November 15, 2022 Joint Special Meeting of Mountain View City Council and Shoreline Regional Park Community

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[00:00:00] Heather Glaser: in Zoom to view captioning. You may also click on the carrot, up arrow next to the show, captions button, to select your preferred captioning language, alter captioning setting, such as thought size, or view the full transcript, and a side panel. I will now read the usual announcement as required. This meeting will be conducted in accordance with California government code section 54953E as authorized by resolution of the city council. Please contact city.clerk at mountain view.gov to obtain a copy of the applicable resolution. All members of the city council are participating in this meeting by video conference with no physical meeting location. Members of the public wishing to observe the meeting live may do so at mountain view.logistar.com. youtube.com forward slash mountain view gov and on Comcast channel 26. As noted on the meeting agenda, members of the public, they provide oral public comments during the public comment period by visiting mountain view.gov forward slash meeting to enter the Zoom webinar or by phone by dialing 669-9009128 and entering webinar ID 843-512-67142. Any emails received by 430 p.m. today, or received directly by the city council.

[00:01:20] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. The city clerk will take attendance by roll call.

[00:01:42] Heather Glaser: Council member Abbe Coca?

[00:01:43] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Here,

[00:01:44] Heather Glaser: Councilman for Labor.

[00:01:46] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Sure.

[00:01:46] Heather Glaser: Council member Metachek?

[00:01:48] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Here.

[00:01:48] Heather Glaser: Council member Shawalter?

[00:01:50] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Sure.

[00:01:51] Heather Glaser: Vice Mayor Hicks?

[00:01:52] Vice Mayor Alison Hicks: Here.

[00:01:53] Heather Glaser: Mayor Ramirez.

[00:01:55] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Here.

[00:01:56] Heather Glaser: We have a quorum with council member commit absent.

[00:01:58] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. We will now proceed to item 3 presentations. Please note this is a presentation only. The city council will not take any action. Public comment will occur after the presentation item. Presentation is item 3.one, district attorney, Jeff Rosen's presentation on 8 crime statistics. Uh, if staff wouldn't mind helping me promote the district attorney. Thank you. We are pleased to be joined this evening by Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen to share a presentation. Whenever you're ready, Jeff.

