.

Thank you. I'll just add my comments on the passing of Rod Derdon, longtime resident, a member of the community, member of the board of supervisors, very dedicated to his work for many years. Of course, transportation was a of special interest and concern to him. Uh he was involved with model railroads and uh and just a variety of things. headed up the Manetta Transportation Institute at San Jose State was responsible really for founding that particular institute and naming it in honor of the late Congress member and member of presidential staff um Norm Manetta. And so uh yes, I would like to honor Ron by adjouring the meeting in his honor. Thank you all for attending tonight.