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PUBLIC HEARINGS: 2003 Hearing Agendas
Historic Landmarks Commission Hearing Meeting
Wednesday September 3, 2003
Evening Session
6:00 p.m.
City Council Chambers, Room 205
City Hall
801 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95110
Gloria Sciara, Chair | Stephen Polcyn, Vice Chair
Avelino Legaspi| Michael Youmans| Sandra Paim| Justine
Leong| Edward Janke
Stephen M. Haase, AICP, Director
Department of Planning, Building and Code Enforcement
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Good evening, my name is Gloria Sciara, and I am the Chair of the Historic Landmarks Commission. On behalf of the Commission, I would like to welcome you to tonight's meeting. I will now call to order the September 03, 2003, meeting of the Historic Landmarks Commission. Please remember to turn off your cell phones and pagers.
When addressing the Commission, please approach the Commission, identify yourself and state your address for our records. After you have finished speaking, please write your name and address on the speaker’s list at the end of the table.
The procedure for public hearings is as follows:
After the staff report, applicants may make a five-minute presentation.
Anyone wishing to speak in favor of the proposal should prepare to come forward. Each speaker will have two minutes.
After the proponents speak, anyone wishing to speak in opposition should prepare to come forward. Each speaker will have two minutes.
Commissioners may ask questions of the speakers. These questions will not reduce the speaker’s time allowance.
The Commission will then close the public hearing. The Historic Landmarks Commission will take action on the item.
The procedure for referrals is as follows:
Anyone wishing to speak on a referral will be limited to one minute.
Commissioners may ask questions of the speakers. These questions will not reduce the speaker’s time allowance.
The Historic Landmarks Commission will comment on the referral item.
If a Commissioner would like a topic to be addressed under one of the Good and Welfare items, please contact Planning staff in advance of the Commission meeting.
An agenda and a copy of all staff reports have been placed on the end of the table for your convenience.
AGENDA
ORDER OF BUSINESS
6:00 PM SESSION
1. Roll Call
2. 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 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.
The matter of deferrals is now closed.
The following items are considered individually.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC The consent calendar items are considered to be routine and will be adopted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a request is made by a member of the Historic Landmarks Commission, staff or the public to have an item removed from the consent calendar and considered separately. If anyone in the audience wishes to speak on one of these items, please make your request at this time. |
3. CONSENT CALENDAR
a. Approval of the August 6, 2003 Historic Landmark Commission Synopsis.
The following items are considered individually.
4. PUBLIC HEARINGS
a. HP03-009. Historic Preservation Permit for exterior alterations in the form of an exterior exit stair addition to the San Jose Building and Loan (HL91-55) in order to facilitate night club use on a 0.10 gross acre site, in the CG Commercial General Zoning District, located on the north side of West Santa Clara Street approximately 100 feet east of North Market Street (81 West Santa Clara) (Walt Hoefler, Owner). Council District 3. SNI: St. James Square. CEQA: Exempt.
b. HL03-148. SAN JOSE HISTORIC LANDMARK DESIGNATION of the Moody Flats Apartment Building located at 311 North Second Street. (Rusty Lutz, Owner). Council District: 3. SNI: 13th Street. CEQA: Exempt.
c. Discussion and comment regarding the Draft Environmental Impact Report for Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, Cottle Road, South San Jose, Planned Development Rezoning to allow the development of up to 222,673 square-feet of commercial uses on an 18.75 gross-acre site located on the southeast corner of Blossom Hill and Cottle Roads. The vacant IBM Research Building #25 is eligible for the California Register of Historic Resources and is proposed for demolition.
5. PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS
Public comments to the
Historic Landmarks Commission on nonagendized items.
Each member of the public may address the Commission for up to two minutes. The Commission cannot take any formal action
without the item being properly noticed and placed on an agenda. In response to public comment, the Historic
Landmarks 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 at a subsequent meeting; or
Directing staff to place the item on a future agenda.
a. Verbal update on Japantown survey project.
b. Draft Agenda for the Historic Landmarks Commission Retreat in September 2003.
c. Preservation Action Council of San Jose request for funding from the Settlement Fund Account
d. Verbal update regarding additions to the Historic Resources Inventory from the East Downtown Frame Survey
e. Distribution of a letter from Basin Research Associates concerning the Coyote Valley Specific Plan, Santa Clara County
f. Distribution of information regarding Historic Preservation Training for Local Government, Commissions, Boards and Staff
6. REFERRALS FROM CITY COUNCIL, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS OR OTHER AGENCIES
a. SP02-055. Special Use Permit to convert an existing vacant single-family residence to a public eating establishment use on a 0.61 gross acre site, in the CN Commercial Neighborhood LI Light Industrial Zoning District, located at/on the West side of South Autumn Street approximately 90 feet northerly of West San Fernando Street (91 S. Autumn Street) (Sally Meduri, Owner). Council District 6. SNI: Burbank/Del Monte. CEQA: Exempt.
7. GOOD AND WELFARE
a. Report from theRedevelopment Agency
