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Community Meeting Notice for Changes to the North San Jose Development Policy
Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009
Time: 6:30 –9:30 p.m.
Location: City Hall, 200 East Santa Clara Street, Room T-1734
The Department of Planning, Building, and Code Enforcement would like to invite you to a meeting of the North San Jose Neighborhood Taskforce to discuss proposed changes to the North San Jose Area Development Policy, Traffic Impact Fee Plan, and the North San Jose Neighborhoods Plan.
Meeting Agenda
On June 16th the City Council will be considering the following items related to North San Jose:
- Adopt a resolution amending the North San José Area Development Policy to:
- Facilitate the delivery of affordable residential units within North San José consistent with City goals for affordable housing; and
- Allow the Director of Planning the discretion to grant permit time extensions; and
- Make changes to facilitate implementation of the Traffic Impact Fee for hotel and regional commercial uses; and
- Accept Revised North San José Area Traffic Impact Fee Study dated May 2009 and approve an ordinance amending the North San José Area Traffic Impact Fee.
- Defer discussion of the proposal to add capacity within the Policy to allow for up to one million square feet of large scale regional commercial uses and up to 2,000 hotel rooms outside the Core Area, and to decrease the capacity for new industrial uses by two million square feet; and acceptance the North San José Neighborhoods Plan to allow for additional community outreach to occur.
The memo to the City Council encompassing the entire scope of changes to North San Jose is available online: 5/27 Memo to the City Council. A supplemental memo to the City Council is expected to be available on Wednesday, June 10: Supplemental Memo to the City Council. Please note that the City Council will not be considering the Design Guidelines on June 16th. The final revised Design Guidelines will be brought back to the Task Force at a later date, prior to consideration by the City Council.
These proposed changes were presented to and discussed with the Taskforce at the October 2, 2008 meeting in the form of the Implementation Principles and Neighborhoods Plan. Those documents have been combined and reformatted as the Neighborhoods Plan, which takes the Taskforce's guiding principles and formally adopts them as part of the North San Jose Development Policy. It also more fully describes the desired outcomes related to Parks, Schools, etc. There have been no major changes to the content of these draft documents since the Task Force review.
Draft Amended North San Jose Area Development Policy
Draft Updated Traffic Impact Fee
For questions or comments please contact Martina Davis at 408-535-7828 (martina.davis@sanjoseca.gov)
Outreach Meeting Date: June 11, 2009
An outreach meeting to discuss the proposed changes to the North San Jose Area Development Policy and Traffic Impact Fee is scheduled for June 11, 2009. The meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall in room T-332, located on the third floor of the Tower. City Hall security will ensure the elevators are accessible to the third floor. Parking is available under the building, accessible from 6th Street. Please bring your parking coupon upstairs for validation.
City Council Hearing Date: June 16, 2009
City Council is scheduled on June 16, 2009 to consider an amendment to the North San Jose Area Development Policy to allow the Director of Planning to grant permit extensions and to modify the Traffic Impact Fee.
City Council Memo
Draft Amended North San Jose Area Development Policy
Draft Updated Traffic Impact Fee
The proposed changes were heard before the Planning Commission on May 27, 2009. The Planning Commission voted 5-2-0 to recommend that the City Council approve the amendments and accept the Neighborhoods Plan. For more detailed information please see the Planning Commission Staff Report & Attachments and the Synopsis of the hearing.
If you have any questions regarding these documents please contact Darryl Boyd, Principal Planner, at 535-7800 or darryl.boyd@sanjoseca.gov
Neighborhoods Plan and Urban Design Guidelines
On April 22, 2008, the City Council formally accepted the Guiding Principles developed by the North San Jose Neighborhoods Planning Taskforce and provided direction to staff to continue work on the North San José Implementation Strategy and the North San José Urban Design Guidelines. Staff from multiple City departments and the Redevelopment Agency, with the assistance of an urban design consultant, have worked since then to draft these documents.
