Public Hearings: 2003 Hearing Agendas
Planning Director's Hearing Agenda

Wednesday, February 25, 2004
(Recommendations as of February 20, 2004)
10:00 a.m.
City Council Chambers
Room 205
City Hall
801 North First Street
San Jose, California

Hearing Officers
Jean Hamilton, AICP, Principal Planner
Susan Walton, Principal
Planner
Plan Implementation
Division
Joseph Horwedel, Deputy Director
Stephen M. Haase, AICP
Director, Planning, Building and Code Enforcement

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Notice to
the Public
The procedure for this hearing is
as follows:
- Hearing Officer will identify the
project as described on the agenda.
- Staff Report.
- After the staff report, the
applicant and/or representative should make themselves known as their item comes up by
approaching the microphone and identifying themselves and stating their home address, or
just wave from the audience if you do not wish to speak..
- Public testimony, either for or
against the project. Please state your name and home address for the record.
- The Hearing Officer may ask
questions of the speaker.
- After the public testimony, the
applicant may make closing remarks.
- The public hearing will then be
closed and the Planning Director will take action on the item. The Planning Director
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 at this public hearing or in written correspondence delivered to the City at,
or prior to, the public hearing.
The Planning Director's action
on these agenda items is final when the permit is signed and mailed, unless the permit is
appealed. The Planning Director's actions are appealable in
accordance with the requirements of Title 20 0f the Municipal Zoning Code.
Note: If you have any
agenda changes, please contact Joe Babiasz. (joe.babiasz@sanjoseca.gov).
Order of Business
1. Deferrals
Any item scheduled for hearing this
evening for which deferral is being requested will be taken out of order to be heard first
on the matter of deferral. A list of Staff-recommended deferrals is available on the Press
Table. If you want to change any of the deferral dates recommended, or speak to the
question of deferring these or any other items, you should say so at this time. I will now
open the public hearing. The following items are proposed to be deferred.
The matter of deferrals is now closed.
2. Consent
- TR04-004. Tree Removal Permit
to remove one Monterey Pine Tree approximately 66 inches in circumference on a 0.12 gross
acre site in the R-1-8 Single-Family Residence Zoning District, located at 620 Blom Drive
. Council District 2. SNI: Edenvale/Great Oaks. CEQA: Exempt.
Recommend:
Approval.
- SP03-053. Special Use Permit
to construct a detached garage in an alternative tandem configuration to an existing
single-family detached residence on a 0.15 gross site in the R-1-8 Single-Family Residence
Zoning District, located at/on the north side of Fairview Avenue and approximately 173
feet westerly of Alberta Avenue (1055 FAIRVIEW AV) (Berner William J And Virginia M,
Owner). Council District 6. SNI: None. CEQA: Exempt.
Recommend: Approval.
The consent calendar is now closed.
3. Public Hearings
- SP04-002. Special Use Permit
to construct an 872 square foot accessory structure in addition to an existing 805 square
foot detached garage for an existing single family detached residence on a 0.29 gross acre
site in the R-1-8 Single-Family Residence Zoning District, located at/on the south side of
Randol Avenue approximately 200 feet northeasterly of Park Avenue (1354 RANDOL AV) (Samson
Janet L Et Al, Jason Samson, Owner). Council District 6. SNI: None. CEQA: Exempt.
Continued from 2/18/04.
Recommend: Approval.
- SP04-003. Special Use Permit
to construct a new single family residence with an alternative parking design (tandem
garage) on a 0.11 gross acre site in the R-2 Two-Family Residence Zoning District, located
on the north side of Schiele Avenue approximately 490 feet south of Stockton Avenue
(Cimolino David L And Alana M, Owner). Council District 6. SNI: None. CEQA: Exempt.
Deferred from 2/11/04.
Recommend: Approval.
- PDA97-021-02. Planned
Development Permit Amendment to construct a 1,000 square foot cabana (accessory
structure) behind an existing single-family detached residence on a 0.55 gross acre site
in the A(PD) Planned Development Zoning District, located at/on the northwest corner of
Beaumont Canyon Drive and Foxtail Court (5360 Beaumont Canyon Dr) (Schoene Lloyd R And
Marites I, Owner). Council District 8. SNI: None. CEQA: Exempt.
Recommend:
Approval.
- SP03-055. Special Use Permit
to legalize an existing 289 square foot accessory structure at an existing single-family
detached residence on a 0.12 gross acre site in the R-2 Two-Family Residence Zoning
District, located at/on the west side of North 15th Street approximately 200 feet
northerly of Jackson Street (617 N 15TH ST) (Allan S. Gleason Jr, Owner). Council District
3. SNI: 13th Street. CEQA: Exempt.
Recommend: Approval.
- SF03-032. Single Family House
Permit to construct one 2,714 square-foot 2-story single family detached residence on
a 0.13 gross acre site in the R-1-8 Single-Family Residence Zoning District, located at/on
the east side of Plaza Drive approximately 400 feet northerly of Coe Avenue (APN:
264-52-097) (Charles R.De Rose, Owner/Developer). Council District 6. SNI: None. CEQA:
Exempt. Continued from 1/28/04, 2/11/04 and 2/18/04.
Recommend: Approval.
- PDA84-061-02. Planned
Development Permit Amendment to allow modification of the design of a previously
approved, approximately 1,168 square foot accessory structure, on an existing 0.46 gross
acre single-family lot. in the A(PD) Planned Development Zoning District, located at/on
the East side of Lupton Avenue approximately 420 feet northerly of Glenwood Avenue (1500
LUPTON AV) (Fair Jacob N And Annetta S Trustee, Owner). Council District 6. SNI: None.
CEQA: Exempt.
Recommend: Approval.
This concludes the Planning Director's Hearing for February 25, 2004.