Planning Commission - workshop
The San Jose Planning Commission meeting on July 8, 2026, primarily focused on procedural matters and a public comment regarding a proposed development. The commission also approved a consent calendar and received an update on upcoming City Council land use items.
About this meeting
- Government Body
- Planning Commission
- Meeting Type
- Planning Commission
- Location
- San Jose, CA
- Meeting Date
- July 8, 2026
Transcript
60 sections
The procedure for this hearing is as follows.
After staff's presentation, applicants and or appellants may make up to a five-minute presentation. During the public comment period, the chair will call out names on the submitted speaker cards in the order received. As your name is called, line up in front of the microphone at the front of the chamber.
Generally, each speaker will be given up to two minutes for public testimony, and speakers using a translator will have up to four minutes. At the discretion of the chamber, the time allotted to each speaker may be will be changed depending on the number of the items of the agenda, number of speakers, and other factors.
Speakers using a translator will have double the time for learning.
After public testimony, the applicant and or opponent may make closing remarks for up to an additional five minutes.
Planning commissioners may ask questions of the speakers.
Response to commissioners' questions will not reduce the speaker's time allowed. The public hearing will then be closed, and the planning commission will take questions on the item.
We'll take action on the item. The Planning Commission may request staff to respond to the public testimony, ask staff questions, and discuss 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 in this public hearing or in writing or written correspondence delivered to the city at or prior to the public hearing.
The Planning Commission action on rezoning, prezoning, general plan amendments, and code amendments is only advisory to the City Council. The City Council will hold public hearings on these items.
Section 20.120.400 of the Municipal Code provides procedures for legal protests in the City Council or rezoning of prezonings.
The Planning Commission's actions on conditional use permits is appeal to the City Council in accordance with Section 20.100.220 of the Municipal Code.
Agendas of all staff reports for this meeting may be accessed on the City's website.
All right, I call this meeting to order.
And in order of the day, before we begin, I want to remind the planning commission members and members of the public to follow our code of conduct and meeting.
This includes commenting on the specific
Antes de comenzar, quiero recordarles a los miembros de la Comisión de Planificación y al público en general que deben seguir nuestro código de conducta en las reuniones. Esto incluye comentar únicamente sobre el punto específico del orden del día y dirigirse a todo el cuerpo legislativo. Los oradores públicos no entablarán conversaciones con los comisionados ni con el personal.
Orderly conduct in this meeting may result in removal from the meeting. This meeting of the Planning Commission will now come to order.
Public comments to the Planning Commission are not merchandise items. Please fill out a speaker card and give to the technician each member of the public may address the commission for up to two minutes. The commission cannot make any final action without being properly noticed, placed on an agenda in response to public comment.
The Planning Commission is limited to the following options. Responding to statements made or questions posed by members of the public, or requesting staff to report back on a matter in a subsequent meeting, or directing staff to place the item on a future agenda. Staff, do we have any public comment? Yes, we do.
Responder a declaraciones o preguntas formuladas por miembros del público. Solicitar al personal que informe sobre un asunto en una reunión posterior o indicar al personal que incluya el tema en una agenda futura. Personal, ¿tenemos algún comentario del público? Sí, lo hacemos.
Okay, great. Come forward, please.
Bien, ¿esto es para algún punto del orden del día o simplemente no está en el orden del día? Vale, genial. Acércate, por favor. ¿Puedes decir tu nombre y apellido? Tienes dos minutos. Sí. My name is Cheryl Lin and I represent the community and the human agenda, as well as some other organizations. Today I am here to talk to you about a development proposal for the site, which is PD25-013.
Calls for the...
Y esta es la propuesta de desarrollo para la manzana delimitada por la calle San Carlos, la calle San Salvador, la segunda calle y la primera calle, y la propuesta, la propuesta de desarrollo, la opción B en particular, requiere lo siguiente. La construcción de tres torres residenciales de gran altura, de entre 29 y 30 pisos. También contempla la construcción de un centro de datos, un centro de datos de enormes dimensiones. Este centro de datos tendrá ocho pisos de altura. Pero porque las historias lo son, los pisos son muy altos, el edificio será casi tan alto como el suelo. Los edificios de 30 pisos. El The energy consumption of the data center is 22 megawatts. So it's going to have 22 1 megawatt backup generators and it's going to have a cooling complex on the roof that will be able to dissipate those 22 megawatts of thermal power. In addition, it is totally inappropriate to locate this data center next to these residential towers, since the separation between the data center and the nearest tower is only 43 feet. There is noise, there is pollution. That is, when the generators are on, they are not on all the time.
