Planning Commission - Special Meeting

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Good evening, let's call to order the Planning Commission meeting of Tuesday, May 26th at 7 p.m. The city does not tolerate disruptive behavior in our meetings. Sunnyvale prides itself on the rich diversity of our residents, and we are committed to creating a culture of belonging where members of our diverse community feel included, safe, and respected. This Planning Commission meeting is considered a limited public forum, which means the commission can regulate the time, place, and manner of speech. Speaker comments must be limited to the agenda item being considered by the commission for consent, calendar, or public hearing items. Speaker comments during oral communications must be limited to matters within the Commission's authority, which is generally referred to as within the Commission's subject matter jurisdiction. If a speaker's comments are not related to an agenda item, the presiding officer will rule the speaker as out of order. A speaker will not be ruled out of order because of a disagreement with the content of their speech. If a speaker's comments are not related to an agenda item, the presiding officer will rule the speaker out of order. Location and online meeting details are available on the Planning Commission agenda. Use the Show Captions button to view captions on Zoom. Comments on matters not on the agenda must be submitted prior to the time I call the item for oral communications. Comments on agenda items must be submitted prior to the time I close the public hearing on the agenda item. Speakers are requested to keep their comments to the time period set for public comments for the agenda item, which will be strictly enforced. Guidelines are posted on the city's website and on the Planning Commission meeting agenda. Please join me in a salute to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic, which it stands, for all. Recording officer, may we please have the roll call?

Commissioner Segura? Present. Commissioner Davis?

Present.

Commissioner Fagoni?

Present.

Vice Chair Shukla?

Present.

Commissioner Pine? Present. Chair Glacius?

Present.

Commissioner Cerrone?

Present.

We have seven commissioners present.

Thank you. This brings us to oral communications. This is the public's opportunity to address the commission on topics not listed on tonight's agenda. This section is limited to 15 minutes and may be extended or continued after the public hearings general business section of the meeting. Individuals may only speak once during oral communications. This planning commission meeting is limited public forum and the commission can regulate the time, place and manner of speech. Speaker's comments during oral communications must be limited to matters within the commission's authority. Again, that's the commission subject matter jurisdiction. If a speaker's comments are outside the commission's subject matter jurisdiction, the presiding officer will rule the speaker as out of order. This allows the commission to conduct its business in a reasonably efficient manner and protects the rights of other speakers. A speaker will not be ruled out of order because of a disagreement with the content of their speech. Please submit a speaker card to the recording officer, raise your digital hand now, or dial star nine on a telephone to indicate that you wish to speak. I will call on members of the public participating in person first, followed by remote participants. Speakers will have three minutes, so we'll get started. First, we have William Norman. Is this working?

Perfect. This is regarding a taco truck, Tacos El Noah Noah, located at 208 South Oaks Fair Avenue, Sunnyvale, California, 94086. It is being required to be moved due to a parking spot limit constraint. I would say the truck has been there for five plus years, has received multiple awards from the city, and the bar knit to it, Burt's Sports Bar, does not offer food and they even have deals between the two of them where they move between them. So it's kind of like it's a very well-achieved area and is now being asked to relocate out of the area for, again, a parking spot request that, again, it's been there five years. I would very much request that that be appealed.

Thank you very much. All right, would anyone else like to speak on our oral communications before we hear from remote speakers? All right, seeing none. Because of the nature of remote communications, speakers who are ruled out of order will not be given another chance to speak on this item. Therefore, speakers are warned to limit their comments to subjects that fall within the commission's authority to decide or take action. Recording officer, do we have any remote participants wishing to speak on oral communications?

We do not, Chair.

All right, thanks so much. I will go ahead and close oral communications, which brings us to our consent calendar. I'll go ahead and open public comment on consent calendar items. Please submit a speaker card to the recording officer. Raise your digital hand now or dial star nine on your telephone to indicate you wish to speak. I'll call members of the public participating in person first, followed by remote participants. Speakers will have three minutes to speak. Would anyone like to speak on consent calendar items before we hear from remote participants? Seeing none, recording officer, do we have any remote participants wishing to speak on this item?