[00:02:34] Jeff Rosen: Thank you very much, Mayor Ramirez, and it's very nice to be with you, leaders in Mountain View. In Mountain View, in the last couple of years, we've had several hate crimes, including a Chinese American man who was spit on Castro Street while eating his lunch, as well as a woman wearing a hijab that was riding her bicycle and was chased and assaulted by someone. So, really, the first question is, what is a hate crime, as opposed to a hate incident? So I'll discuss that briefly. Uh, why does it matter that we prosecute hate crimes? What is the effect of prosecuting a hate crime and why does that matter? And then finally, what can we do to reduce the incidences of hate incidents and hate crimes? So, first, is what is a hate crime? A hate crime is, number one, an underlying crime like assault, battery, burglary, robbery, vandalism, in addition, that the victim was targeted, uh, because of the victim's perceived ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or gender. So, it's a crime, and the motivation for the crime was the defendant's perception of what the victim's ethnic identity is sexual orientation, uh, et cetera. So it's those two parts. This is to distinguish a hate crime from a hate incident. So, generally speaking in the law, words alone, um, no matter how hateful and awful, are not a crime, but a physical action, with a motivation based on a bias, is a hate crime. So, the, an example that illustrates this is, if someone yells and screams, well, I'll give you examples from what happened in Mountain View. So, um, Chinese American Man was eating lunch on Castro Street, and a woman approached him and started yelling at him about the kung fu, and the coronavirus, and he should go back to China, and it's terrible what, you know, the kung fu has done. And then she spit on him. So, the spitting on him is a physical act. It's an assault, combined with the biased motivation of this individual, which we knew from what she said. There is a one example where words by themselves can be enough for a hate crime, and it's in a situation where one person threatens another, and the threats are so powerful, and they leave a reasonable person thinking that someone is about to assault them. So an example of this is an incident that happened a couple months after the pandemic began in our country in San Jose. There was a Vietnamese American couple that was shopping at a grocery store, and an individual, came up to them and started screaming at them, that he was gonna kill them because they brought the China flu here. Uh, and he was gonna kill them. And he actually took his hands, and he made them sort of like the shape of a gun, and he put his thumb down like he was shooting at them. And so that's a case where we charge that as threatening a criminal action, threatening to hurt someone, and also as a hate crime. So, one thing I should just let the city council know is there's a manual that prosecutors review to keep up on laws relating to hate crimes to determine when and how they should be prosecuted. And it's a manual that's published, a prosecutor's offices all over the state, and it's a manual that was written by my office. So we take hate crimes very seriously. We have a prosecutor that is assigned to review all of the potential hate crime cases that come to us and to prosecute those. And I think that raises the question of why does it matter, right? Why, what is the difference between punching someone, and yelling an ethnic slur at them, and then punching them? Well, I think the way to think about this is that a hate crime is really a crime against three. It's a crime against that individual. Let's say the Chinese American man that was just eating his lunch on Castro Street. something that many of us, I'm sure, have done. I've done. I live not far from Los Altos and have lunch on Castro Street quite often. So it's that crime of yelling and then spitting on that man, is a crime against that Chinese American man, as an individual, number one. Number two, it's a crime against Chinese Americans, Asian Americans, really all over the Bay Area, because unfortunately, hate spreads quickly, and fear spreads quickly. And when one Chinese American person is attacked on Castro Street in Mountain View, soon, many Asian Americans all over the Bay Area hear about it, and are concerned about it, and are fearful. So it's a crime against that individual. It's a crime against that individual's entire ethnic community. And finally, and significantly, it's really a crime against all of us, as Americans, who are entitled to fair and equal treatment under the law. And certainly, it's a crime against the values that we hold in this community of pluralism, intolerance, and welcoming people, who are here from other countries, and come from different backgrounds. So, that's why I think it's so important to prosecute these crimes. I think before I say what we can do about them, Probably want to tell you a little bit just about the numbers of hate crimes that we've had in our county. And I think what's important is the trend, as opposed to just the raw numbers. So, in 2020, we filed more hate crime charges than we had in the proceeding 10 years in our county, 17. In 2021, we filed more hate crime charges than we've ever filed before in our county, 23. So the trend over the last couple years has gone up, and this is something that we've seen not only in our county, but nationally. This year, up to this point, there's been about 10 or 11 hate crimes in our county. So I'm optimistic. I'm hopeful that things are starting to calm down a bit. In terms of the, the victims of hate crimes in our, in our county. We're in a very diverse county, as all of you know, uh, 35% Asian, a 3rd white, 25% Latino, 3% African American, 40% of the people who live in our county were not born in the United States, a very, very diverse county. And the victims, the demographics of the victims of our hate crimes reflect that. Certainly in 20 and 2021, we saw an increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans. We certainly saw that. In terms of the perpetrators of hate crimes, The perpetrators are also diverse. They're white, they're black, they're Hispanic, they're Asian. Uh, it's there's not one ethnic group that is the committer of hate crimes, nor is there one ethnic group that is the victim of hate crimes. Unfortunately, hatred is something that many different groups can express. Finally, what can we do? One thing to know is that when we charge a hate crime enhancement, uh, not only, or does it reflect the seriousness of the crime and increase the potential accountability that the individual will face in terms of jail or prison, but it also specifically directs the judge as a part of sentencing to, uh, consider strongly having the perpetrator attend classes about the group that he victim and their contributions to this country, and to do community service, uh, for a group that serves the ethnicity of the people that he, um, victimized. And I think the reasoning behind that is something that we all understand, which is, we really want today's perpetrator of a hate crime to be tomorrow's upstander. You know, we want to try to change people's hearts and minds, and, uh, change the views that someone who target someone of a different ethnicity for a violent act in the future, uh, to be different. And that leads me to the things that we can do to try to prevent hate crimes. Uh, number one, uh, call the police. If you see a hate crime, or you see an incident that appears to be a hate crime, please call the police. Secondly, if you see someone that's being verbally assaulted for their race or ethnicity, a powerful thing to do, if it seems safe, is just to stand next to that victim, really just the physical presence of standing next to that victim tends to have a de escalating effect on a perpetrator. So we also encourage that. In addition, as many of you know, there's been many, many rallies against all forms of hate in our county over the last couple of years, and I participated in many, and I know that you have as well. One thing that I would just highlight that we did in the District Attorney's office, really around March of 2020 when I began to hear more reports of hate crimes targeting Asian Americans as a result of the coronavirus, is we put a public service announcement out. It's 57 seconds long. It was replayed many, many times on local media, and it's something that we show at community meetings. And it's, it's, it's a very simple message about, we're having no, we have no tolerance for people that attack others for, uh, their ethnicity or how they look, and it's with a group of prosecutors from my office who represent, um, you know, every background and ethnicity and gender. And so it's something that we do to try to signal to victims, potential victims. We want you to report these crimes. We don't, because these crimes are very underreported, victims often feel like either what's a big deal, or a sense of shame, they stood out, they just want to blend in with everyone else. So, one is for nobody will do anything about this. So part of the message of our PSA and a lot of our public outreach is we want to encourage victims to report. We want to discourage individuals from committing these crimes, because we take them very seriously. And finally, we want to remind all of us, again, what our values in this community are, which is a belief in diversity, and fair, equal, and respectful treatment for everyone. Thank you.

