CC 3-19-19 Study Session Item #1 Planning Commission Prioritization Memo
At the regularly scheduled Planning Commission meeting on February 26, 2019, the
Commission discussed the upcoming fiscal year 2019-2020 work program. The
Commission approved a motion to recommend for the consideration of the City
Council additional projects to be included in the upcoming fiscal year work program.
Subsequently, the Commission conducted a publically noticed special meeting on
March 18, 2019 to prioritize and consolidate the list as indicated below. Please note that
the ranking system resulted in a tie for number six.
1. Study session on CASA, new legislations, and strategies that the City can
implement, and working with neighboring cities for education of the topics, to
understand the impacts of housing developments and ratios and legal
requirements and develop potential course of action.
2. Comparative studies that compares standards for mixed use developments and
high density residential guidelines with other cities. Specifically, on parkland,
green space, and parking space requirements.
3. Compensation policies for proposed ADUs, including guidelines for new
construction and parking lots on electric charging ports; Zero-Net Energy
Incentives that includes the review of policies and encourage electrification,
creation of informational system and opportunities in the way that energy is
being used, and consider the creation of an ad hoc committee that includes
sustainability commission and planning commission to evaluate home energy
and Solar standards.
4. Reevaluate and clarify the need for increasing penalties for violations of
Conditions of Approvals and to evaluate application approval time limits. The
penalty should be the inability to build the project. Develop strategies to
encourage development especially when there are long project approvals periods
without development and set time limits if a project is not build within a set time
frame.
To: Timm Borden, Interim City Manager
From: Benjamin Fu, Interim Director of Community Development
Date: March 19, 2019
Re: Proposed Planning Commission Work Program FY 2019-20
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
CITY HALL
10300 TORRE AVENUE • CUPERTINO, CA 95014-3255
(408) 777-3308 • FAX (408) 777-3333
5. Informational session on items related to conservation as the 2020 solar
requirement on residential construction approaches.
6. General Plan clean up.
6. Parkland standards.
8. Add teacher housing, moderate income, tiny homes to the list of housing
diversity.
9. Municipal Code clean-up.
10. Study session to address misunderstanding on housing where there is excess of
office development within a project that is identified as a housing project, which
worsen the housing shortage. Develop some multiplier or math to calculate.
11. Heart of the City Specific Plan Review. Update sections such as transit corridors
in the city and other sections in the city.
12. Economic development commission/department. Discuss methods to deal with
loss of retail and possibly for the commission/department created by ordinance
and not resolution.
13. Review dark sky policy, bird safe design guidelines, and reevaluate street
lighting and other lighting that can benefit residential areas.
14. Study sessions on Vallco hearings and project status.
15. Neighborhood area input on objective standards. Different neighborhoods have
different features such as electric gates or cutouts for RVs.
16. More City sponsored internship programs – bachelor and master program
students on the topics of transportation, public policy, and education to work on
specific projects.
17. Fast track second-story construction and one-story addition. Reduce time it takes
to build your own home.
18. Study session restricting road diets. Road is shrinking and traffic is not flowing.