No, we do not.

Thank you. I will go ahead and close public comment, and I will ask for a motion from my colleagues. Commissioner Pine. Thank you, Chair. I move the consent calendar is submitted. Thank you, Commissioner Pine. Commissioner Davis.

I second the motion.

Thank you, Commissioner Davis. Recording officer, please conduct a vote.

Our motion passes with six yeses and Commissioner Fagoni abstaining.

Thank you. All right, this brings us, we have two items for general business tonight. Our first item is 26-0538. It is a request for continuance to July 13th, 2026 for proposed project, a special development permit, the construction of a four unit townhouse project and associated site improvements and maintain the existing single family home, historic reference tentative map, it's at 434 Crescent Avenue. So for this evening, since the request is about for our continuance, the discussion is going to be exclusively for that. Is there a staff report?

Sorry, no staff report. Just the request is to July 13th, 2026 for the applicant.

Great. Thank you so much. So first we'll open up for questions for commissioners. Commissioner Pyle.

Thank you, Chair. Just briefly, I was a little confused why there's a second extension to be considered for the Heritage Preservation Commission to consider us on July 1st rather than on June 3rd.

We didn't have a quorum the first time it went to Heritage Preservation Commission.

Right. I understood that, but it said it was continued to the meeting on June 3rd. So I'm a little confused why they're not planning to hear it on June 3rd.

Uh, actually I'm not sure on that. I just know that's the date we ended up picking. It was because of the applicant or, um, they might've not been having a meeting that month.

Okay. Well, it doesn't, it doesn't really matter for us. Just, I, I figured I might as, I figured I might as well ask. We don't have a particularly heavy agenda tonight. So thank you.

All right, thank you, Commissioner Pine. Seeing no other commissioner hands. At this point, I will go ahead and open this for the public hearing of this item. Please submit a speaker card to the recording officer. Raise your digital hand now or dial star nine on the telephone to indicate that you wish to speak. I will call members of the public participating in person first, followed by remote participants, and you'll have three minutes to speak. As a reminder, this is your comments are only for the request of the continuance, not the project itself. Would anyone like to speak before we move to remote speakers? All right, seeing none, remote speakers are warranted to limit their comments. The agenda item being considered. Recording officer, do we have any remote participants wishing to speak on this item?

No, we did not, Chair.

Great, thank you so much. I'll go ahead and close public hearing on this item, and I will seek a motion or discussion with my colleagues. Commissioner Pyle.

Thank you, Chair. I move staff recommendation to continue the public hearing to date certain Monday, July 13th, 2026. Thank you, Commissioner Pine. Commissioner Segura.

I second that.

Thank you, Commissioner Segura. Commissioner Pine, to your motion. Yeah, we can't act on this before the Heritage Preservation Commission acts, so I don't think there's any other reasonable alternative.

Thank you, Commissioner Pine. And Commissioner Segura, to your second.

Same thing. I do think we should give them the time to present it to us in the future.

All right. Thank you, Commissioner Segura. Seeing no other commissioner hands, Recording officer, please connect the vote.

The motion passes with seven yeses.

All right. Thank you so much. Then what is the next steps for this project?

It'll go to the Heritage Preservation Commission first and then come back to the Planning Commission on July 13th.

All right, thank you so much. That brings us to our next item. That is item 26-0508. It's a report to the board commission. It's review planning commission budget and fees for fiscal year 2026, 2027. Is there a staff report?