[00:14:29] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much for the presentation. Uh, it's serving enough to, uh, to hear the, the trends increasing, um, I did have a quick question. Uh, I don't know if it's as simple to quantify, but, uh, as as significant as the statistics are for hate, uh, uh, crimes and hate incidences. Uh, we also have a significant increase in hate speech and hate rhetoric. Uh, to what extent does the district attorney's office uh, monitor that? and then are there things that we should do um, when we encounter that?

[00:15:07] Jeff Rosen: Well, in terms of prosecution worth constrained by by the law, which only allows us to prosecute criminal acts. In terms of gathering information, One thing that would be helpful is, while we track, um, all of the police reports that are sent to us to review for filing a hate crime, we're not capturing all of the hate crimes or hate speech that's going on, because the police are only gonna bring to the DA's office, a crime that they think they have solved. So a good example of that is, um, all over this county, um, there have been Jewish synagogues and Jewish institutions that have been vandalized. Those are not reflected in the statistics, because the perpetrator or perpetrators have not been found. Um, so that it would be helpful if there was a way, a way to capture that. In terms of hateful speech and hateful rhetoric. You know, sometimes, uh, sometimes, I'm always a dad. I'm sometimes the DA, so I can only say, you know, what we try to teach our children in terms of how to speak to one another. Um, but, um, uh, speech is a harder thing to, uh, to control. And, but, but I, your concern is well taken, Mayor, because, uh, hate speech, if not, checked or called out or, can lead to, to hate crimes and to violence, sadly.

[00:16:48] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, DA. Does any member council have any questions or comments?

[00:16:55] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Council member of the Koga.

[00:16:58] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mayor. I just want to thank you, DA Rosen, for your leadership on this issue. I know we stood together at many, um, Asian sentiment rallies and, um, you spoke out and, uh, you know, the, when silver lining, I, I would say out of all of that is that our AAPI community has, um, risen up and spoken out, um, for the loudest, I would say, and historically, and, um, it's always been, um, very much appreciated to have allies like you with us. So I just want to offer my things. Thank you.

[00:17:41] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Any other comments or questions? If not, uh, thank you again. Uh, district attorney for joining us this evening and for uh, providing your presentation. Uh,

[00:17:53] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: we will now take public comment. Uh, for the presentation, uh, with any member of the public on the line like to provide comment on the presentation item listed on the agenda. If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press star 9 on your phone. Timer will be displayed on the screen. I'm not seeing any members of the public raising their hand. So we will move on to item 4 consent calendar. These items will be approved by one motion, unless any member of the council wishes to remove an item for discussion. Would any member of the council like to pull an item? No hands. Uh, we will speak public comment. Would any member of the public on the line like to provide comment on any item on the consent calendar? If so, please click the right hand button in Zoom or press star 9 on your phone. The timer will be displayed on your screen. We'll go ahead and Allocate 3 minutes, the 1st speaker is Bruce England.