Thank you, sir. Okay. Defer as we move through calendar, any item scheduled for hearing this evening? Any item scheduled for hearing this evening? Thank you. Defer as we move through calendar, any item scheduled for hearing this evening? Any item scheduled for hearing this evening? Thank you.
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Defer as we move through calendar, any item scheduled for hearing this evening? Thank you. Defer as we move through calendar, any item scheduled for hearing this evening? as they are considered to be routine and will be adopted by one motion.
If a member of the commission requests debate, separate vote or refusal on a particular item, that item may be removed from the consent calendar by the chair and considered separately.
The public may comment on the entire consent calendar and any item removed from consent by the chair.
This item will be considered by the chair.
Staff will provide an update on the consent calendar. If you wish to speak on one of these items individually, please come to the podium at this time. Are there any public speakers for this item?
Or any item on the consent calendar? Okay. Okay, motion to approve by Commissioner Oliverio, second by Commissioner Rosario, second by Commissioner Rosario. All right, I guess no other input. We good?
All right, let's take a vote then.
Bueno, supongo que no, no tengo más información. ¿Estamos bien? ¿Está bien? Entonces, hagamos una votación. Comenzando con el vicepresidente Young.
Commissioner... Sí. Notario.
Lo siento.
Arguello. Arguello.
Arguello. Sí.
My apologies. Commissioner Vandal. Commissioner Pickford.
Mis disculpas. Comisionado Bando. Comisionado Bickford. Sí.
Notario.
Cahill. Notario. Cassell. Sí. Comisionado Escobar. Sí. Notario. Núñez. Notario.
Poliverio. Sí. Notario.
Rosario. Sí.
Está bien. Entonces tenemos 123,456.
Siete ocho síes. Y a tres, no a dos. Yo no voté.
Solo hay 212. Oh, tienes razón. Lo siento. Tres, ausencia. El movimiento se transmite. Genial. Muy bien. Sí, esto es fácil. Esta vez arriba.
Está bien. Hoy no hay temas programados para audiencia pública.
Let's now move on to the City Council references. Good evening. Manira Sanghir, Sub-Director of Planning, Construction and Compliance of Regulations. There are no joint references, commissions or other bodies of the City Council. However, I can go directly to points 7 and 8, 7, well-being and well-being, and provide a report from the City Council. Therefore, the Council will be on recess in July. Sin embargo, su próxima reunión del 11 de agosto incluirá dos puntos sobre el uso del suelo, uno para una apelación de un proyecto de ocho unidades en Kurtner y Kotle, y que fue directamente al Consejo porque hay. an appeal was presented against environmental analysis and that same day the council will consider a re-signification that will allow the use of the industrial park to be changed to a combined industrial and commercial use to convert an office building into a church. Those are the two events scheduled for August 11, and August 18 will be the key appointment before the council, when the recommendation of the planning commission on the general plan for its annual review will be examined. Okay, great. Well, any study session or none at the moment, In what concerns the Commission's calendar, we predict that the next meeting, scheduled for July 22, will also be canceled. But we do have some topics prepared for the first meeting in August, so please reserve the date in your calendars. Now that the work group's process is over, we'll have a more regular schedule. So we'll continue with the two monthly meetings. That means there won't be a birthday cake for my birthday on the 22nd. All right. Are there any Commissioners' statements for public record? I understand.
All right. To be clear, my birthday is on the 25th. All right.
Is there any statement from the commissioners for the public, registration? All right, well, this is a wrap. It's getting easier and easier. All right, we're done with this.
Thank you. How much you got done in 27 minutes?
Geez, I can do it in 10. How much you got done in 27 minutes? Just, since with the pleasure to be out again. My God, I can do it in 10.
We'll be here after this, under 20 minutes or so.
Just delete the promise and we'll get out of here.
We like to ease you into things. Before you know it, it'll be the deep end. Yeah, I know.
Someone's going to have to talk about that data center one day. I think that went through already.
No, no, it hasn't. It's under review right now. So it went through early consideration before council to see if we should even process it. And council said, oh, look at it.
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