I guess just a verbal staff report for you. The Sunnyvale budget process alternates each year between operating budget and capital budget. This year's focused on the operating budget. The previous operating budget for fiscal year 2025-26 was reflective of the uncertainty around the federal funding sources. The general fund is projected to be balanced at both 10 and 20 years. The highlights from the city budget include an operating budget for all funds for about... $717.7 million. About $425 million is city operations. About $200 million is project and equipment expenditures. And about $79 million is in other expenditures. And we'll have to dip into the reserves for about $69 million. And again, funding sources include general taxes and revenues, fees supported by enterprise funds, like water, wastewater service, and also the restricted special revenue funds. That's like a housing, park dedication, gas tax, and other grants. CDD is organized into four programs, building safety, planning, housing, community development block grant, and department management. The planning program mostly affects planning commission's work. The planning program oversees policy planning and zoning reviews to improve the quality of life in the city through comprehensive and effective policy planning. These activities include preparing and updating the city's general plan and other specific plans, reviewing and processing development applications, working on city council policy projects, or priority projects, new term, and then new legislation affecting the city's zoning authority. This last fiscal year was pretty busy. Things we were working on include the Central Arches Specific Plan, which is the master plan for applied materials. We have an update to the Perry Park Specific Plan to add about 1,000 units and 1.2 million square feet of office floor area. And then the Downtown Specific Plan, we'll have an update coming to you to add about 200,000 square feet of office on the north side of Sub Block 6, and they will also maintain the 329 units on the southern portion over by the theater and Whole Foods. City Council priority projects that were done in this last year include the Village Center Master Plan. We have the Low Density Objective Design Standards. We'll have to come up with a shorter acronym for that one, which will be going to City Council on June 2nd. And then also we did the village center retail incentive program. And that was for a couple of the village centers to encourage them to provide more commercial space in lieu of providing BMR units. And then other general plan housing element and land use and transportation element, things that we've worked on, the accessory dwelling toolkit. The toolkit is to encourage ADU construction. We'd have a webpage that went live in January. And we're also working on the housing plan review permit. Hopefully that'll come summer 2027, I believe. And an amendment to the heritage preservation ordinance to exclude Murphy Station Heritage Park, which you guys reviewed that not too long ago. And other general plan and housing element programs that we're working on is a review of the park dedication fees. That means they'll be looking at breaking it down by square footage, as opposed to number of bedrooms. And I'm also looking at the residential parking standards that'll be coming up. And then significant approved planning projects. We did over about 294,000 office square footage out in Moffett Park and about 575 units citywide. And then upcoming projects for the Planning Commission review include about 335 units so far and about 18,000 square feet of commercial space. That includes one new project out in Moffett Park on Bordeaux, which you'll be seeing that in a few weeks. Lawrence Station continues to build out, and there's always interest in El Camino for various shopping centers and looking at the other mixed-use areas. Planning staffing includes a new permit technician position that we added. We did closed promotional senior planner promotions for two of our associates. We promoted one of the permit techs to an assistant planner. We hired a new associate planner and hired a new assistant director, Matt. And backfilling of existing positions will probably end up being needed pretty soon. And overall, the citywide staffing includes about 991 full-time employees. And there's about 16 new positions that are proposed in various departments. For the planning commissioners, we did add funding to allow all the planning commissioners to attend the Planning Commissioners Academy. So everybody can go, instead of kind of rotating through. And then with the budget, there were two budget supplements. One supplement was for funding council priority projects. And budget supplement two was potential cost savings to offset city council additions that they wanted to do. So if they had any additional projects, they could pick something off supplement two to offset that. And what staff is recommending that the planning commission do is provide comments to the City Council or make a formal recommendation to the City Council on the recommended fiscal year budget for the planning program. And that concludes staff's presentation.

Thanks so much. To kick off with Commissioner questions, we've got Commissioner Segura.

I did not raise my hand, sorry.

No. OK. Then we have Commissioner Davis.

Yeah, so we're going to take about $69 million out of reserves. I didn't see anywhere in the budget. Do we have an estimate what that's going to leave the reserve balance as? I don't know off the top of my head.

OK.

Yeah, it's a little bit disconcerting, right? It's a big number. And I think we've done that a number of years in a row now. So I just worry about where the balance is. I'll go ahead and give some comments. I did a little pet thing of mine with the UUT, the utility use tax, because I would love to... force our broadband providers to actually do a reasonable developed country job instead of giving us, you know, 20-year-old technology, especially when we develop it all here. So I noticed the UUT is rapidly declining. I know there's not much we can do about that. However, I know a lot of jurisdictions, they regularly audit, especially the video providers and so on. And they my understanding is that always almost always brings in more revenue. So doing an audit every three or four years would probably just be a good practice to bring in, you know, another million or two dollars. Right. I know that. especially on the video side, they'll try to play the games where they allocate all the revenue to things that are not taxable instead of the things that are taxable. But that's a, you know, that's a judgment call that can be challenged easily. So those are the, yeah, those were my two things. Like what's the reserve balance going to look like? And then the URT. Otherwise, it seems like everything ticks and ties. I did get a CPA at one point, so it looks good to me. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Davis. Next, we have Commissioner Cerrone.