[00:18:59] Bruce England: Thank you, mayor. This is really fast because I'm really not sure if I should bring it up now or during open public comment, but on item 42, where you're going to be talking about or where you would discuss. Uh, continuing the meetings in a virtual way, um, for the time being. A memo was sent to the advisory bodies. Um, recently indicating that they would meet in person starting in February, including members of the public. This very much concerns me. Maybe some guidance would be helpful to me, whether I should comment on it now or during open public comment, since it's not entirely related to 42.

[00:19:39] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: I would recommend speaking to that during non-agenda public coming.

[00:19:44] Bruce England: I will do that. Thank you.

[00:19:47] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. The next speaker is Joan McDonald. June, are you able to unmute yourself? Joan, um,

[00:20:18] Heather Glaser: There you go.

[00:20:20] Joan McDonald: Okay. I have a contr- I recounted, trackpad and mouse, so it's really hard for me to deal with it. Um, my concern has to do with the item of, um, a small park that will be developed in the Mauna Loma area. And I appreciate the, um, effort, but I just want to make sure that council doesn't think that that is going to be sufficient if we don't have access to the park on the school grounds more than non school hours. Um, since the school has not been using the green space at all. Recently, you know, for quite a while, and it is still the community. Park access that we are concerned about. So that's my comment.

[00:21:39] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much, John. Being no members of the public, uh, in the queue, we will proceed to, uh, action and uh, motion. Uh, which should include the title of the resolutions attached to items 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4 by Smerdics.

[00:22:03] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: So, I am ready to make a motion, uh, to pass the consent calendar, including item 4.2, adopt a resolution of the city council in city of Mountain View, authorizing, and continuing virtual meetings at the city council, committees, boards, and commissioners pursuant to AB 361, and making required findings to be read entitled only for the reading wave. I don't 4.3, adopt a resolution of the city of Mountain View, amending article 4, section one of the bylaws, the downtown committee, regarding membership composition. We read entitle it only further reading way. And item 4.4, adopt the resolution of the city council in the city of Mountain View, authorizing temporary closure from public access of 15 cartoon spaces, within parking lot 7, between the hours of 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. daily, from November 20, 2022, through March 31st, 2023, uh, November 19th, 2023, through March 31st, 2023. 24, and November 24, 20, 24th through March 31st, 2025. Prius Place Santa Clara County's Cold Weather Shelter Program, Stack, and participants, to be read in title only for their leading ways.

[00:23:27] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. Council member Mattachek.

[00:23:30] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: I'll second the motion.

[00:23:33] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. Is there any comments or questions? If not, we'll take the roll call vote.

[00:23:42] Heather Glaser: Vice Mayor Hicks?

[00:23:44] Vice Mayor Alison Hicks: Yes.

[00:23:45] Heather Glaser: Council member Mattachek?

[00:23:47] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes.

[00:23:47] Heather Glaser: Council member Abbe Coca?

[00:23:49] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: I

[00:23:50] Heather Glaser: council member labor.

[00:23:51] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Hi.

[00:23:52] Heather Glaser: Council member Shawalter?

[00:23:54] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes.

[00:23:55] Heather Glaser: Mayor Ramirez?

[00:23:57] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes.

[00:23:57] Heather Glaser: Motion carries unanimously.

[00:24:00] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Great, thank you very much. Well, now move on to oral communications, this portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the council on any matter not on the agenda. Speakers are allowed to speak on any topic for up to 3 minutes during the session. State law prohibits the council from acting on non-agenda items. Would any member of the public on the line like to provide comment on this item? If so, please click the raised hand button in Zoom, or press star 9 on your phone. A timer will be displayed on your screen. The 1st speaker is Greg Eunix.

