PC 11-10-2020 (Amended) CITY OF CUPERTINO
10300 Torre Avenue
Cupertino, CA 95014
CITY OF CUPERTINO
PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING
AMENDED APPROVED MINUTES, November 10, 2020
At 6:45pm Chair Moore called to order the regular Planning Commission meeting. This was a
teleconference meeting with no physical location.
ROLL CALL
Present:Chairperson Moore,Vice Chair R Wang, Commissioners Alan Takahashi,David Fung,
Vikram Saxena
Absent: None
APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
1. Subject: Draft Minutes of October 27, 2020.
Recommended Action: Approve or modify the Draft Minutes of October 27, 2020
Moved by Chair Moore and seconded Vice Chair Wang to: "Approve the minutes as
amended". The motion carried 5-0-0.
POSTPONEMENTS: None
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS:
Jennifer Griffin — spoke about the proposed school closures in the Cupertino Union School
District
WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS:
An email was received regarding item #2
PUBLIC HEARING: None
NEW BUSINESS:
2. Subject: Review of ABAG's "Regional Housing Needs Allocation Proposed Methodology
Report: San Francisco Bay Area, 2023-2031"
Recommended Action:Review the report and recommend whether the City Council should
comment on the RHNA process, methodology or proposed preliminary draft local RHNA.
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Planning Manager, Piu Ghosh, reviewed the RHNA Report with the Planning Commissioners.
She was asked clarifying questions, which she answered. Consulting Attorney from Goldfarb
& Lipman, LLP, Karen Tiedemann, also responded to clarifying questions from the
Commissioners.
Chair Moore opened the public comment period and the following individual(s) spoke:
Jennifer Griffin
Chair Moore closed the public comment period.
numbers for the City Shewn in the repE)A. They agreed with Staff's Fecommended eemments
pandemic r-elated changes te housing/weEking needs.They Feeemmended that the City COUREil
send a letter signed by either the Qty Manager-,Mayor-or et-her-similar-sized/like minded Eities.
unaEhievable tar-gets are defneraliAng. They also recemmended that the Council r-efer- to thee
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The Commissioners discussed the proposed methodology, calculation and the baseline numbers for the
City shown in the report. They agreed with Staff's recommended comments with the addition of a
statement requesting an adjustment be made to the calculations due to pandemic related changes to
housing/working needs. They recommended that the City Council should consiclt with neighboring cities
in order to provide a unified message to ABAG in response to the proposed preliminary draft local RHNA
report.
OLD BUSINESS:
3. Subject: General Plan Annual Review for the year 2020
Recommended Action: That the Planning Commission provide input into the General Plan
Annual Report for the City Council
Planning Manager Piu Ghosh, reviewed the General Plan Annual Report with the Planning
Commissioners. She was asked clarifying questions, which she answered.
Chair Moore opened the public comment period and the following individual(s) spoke:
Jennifer Griffin
Chair Moore closed the public comment period.
The Commissioners discussed the changes made to the report from section LU-19.1 through
LU-30.2. The provided additional comments and suggestions. Over the next several meetings,
they will continue reviewing the changes to the report before it's submission to the City Council
in March.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: None
REPORT OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION: None
ADJOURNMENT:
The meeting was adjourned at 9:50pm. to the next regular Planning Commission meeting on
November 24, 2020 at 6:45 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted:
W 2t,
Beth Ebben, Deputy Board Clerk