Thank you, Chair. So, I did watch the budget workshop. It's always a good time, so... Um, and, uh, and I thought it was very informative as a general comment. Overall, the city continues to be very well, uh, run it's physically, fiscally responsible with long-term planning. Um, uh, This is, uh, so this is my main comment. Uh, uh, I do have some areas I'd like to highlight. For example, uh, I'm glad to see staff increasing as was mentioned. As the city manager pointed out, at the workshop, for a long time, headcount was flat as the population grew, city population grew, and the complexities of governing due to technology changes and hundreds of state laws passed with the express purpose of interfering with local government increased. I was always amazed for years just watching that headcount stay flat. So, uh, too many times I think critical needs such as the, uh, housing strategy, for example, were put on hold for years due to staff departures or staff shortages. Um, Uh, and, uh, uh, uh, other examples were like the village center master plan, uh, which we've did approve, uh, uh, last year and the homelessness strategy, which is down in progress. So, um, and even now we're seeing, I think we're seeing impacts from chip Taylor retiring as we, uh, Some things are put on hold or delayed. Again, I'm glad to see we're adding staff because it's badly needed. Staff does an amazing job, but they're not miracle workers. They need enough people to do the work. Another subject, funding for the homeless programs has been increased, which is good, to $43 million over 20 years. But that average is about 2 million per year. I'm concerned this will not be enough, especially given the latest proposal to drop safe parking programs in favor of tiny homes or other transitional housing solutions, which we then have to build, which are going to be more expensive. I'm not saying it's not the right thing to do, but I think it will cost more than that. as every study shows, homelessness prevention, giving people rental assistance or help with car repairs or medical expenses, whatever, to keep them from becoming homeless is way cheaper than trying to deal with someone after they become homeless. And I hope we are moving more in that direction. It's very effective and it saves money. On the... I'm glad to see that the council priority for supporting neighborhood serving retail in Sunnyvale was above the line, although it's $25,000 one time for one year. I'm not sure what... you know, what's going to result from that. But at least something is moving ahead. And related to retail, the section on retails did not really cover this, but Sunnyvale continues to rank very low in per capita sales tax revenues compared to neighboring cities. It's our second highest source of revenue. And it's expected to continue to decline. For example, Santa Clara and Palo Alto are practically twice or more than twice per capita retail revenues, Cupertino as well. And so we might want to consider spending some money money to support local retail because we get it back in revenues. And this doesn't even include the... vehicle miles traveled because obviously our residents are spending their money having to drive to other cities in order to shop. Um, so we're, uh, you know, that's also a burden on the environment. So, um, I would definitely like to see something, uh, like San Jose has a storefront, uh, improvement program. I think they have a half a million dollars for that. I mean, there's ways to support local retail rather than just watching it disappear project by project. Let's see. There was a reference to looking into housing on the south side of Peary Park. I assume that's that project at the just north of the tracks west of Matilda, which There aren't very many places at Perry Park where you can put housing because of the airport, Moffett Field. I remember this coming to Planning Commission a few years ago, and the developer said at that time that they'd been talking to the city about this for 10 years. So this is a... a long-awaited development, and it seems like a site next to transit where very high density would be possible. So I hope we can see something move ahead there. And I'm very excited about the possibility of housing projects in Moffett Park, and hopefully there'll be higher-density projects like the one we've seen, not just townhomes. Yeah. The one we've seen is, I think, eight stories. And finally, I don't know when we'll have another opportunity to comment on it, but the process formerly known as study issues, I feel like the process is kind of broken now. And I would recommend that this commission not spend one minute on the council priorities this year because a recommendation by a commission is... really not worth anything in this process. And we're all free to go to our council members and advocate for something, which is really what the process is now. My concern is that selecting these issues or priorities should be a funnel process, like you do most anything else, funnel process, starting with a lot of ideas coming from different sources and filtering them down to a more reasonable number. uh, we've eliminated, eliminated that part of the process. So just as an example, when I buy a car, I investigate a lot of models based on certain criteria. And, uh, by evaluating the features, the cost, et cetera, I narrow it down and then pick a few to test drive and then make a decision. Now I don't consider the time evaluating alternatives that I don't buy to be a waste of time. Um, You could say, well, why didn't I just go directly to the final choice? I would have saved some time. But I determined the final choice by looking at the alternatives. So the consultant analysis concluded that any time spent looking at potential study issues that were not ultimately selected either by priorities or budget concluded that's a waste of time. Now, I appreciate the staff was spending too much time on these evaluations, but there are ways to reduce that time, especially using AI tools. And I'm sure you can eliminate a lot of them. They're duplicative or for various reasons. You don't have to do a full-blown analysis on everything. But saying, well, we're going to limit it just to the final answer really eliminates the public and the commissions from the process. And I think... need to lose a lot of potentially good ideas that are important to the community. So that's all I have, but I would certainly recommend that we approve the budget.