[00:24:39] Greg Unangst: Mayor Ramirez and members of city council. This is Greg Eunanks, the mountain view resident and the current president of Friends of Stevens Creek Trail. Mission of the Friends is to promote community pride and involvement in the completion, enhancement, and enjoyment of Stevens Creek and Permanente Creek trails, and wildlife corridors. I'm here tonight to reiterate our appreciation for your passport for our efforts to enhance the Stevens Creek Wildlife Corridor. In March 2016. We requested $4,785, as part of the matching funds for a valley watered grant for an $80,000 study to investigate eight barriers that, indeed, the migration of steelhead traveled along the creek. These barriers are located along the entire length of the creek, from Mountain View to Cupertino. By limiting these barriers, a dealhead trot would be able to successfully migrate in San Francisco Bay, to the upper reaches of Stevens Creek, to spawn and create new generations of the miraculous ocean going fish. The council approved their request, and the study grant was awarded. Study was completed in November 2017, and presented to the Republic, the interested agencies. Friends proposed at that time to take on the responsibility of removal of one of the barriers, located at the privately owned Deep Cliff Golf course in Cupertino. March 2018, the city again voted to contribute $9,900 to the friends towards the local share for a valley water grant for $176,000 project to remove this barrier. This was a learning experience for the friends. Getting approvals for all the regulatory agencies was much more complicated and inexpensive than expected. We only received final approval in July 2021. Too late to begin construction during the narrow window allow for valley water or construction near the creek. However, in July 2022, we were able to award a contract to affirm with an excellent track record, constructing projects within stream beds. Deconstruction began in September and finished in October 2026, 2022, a little over two weeks ago. This culminated over six years of effort. Thank you again for your support of these type projects. We hope the success of this project. lead your collaboration efforts to remove the other barriers along the creek. We also look forward to Mountain View extending the trail south to Remington Avenue in the high school starting next year. Again, thank you for your continued support.

[00:27:23] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much, Greg. The next here is Tim McKenzie.

[00:27:31] Tim McKenzie: Greetings, all. I would like to echo, I think, the comments that are about to come from, uh, Bruce England about the, I would also like to see that advisory bodies maintain a virtual option. I think that the council just recently voted to maintain, even though going back to in person, maintain the ability for members of the public, to speak virtually and attend virtually. And I would like to see that for our city boards to maintain the engagement that we have been able to have. Um, and also like to add my support to what Joan McDonald said about uh, Parks in Montaloma neighborhood, looking forward to the fact that we're getting a new one, but also maintaining access uh, is important.

[00:28:23] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. Thank you. The next speaker is Bruce England.

[00:28:31] Bruce England: Thank you, Mayor. I suppose this will be a bit of an anti-climax, but here goes anyway. Um, So there is a memo that was issued to the advisory body. So unless I'm misreading it, it appears that city intends to compel most of the advisory body meetings to have public participation in person only starting in February. This is because only council chambers is set up to accommodate hybrid meetings with public involvement. The various conference rooms are not. I don't consider this acceptable. Through the pandemic, we've seen improved public engagement with access to city meetings currently easier to manage than before the pandemic. Um, I, for one, do not want to see public participation, we have gained drop off due to this change. Accordingly, my ask is that the city not make the switchover until they've upgraded the conference rooms to accommodate hybrid meetings. If that can't happen by February, that can happen by February. Great. If not, then please wait. I know this is not on the agenda. So I hope that maybe it could be discussed at a later date or staff directed, look into it. Thank you.

[00:29:37] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. Being no other members of the public wishing to speak, we will proceed to item 6. authorization of the Shoreline regional park community refunding revenue bonds 2022 series A. And uh, let's see, if staff wouldn't mind helping me elevate everyone who needs to be in the panel? Finance and administrative services director Jesse Takahashi will present the item whenever you're ready.

