Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

We are calling to order the planning director hearing of June 10th, 2026. My name is Martina Davis and I'm the hearing officer for today's agenda on behalf of and delegated by director of planning building and code enforcement, Christopher Burton. This meeting is being held via zoom conference call members of the public may participate following the instructions listed on page two of the agenda. If you'd like to provide public comment, you have two methods to do so. For participants who joined electronically and have audio input available on their computer or smartphone, they can use the raised hand feature in Zoom. During the agenda item, they would like to speak or click star nine on their phone. Remember to keep your hand raised feature on until the planning support staff identify your turn to speak. During the meeting, if you do not have a smartphone or computer access, call 408-535-8517 or email planningsupportstaff at sanjoseaca.gov and identify your name that's listed in the Zoom you've called in with, phone number that you've called in with or will call in with, and what items or item you'd like to comment on. All members of the public will remain on mute until the individual identifies they would like to speak and they are unmuted. Planning and support staff will identify you by name when it is your turn to speak. At that time, you'll be unmuted and can provide comment for the allotted time. If you exceed your allotted time, you'll be muted so that we can move on to the next speaker. Please note the following. The procedure and order of input will be as follows. I will identify each project as described on the agenda. For those items on the consent calendar, I will ask if anyone wishes to speak on the item. If a separate discussion is warranted, I will move the item to the public hearing portion of the agenda. If a separate discussion is not needed, so no one has asked to speak on this item, it will remain on the consent calendar for approval. For those latest items listed in our public hearing, which we don't have any this morning, I'll ask staff to provide a brief report. If anything does get pulled into public hearing, this is how it will go. The applicant or their representative who wishes to speak on the item will have up to five minutes to speak and should identify themselves by stating their name for the record. After the applicant or the representative has spoken, any member of the public who wishes to speak on the item may provide testimony for up to two minutes per speaker, either for or against the project. All members of the public should identify their name for the record, although this is not required. Following comments from the public, the applicant may make an additional remark for up to five minutes. I will then close the public hearing on the item, and I may ask staff to answer questions, respond to comments made by the applicant or public, or further discuss the item, and then I will then take action on the item. If you challenge these land use decisions in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at this public hearing or in written correspondence delivered to the City at or prior to the public hearing. The Planning Director's actions on these agenda items will be final when the permit is signed and mailed unless the permit or environmental clearance determination is appealed. The planning director's actions on the permits are appealable in accordance with the requirements of Title 20 of the Municipal Code, so the zoning ordinance. The director's actions on environmental review for the permits under the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, are separately appealable in accordance with the requirements of Title 21 of the Municipal Code, which is our environmental clearance ordinance. Before I begin, I want to remind members of the public to follow our code of conduct at the meetings. This includes commenting on the specific agenda item only. Public speakers will not engage in conversation with the hearing officer or staff. The hearing officer, staff, and the public are expected to refrain from abusive language. Repeated failure to comply with the code of conduct which will disturb, disrupt, or impede the orderly conduct of this meeting may result in removal from the meeting. The meeting of the director's hearing will now come to order. Okay, so first item on our agenda is deferrals I see no items for deferral staff if there's any changes that please unmute yourself i'll give you a second let me know. All right. So seeing nobody, no items for deferral this morning. So this matter is now closed. We will move on to our consent calendar. So as a reminder, there'll be no separate discussion of individual items on the consent calendar as they are considered to be routine and will be considered in one action unless it is moved to a public hearing for separate discussion. You may comment if you're a member of the public on the entire consent calendar and any items removed from the consent calendar. So you can ask, basically, here's your chance if you'd like to speak on any of these two items, please raise your hand now. I'm going to read them out. H-25003 and ER-25022, so this is a site development permit for a second story addition of approximately 968 square feet to an existing 1782 square foot duplex, resulting in an approximately 2750 square foot duplex on an approximately 0.14 gross acre lot. Located at 488 and 490 Doma Drive. The CEQA is exempt pursuant to guidelines section 15301 for existing facilities and staff's recommendation is to consider the exemption and approve the site development permit. The next item is PD-25005 and ER-25053. This is a plan development permit to allow the construction of a detached accessory structure exceeding 650 square feet. The project consists in the construction of approximately 1,117 square foot detached accessory structure, pergola in this case. Located in the rear yard of an existing single-family home on an approximately 0.38 gross acre lot located at 5735 La Saine Place. This is also the CEQA recommendation is exempt pursuant to guidelines section 15303 for new construction or conversions of small structures. And again, this one, the staff recommendation is to consider the exemption in accordance with CEQA and approve the plan development permit. Are there any members of the public here in attendance today who would like to speak on either of these two items? So the duplex edition at 488 or 490 Doma Drive or the pergola at 5735 La Cien Place? Any raised hands? All right. I'm seeing nobody. Danielle, support staff, you want to confirm you're not seeing any raised hands? No raised hands. All right. Okay. So seeing nobody has asked to move this item to the public hearing calendar, I will hereby approve the consent calendar. So both of these items are hereby approved. and we have no items for public hearing this morning so uh that concludes our planning directors hearing for june 10th 2026 and i thank you all for your attendance and if some of the applicants are here best with your projects