Public Hearings: 2004 Hearing Agendas

Planning Director's Hearing Agenda

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

(Recommendations as of May 14, 2004)

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

1. PDA91-006-68. Planned Development Permit Amendment to construct a single-family residence 7,312 square feet on a 1.65 gross acre site in the A(PD) Planned Development Zoning District, located at/on the south side of Glenview Drive approximately 230 feet east of Eagle Valley Court (7312 GLENVIEW DR) (Khandwalla Manoj V and Chitra M Trustee, Owner). Council District 10. SNI: None. CEQA: EIR Resolution No. 59924, File No. PD91-006.

   Recommend: Approval.

2. TR04-021. Tree Removal Permit to remove four ordinance size trees 72-129 inches in circumference on a 0.11 gross acre site in the R-1-8 Single-Family Residence Zoning District, located at/on the 1041 Leona Court (1041 LEONA CT). Council District 6. SNI: None. CEQA: Exemption.

   Recommend: Approval.

The consent calendar is now closed.

3. Public Hearings

1. TR04-024. Tree Removal Permit to remove three Giant Sequoia trees 56, 66, and 76 inches in circumference on a 0.25 gross acre site in the R-1-8 Single-Family Residence Zoning District, located at 645 South 16th Street (Norberg John and Huff Georgie K, Owner). Council District 3. SNI: University. CEQA: Exempt.

   Recommend: Denial.

2. PD04-011. Planned Development Permit to allow up to 86 multi-family attached residential units on a 1.9-acre site in the A(PD) Planned Development Zoning District, located on the southeast corner of Adeline Avenue and Grassina Street (KB Home Tuscany Hills block 7). KB Home Southbay Inc., owner/developer. Council District: 7. S.N.I.: None. C.E.Q.A.: Environmental Impact Report. Deferred from 5/19/04.

   Recommend: Approval.

3. SP99-003. Special Use Permit for the conversion of a gasoline station to an auto detailing operation on a 0.11 gross acre site located in the LI Light Industrial Zoning District, on the southwest corner of Stockton Avenue and Cinnabar Street (395 STOCKTON AV) (381 Stockton LLC Mr John Davis, Owner). Council District 06. SNI: None. CEQA: Incomplete.

   Recommend: Approval.

4. V04-002. Sign Variance Permit to allow (2) two attached signs higher than the finished floor elevation of the fourth floor of an office building on a 1.5 gross acre site in the A(PD) Planned Development Zoning District, located at/on the southeast corner of South Bascom and Moorpark Avenue (620 S BASCOM AV) (Rajkovich Martin Et Al, Rajkovich George Trustee, Owner). Council District 6. SNI: Burbank/Del Monte. CEQA: Exempt.

   Recommend: Approval.

5. PD04-009. Planned Development Permit for a broadening and intensification of the uses allowed in an existing industrial complex on a 12.96 gross acre site in the A(PD) Planned Development Zoning District, located at/on the southwest corner of Tully Road and Highway 101 (1290 TULLY RD) (Sfers Real Estate Corp. Owner). Council District 7. SNI: None. CEQA: Negative Declaration.

   Recommend: Approval.

6. PD04-014. Planned Development Permit to construct 2 single-family attached/paired residences on a 0.14 gross acre site in the A(PD) Planned Development Zoning District, located on the west side of South 11th Street, approximately 140 feet northerly of Margaret Street (671 S. 11th Street) (Madelyn and Raymond Ruiz et al, Owners). Council District 3. SNI: University. CEQA: Exempt.

   Recommend: Approval.

7. SP02-049. Special Use Permit to allow demolition of 2 office buildings for a surface parking lot, and rehabilitation of a Victorian residence on a 0.55 gross acre site. in the CG General Commercial Zoning District, located at the east side of North 4th Street approximately 290 feet southeasterly of East St. James Street (120 and 146 N. 4TH ST) (Cornerstone Prop.Llc, Owner). Council District 3. SNI: 13th Street. CEQA: Exempt.

   Recommend: Approval.

This concludes the Planning Director's Hearing agenda for May 19, 2004. Thank you.