[00:30:08] Jesse Takahashi: Good evening, uh, board members of the Shoreline community. Tonight, staff is asking the board to authorize the issuance of refunding revenue bonds, to refinance the shoreline communities, existing 2011 revenue bonds at lower interest rates, thereby reducing overall bet service expenditures for the community. The board is also being asked to appoint bond council, a municipal advisor and placement agent, and authorized execution of various official documents to complete the refinancing. The Shoreline Community plans to issue approximately $21.6 million in bonds at a true interest cost of 4.83%. This represents a net present value savings of just under $1200000 or 5.2% to 6% of the outstanding principal amount of the 2011 bonds. Total cash flow savings from the financing, refinancing are estimated to be $2400000 over the life of the new bonds. After several consultations with staff and the bond financing team, a decision was made to complete the refinancing through a private placement process, rather than a public bond sale, as a private placement, enabled us to complete the process, much quicker, and lock in an interest rate sooner, which is very important, as we are undergoing a quickly rising interest rate environment right now. And we were also able to incur lower cost of issuance as a result. Requests for proposals were sent by our placement agent to 17 potential bidders that are active in the private municipal placement market, and we received a toll of 5 bids back. The lowest responsible bid came from Bannerbank out of Sacramento. This transaction is expected to close with council's approval tonight on November the 22nd next week. Tonight we have Christopher Lynch. The Bond Council for City, from John Jones Hall, and Wing C. Fox, municipal advisor from Urban Futures, Inc. available to answer any questions that you may have on this item. And that concludes my presentation.

[00:32:31] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. Does any member of the council have questions? Not seeing any, so we will move to public comment. Would any member of the public on the line like to provide comment on this item? If so, please click the race hand button in zoom or press star 9 on your phone. Timer will be displayed on your screen. you know, members of the public wishing to speak. I will bring the item back for council deliberation and action and note that emotion to approve the recommendation should also include reading the title of the resolution attached to the report. Council member show Walter.

[00:33:15] Councilmember Pat Showalter: We'd be glad to move the staff recommendation. Um, acting as the Shoreline Regional Park community board of directors, adopt a resolution of the Mountain View Shoreline Regional Park community. One, authorizing the issuance and sale of Mountain View Shoreline, regional park community, refunding revenue bonds, two, appointing board council, a municipal advisor, and a placement agent for the Shoreline community in connection with the refunding revenue bonds, three, authorizing and directing execution of related documents, including a seventh supplemental indenture of trust, and four, authorizing official actions to be read entitled only for their reading waived.

[00:33:59] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, Vice Mayor Hicks.

[00:34:02] Vice Mayor Alison Hicks: Yes, I'm I'm ready to 2nd as well, and I just wanted to say, I have no questions, and probably other council meet people as well, because we were offered a very good briefing on this. Mayor, you're muted.

[00:34:24] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: For key mistake. See, no other hands up. I will ask the city clerk to start the roll call vote.

[00:34:31] Heather Glaser: Council member show alter?

[00:34:33] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes.

[00:34:34] Heather Glaser: Vice Mayor Hicks?

[00:34:36] Vice Mayor Alison Hicks: Yes.

[00:34:36] Heather Glaser: Council member Abbe Koga?

[00:34:38] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: I,

[00:34:39] Heather Glaser: council member Kimei.

[00:34:41] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Yes.

[00:34:41] Heather Glaser: Council member Lieber? Council member Matachek?

[00:34:45] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes,

[00:34:46] Heather Glaser: Mayor Maris.

[00:34:48] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yeah.

[00:34:48] Heather Glaser: Motion carries unanimously.

[00:34:52] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. We will now proceed to 7. construction and demolition debris ordinance. And say goodbye to Jesse. Thank you. And hello to Jennifer Cutter. Solid waste manager, Jennifer Cutter will present. Whenever you're ready.

[00:35:09] Jennifer Cutter: Thank you so much, mayor. Good evening, mayor and council members. Uh, this evening, we are looking to update our construction and demolition debris ordinance. In 2008, the city adopted its current construction and demolition debris ordinance, which requires 50% landfill diversion for all projects of at least 5000 square feet, which matched the state's waste production goals at the time. However, California statewide construction debris requirements increased, starting in 2017, to a minimum 65% diversion rate, as part of the California green building code, for all new construction, as well as certain additions and alterations. The covered project types do not align with those regulated by the city's existing ordinance. Therefore, the following ordinance amendments are proposed. We would like to align the covered project types in our city ordinance with Calgary, debris diversion requirements. We would like to extend the 65% debris diversion rate to demolition only projects. We would like to revise the timing of the construction and demolition debris management plan to make the submittal later on in the process, which will better streamline things for applicants and city staff. Make it less time consuming. And we would like to finally, for smaller projects, allow simplified applicant documentation to demonstrate compliance when appropriate. With that, that concludes my presentation, and I'm available for questions. Thank you.