At Council direction, the North San Jose Neighborhoods Taskforce was reconvened on October 2, 2008 in order to review the draft documents. Staff presented the draft North San Jose Urban Design Guidelines and a draft Implementation Strategy to the Taskforce. The Taskforce provided input and endorsed these draft documents. The draft documents were also presented to a group of North San Jose property owners, business owners and developers who also provided comments on the Guidelines.
The most significant change to the Implementation Strategy requested by the Taskforce was to rewrite the Retail section to more fully express the goal of using retail to make North San Jose a special place. Related to this, Taskforce members discussed the importance of public art as a means of giving North San Jose an identity and asked that this be further developed in either the Implementation Strategy or the Design Guidelines. The draft Implementation Strategy was revised to incorporate these comments, and that text has been transferred into the proposed Policy Amendment or Neighborhoods Plan as appropriate.
The proposed Amendment to the North San Jose Area Development Policy, incorporates a significant portion of what previously had been drafted as an Implementation Strategy. Other items from the Implementation Strategy are now proposed to be combined with the Taskforce Guiding Principles as part of a Neighborhoods Plan for North San Jose, which will be considered by the City Council jointly with the Amendment to the Development Policy in summer 2009.
Consideration of the Draft North San Jose Urban Design Guidelines is not scheduled at this time. An additional Taskforce meeting and additional outreach to property owners and developers will be conducted to gather input on the revised Design Guidelines prior to the items being brought to Council. Comments on the Draft Guidelines can be sent to Darryl Boyd at darryl.boyd@sanjoseca.gov.
NSJ
Task Force
The City
of San Jose convened a Task Force of North San Jose residents, business
owners and property owners to assist with planning for the development
of new neighborhoods and neighborhood services as part of the implementation
of the City's North San Jose Area Development Policy. The North
San Jose Neighborhoods Planning Task Force held its final meeting
on March 6, 2008. The Task Force unanimously adopted a set of Guiding
Principles for future planning and development activity in the North
San Jose Policy area.
Based
upon the input of the Task Force, a North San Jose Implementation
Strategy is under preparation. The Implementation Strategy will
include the Guiding Principles, design guidelines, neighborhood
master plans, and strategies for the future implementation of the
North San Jose Area Development Policy.
Additional
information on the Task Force is available at http://www.sjredevelopment.org/nsjtaskforce.htm
Overview
The updated North San José Area Development Policy will guide
the ongoing growth and development of the North San José
area as an important employment center for San José. This
Policy covers the North San Jose area north and west of Interstate
880 and south of State Route 237. This primarily industrial area
is home to many of the City’s high-tech companies and is a
very important employment center for the City. The City’s
goal for this planning effort is to provide for more development
in North San Jose through a set of policies that benefit both the
employers who call North San Jose home and the residents of San
Jose as a whole.
The Policy provides more flexibility than the adopted policy and
provides additional industrial development capacity for 20 million
square feet of transferable floor area credits that can be allocated
to specific properties within the Policy area. The Policy supports
the conversion of specific sites from industrial use to high-density
residential use, based upon specific criteria compatible with industrial
activity. The Policy also identifies necessary transportation improvements
to support new development and establishes an equitable funding
mechanism for new development to share the cost of those improvements.
City staff and a consultant team began working on technical analysis and preparation of environmental documents for the update in January of 2004. Community outreach activities were conducted from October 2004 through May of 2005. The San Jose Planning Commission considered the project on June 7, 2005 and recommended approval to the City Council. The City Council approved the project on June 21, 2005
Above and Below: Images of North San Jose today and in its potential future
Images courtesy of Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) & Silicon Valley Action Network
Update to the North
San Jose Area Development Policy
The San Jose City Council approved an update to the North San Jose Area Development Policy, associated General Plan Amendments and the creation of a Traffic Impact Fee for the North San Jose Area on June 21, 2005. The following documents were approved by the City Council:
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