Thank you, Commissioner Cerrone. Next we have Commissioner Pine.

Thank you. Just to piggyback immediately on that, I also think it's a problem that we're getting this subsequent to the budget workshop because it's within our purview to recommend that the City Council take action on on their on well, I think the way it's specifically agenda is to within anything in in budget supplements one or two that's relevant to the planning program so like we could, in theory, recommend that. Like. So in theory, we could recommend that the cost of OCM 2026-1 be changed or even eliminated entirely. I'm obviously not going to... I obviously wouldn't support dropping OCM 2026-01, given that I've been one of the people screaming for its need. But I think from a procedural perspective, it bought... I recognize that on a procedural posture, the budget workshop is not final action. Theoretically, the city council could come back in the budget hearing, in the formal budget hearing and in the formal adoption and say, oh, we voted incorrectly during the budget workshop. We have changed our mind. We are now going to revert this. It is something that could technically happen, and therefore we are still fulfilling our mandated, and so they are still technically acting on the recommendation. However, I think we should be practical, and I don't think we should be having – we should be in the position of, well, the commission could be making a recommendation for the city council to reverse itself. We should be in the position of making recommendations before the city council has taken action, and so the city council can act based on our recommendation, not be in the situation where we could say – your city council you were wrong at the budget workshop please fix it while you still have time uh so i and i will note that i did raise this concern back in back earlier when the new process was being adopted so i just i'm just reiterating this i think the Given the changes to the process, this is really the only major opportunity commissions have to weigh in on those projects. And I think doing it essentially post facto is not a good process. That being said, I'm broadly happy with what council did approve at the budget workshop with respect to budget supplements one or two. So I would not personally... So unless somebody makes a really thrilling argument during public comment, I personally would not be inclined to support a recommendation for council to reverse itself. I'm just saying I... I think the process is important here. Other than that, I'd also echo what Commissioner Cerrone said about how great it is to actually see increases in planning departments and CDD staff. We have seen a lot of budgets where it's just flattened. I know one of the frustrations we often have is, okay, why hasn't this thing come back yet? having extra staff and increased staff, I think that goes along, that will go a good way towards making things happen faster, which is good for everybody. The other thing, and this is an actual question is, It's correct in the budget, but in the staff report, it refers to the, on this item, it refers to the Perry Park specific plan rather than the Peary Park specific plan. Do we have to do anything about that since it's just the staff report?

No.

Okay. Yeah, I didn't think so, but because I cross-checked the budget and it's correct there, but just figured I'd check. That's all I had.

Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Pine. Seeing no other commissioner hands, I had just a couple questions and comments. First question was, you talked about the fact that the ADU toolkit launched in January. I'm curious, have you seen any adoption of it? Are there any indicators that it's working as you intended or better at worse?

You know, I'm not sure yet. I probably can just get back to the commission and let you guys know how it's doing and how many hits it's getting.

Okay. Next, in the... In the recommended budget volume one on page 248, it talked about the performance indicators for the planning department. And from target to actuals for all the performance indicators, the department didn't achieve any of the indicator, the targets. I'm curious, is it your take then with the expansion of the planning department's staff? Is that going to be closing that gap? Is that the intention?

Yeah, staffing will definitely help a lot. We've also had just some issues with some of the reporting that's occurring with the new permitting system. So we've been kind of working out some of the reports with that. But definitely staffing will help.

Okay, so just a direct question. So are these numbers then, that white size estimate, for 2025-26 versus actual?

Actually, what was the page again?

It's page 249. 249, all right.

Actually These ones. These ones are fine. It's some of the other ones I'm a different thing that was going on. But these ones we do pretty much quarterly with either surveys or discounting the permits and stuff that we do online. So these ones would be accurate.

Okay. So, and then it's your assessment that with the addition of, of staff, that those numbers would also continue to increase. Yes. Okay. That makes sense to me. And then the last question I had was what, Regarding the budget supplement one for OCM 2026-18, I'm just curious what the reasoning behind staff are not recommending it, given its formal analysis for creation of a food co-op state-sponsored market commission commissary, given that's the only thing that doesn't cost any money.

I'm sorry, what page were you on?

So it's Supplement 1. It's Budget Supplement 1, Table 1. It's Council Priority Project. It's the one about the formal analysis for creation of food co-op.

You know, I'm not sure exactly why that wasn't right, to be honest.

Okay. Yeah. And my only reason is because it's the only thing that doesn't have any costs associated with it. For the other ones, is the staffing cost built into the estimate as well?

Yes.

Okay. So I guess then just for the record, I get the question would be, it seems like there would almost need to be a justification for it to not, if there is no cost and it says there's general, there's state grants as well for that. would be curious why that wouldn't be something we'd want to pursue. So. Okay. That's the extent of my questions. Vice Chair Shukla.

Thank you, Chair. Yeah, I think it's a really good job the staff has done for the budget and council. But I have the same question as my Commissioner Cerrone said about the retail incentive program and the budgeting for that is amount seems very, very low. And it has been like, I mean, since from through our budget, process. We have faced that. It's a big issue for certain projects. And I think, I don't know, like I'm just reiterating what he said, that if we can increase the budget for that. And so I don't know. I'm just saying it. If they read the meetings and maybe I will also speak in their next meeting about this item. So that's what I just want to say. And then second one was the drone surveillance. I was surprised about that. So was it, do we have that or do we use that? The technology for that?

Yeah, I'm not sure, Commissioner Shukla.

Because I read that there was a budgeted drone surveillance, some budget, and I think it's for the land. I'm not sure whether it's a specific area. They are talking about where the Bay Creek or something, but I just was curious about it. Okay, but that's it.

All right. Thank you, Vice Chair Shukla. Next, we have Commissioner Fagoni.

Sorry, I just had a question on the streamlining, the permitting process. Is that something that the, is there something measurable on that? So does the city have like gaps or issues with that that they're trying to close? Or is it just a general redo of the whole thing? Because it's maybe getting aged out with things. And also I'm curious based on this, are, the various cities connected together to try to make their permitting processes similar. So when residents, say someone's in Cupertino or Santa Clara, they're trying to work with Sunnyvale, it's a very similar process. Is there any consortium of the different cities trying to coordinate those processes together to actually save costs too? I'm just kind of a little curious about that. You just tell a little more about it, which, you know, is it something measurable? I hope it's measurable, but are there some metrics out there that are driving this?

I think initially what the issue stemmed from was was some business owners were concerned about the permitting process taking too long. And for a small business, that can really affect their bottom line if they're stuck in building permit or going through the planning process. I think with the additional staff, and then we're also looking at different ways to do permit streamlining items, such as... We actually are, I think we'll be adopting a new fee. So we'll charge a flat rate and planning for a plan check. And that way the plans will automatically get routed for review. Currently they have to wait in a queue until they make the full payment for the fees. So at least this way we'll get them going. So that'll be one way that we can help move things along. But as far as working with other cities, the main thing that we've had, I think, would be the ADU toolkit would be the main thing that we've done countywide through what we call the planning collaborative. They're a group that's been working for the county. They also did stuff up in Sonoma. They worked with a bunch of cities up there for their ADU toolkits.

Okay, thanks. All right, thank you commissioner for any all right seeing no other commissioner hands at this time I will go ahead and open the public hearing on the specific item please submit a speaker card to the recording officer raise your digital hand now or dial star 9 on a telephone to indicate the wish to speak. I will call members of the public participating in person first followed by remote participants in secret speakers will have 3 minutes to speak. What I would like to speak on side before we hear from remote speakers. All right, seeing none, remote speakers are warned to limit their comments to the agenda item being considered. Recording officer, do we have any remote participants wishing to speak on this item?

We do not, Chair.

All right, thank you so much. I will go ahead and close the public hearing for this item. And I will ask for a motion or discussion with my colleague. And in this particular instance, as I understand it, we don't necessarily have to submit a motion. Our comments are submitted regardless. But is there, well, I'll just leave it up to the commission to see if any of the commissioners have something they'd like to discuss or make a motion.

uh commissioner pipe thank you you know i actually i'm just going to make this motion on the grounds of it's her on the grounds of reiterating the commission's right of recommendation budget i move that the commission recommend uh recommend uh the recommend funding for budget supplement one item ocm 2026-0-1 I recognize council already did this in the budget workshop, but I think, but I want to stay on principle. The commission has a right to make this recommendation.

Thank you, commissioner pine. Commissioner Davis.

I second the motion.

All right. Thank you, Commissioner Davis. Commissioner Pine, to your motion. Yeah, thank you. I just think it's something that's really important. Well, A, I think the actual item is really important. I don't think I have to go into too much detail into why it's really important. We've discussed this at length in other meetings. Procedurally speaking, I know, like, again, this has already happened in the budget supplement, in the budget workshop, but I think it's important to reiterate that the commission has a under the charter and under council policies has a role in over has a role in budget oversight and so i want to reiterate that and i want to reiterate that right but again to the merits again we need we need to keep maintaining to keep our retail base and we've just and i and that is the reason it's right at the top of that budget supplement and it needs to happen thank you

All right. Thank you, Commissioner Pine and Commissioner Davis. To your second.

Yes, I agree with Commissioner Pines' reasoning. It's our role to look through this and make a recommendation. So it's something that we support. Though it looks like it's going to breeze through, we should go ahead and make a motion and come and officially support it. So that's why I'm supporting the motion. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Commissioner Davis.

All right. Seeing no other commissioner hands at this point, recording officer, please connect to vote.

Motion passes with seven yeses.

Thank you very much. And planning officer, what's next for this?

The public hearing will be on June 2nd.

All right. Thank you so much. That brings us to non-agenda items and comments. Next portion of the agenda is for oral reports, announcements by commissioners and staff to share. Do any commissioners have any non-agenda items or comments?

Commissioner Fagoni.

I don't know if this is the right place to bring this up, but I just wanted to ask the city, and I'm sorry I haven't talked to my fellow commissioners on this in detail, but I wanted to propose in the future if we could get someone from the city to review how the outreach process works in the community, especially around when there's new proposals for buildings or development. And this is coming from the feedback that I've seen witnessing with citizens coming or residents coming in and sharing their feedback with this committee. Then some of the outreach that I've done that some of the residents feel like they're not getting the information in time. The feedback they're giving is not being heard. So I would request that we could have some type of review of how that process works so that this committee understands it. And then in the future, is the city looking at that to see is it addressing the needs of the community? Because I just want to make sure going forward that our community understands when they can provide feedback what that feedback will do, what the expectations are around it. Because some of the times when they do get the feedback, it's too late in the process, they can't do much. So I just wanna make sure that people understand that if there's an earlier way that they can get that information to the city so that it's more meaningful, that's documented or well, they can find that information online or whatever, And I just want to make sure it's quality feedback, too, that how does the city assess it if you're only getting three people attending a feedback session? Is that the same as getting 15 or 20 people? So and then would the city decide, hey, maybe we need to redo it again and get more? And then how do you measure that feedback to make sure it's good quality feedback? so that we don't have residents coming into the planet. They're welcome to come here, of course, but we want them to come here that they can feel that their voice is being heard and that it can be meaningful, right? That, you know, we have to tell them, hey, you know, the process is kind of moving along. Your feedback is a little bit late in the process. So I'm just trying to see how we can address that, make that better going forward, maybe review how other cities do it, maybe leverage some of that, or maybe what we're doing is as good as it can be. I don't know. But I just thought it'd be nice to have a review of that at some point in the future. So thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Figoni. Next, we have Commissioner Pine.

Thank you. Yeah. Now, two things. First of all, piggybacking off of what Commissioner Fagoni said, I think it's, I just think that if we, there's some way we could stress that, like when there's a rezoning or a general plan amendment coming through, like that is, that is when you submit your feedback. Like just if there's any way we can stress this, I know people don't always read their mailers and frankly, people should be reading their mailers. And I, I'm a little unsympathetic to when I hear we didn't read our official mailer for the city. Do you not read your official mailers from the county? What if you get jury duty? But like the, but like, I, I think it would, I do think it would be, if there's any education we can do, that's, you need to give feedback when there's a rezoning if you give feedback after the rezoning when it's a project phase it's probably too late if there's any way we could stress that it would be i think it would be helpful uh the second thing is that we had a comment earlier from a member of the public about a parking but about a parking enforcement action that strikes me as being essentially operational but like could staff I guess provide the member of the public with like what staff, you know, point person to possibly get and reach out to and talk with.

Sure. I can give them my card. Okay, cool. Thank you.

All right, thank you, Commissioner Pyne. Seeing no other commissioner hands, interestingly, you've set me up quite well. I have a public announcement that I was actually supposed to make earlier, but better late than never. It's about community equity assessment and community forums. The city launched a community equity assessment to learn about residents' experiences with city programs and services. Your feedback will help improve access, remove barriers, and create welcoming services for everyone. Share your experiences and feedback at one of our upcoming forums. Light refreshments will be provided. Childcare is available for potty-trained children ages four plus. Advanced registration is required for childcare. The forum schedule is Saturday, June 6th from 2.30 to 4 p.m. at the Sunnyvale Library Program Room. It's open to all residents. Language interpretation is available upon request. Please notify us 48 hours in advance of the meeting by calling 408-730-7950. For more information and to register for childcare, which by itself should be enough, visit sunnyvale.ca.gov and search community equity assessment or contact 408-730-7950. So the city does want that engagement and that feedback. Commissioner Davis?

Yeah, just following up, adding on to the topic, we've got a fair amount of legislative work that's going to come before us, right? So I would encourage staff and us as commissioners to actively think about how this is going to look to the public as they engage with it, right? If you're looking to, I think the most common thing that we'll see is if you're looking to remodel your home or for community development, some kind of property development or something, The codes are pretty dense. They're pretty dense and they intimidate a lot of people. And frankly, the public feels outgunned when they come here and there are developers who are very familiar with the codes, the ins and outs of them and state housing law. So as accessible to the general public, we can make them accessible. I think it'll make us all happier. It'll make these hearings much smoother. It'll make for the planners working with the public, it'll make their life easier. It's just goodness all around. So it's definitely worth the effort, I think. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Davis.

Commissioner Cerrone. Question for staff. Do I understand correctly the city is adding a person whose responsibility is to look at the outreach process?

That I'm not sure. I can get back to you on that. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Czerny. All right. That brings us to staff. Flying Officer, do you have any non-agenda items or comments for us?

Just on June 2nd, the City Council will hear and introduce an ordinance to amend Section 1016-120, which is the use of streets or public parking facilities. And there will also be the lower density residential objective design standards.

That's it. All right, thank you so much. That brings us to adjournment. This meeting is adjourned at 7.50 p.m., and I want to thank everyone for participation tonight.