[00:36:55] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. Thank you. Does any member of the council have questions? Being none. What any member of the public on the line like to provide comment on this item? If so, please click the race hands button in Zoom or press star 9 on your phone. Be no hands in the queue. I will bring the item back to council for deliberation and action, and note that a motion to approve the recommendation should also include reading the title of the ordinance attached to the report. Council member Shel Walter.

[00:37:31] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Well, I just like to comment that I'm really pleased to see this coming forward. This kind of update of our disposal ordinance is just an important part of our whole sustainability program. which is, you know, a very comprehensive one. And so I'm glad to see this, and I also have heard over the years from friends, who wanted to recycle, when they were remodeling their homes, that it was, you know, it was difficult. So it's good now, that we have a routine, and a methodology that's available to everybody. That's, you know, that's good. And then the other thing I like to see is this, um, uh, it's really good for government, from time to time, to change a process, to look at when something needs to be put in, like the debris plan here, and say, Well wait a minute. This doesn't... this doesn't work as smoothly as it could. And then recommends a change to improve it. So, I just like to, you know, I just like to mention that. That is a very good governance, uh, um, uh, practice, and thank you for doing it.

[00:38:48] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: So, um, does anybody else has it, have any, oh, Vice Mayor Hicks? Go ahead.

[00:38:55] Vice Mayor Alison Hicks: Well, I'm ready to second your, are you making a motion, I assume? Did you read it?

[00:39:01] Councilmember Pat Showalter: No. Sure. I'll read it. Yeah, okay. Um... Introduce an ordinance of the city of Mountain View, amending chapter 16, article 3 of the Mountain View City Code, governing construction and demolition debris diversion, and finding this ordinance exempt from California Environmental Quality Act, guidelines sections, 15308, um, 14 CCR at 15308. to be read in title only, further reading wave, and a 2nd reading, set for December 13, 2022.

[00:39:43] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. And by Smur Hicks? Was the 2nd?

[00:39:46] Vice Mayor Alison Hicks: Yes. I'm ready to second that, and I don't have extensive comments, and I didn't have questions, but I'm just, I'm actually really excited about this. I think that demolition debris is a huge part of our landfill. And so it's great that it's great that we're doing this, and I'm particularly, I was particularly excited by the line that said, we would allow for simplified documentation, to demonstrate construction and demolition, debris diversion compliance, because simplified documentation is always important. So, with that, I'm very excited to sign.

[00:40:26] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. Any remaining comments or questions? If not, we'll take the roll call.

[00:40:34] Heather Glaser: Council membership, Walter?

[00:40:36] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes,

[00:40:37] Heather Glaser: Vice Mayor Hicks.

[00:40:38] Vice Mayor Alison Hicks: Yes.

[00:40:39] Heather Glaser: Council member Abby Coca.

[00:40:40] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Hi.

[00:40:41] Heather Glaser: Council member Kame.

[00:40:44] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Yes.

[00:40:45] Heather Glaser: Council member Lieber? Council member Metachek?

[00:40:49] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes.

[00:40:50] Heather Glaser: Mayor Ramirez?

[00:40:51] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yeah.

[00:40:52] Heather Glaser: Motion carries unanimously.

[00:40:55] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, and thank you very much for your work and for the presentation. Well, now move to item 7.2 public hearing on downtown business improvement areas and allocation of 2023 business improvement area, uh, areas, revenues. Business improvement area, assessments are subject to majority protests by the affected businesses. Written protests against the proposed assessments submitted by mail, delivered to the city clerk's office by 5 PM today, or placed in the city hall utility payments mail slot prior to the close of this public hearing, will be counted. At the end of this hearing, we will take a short recess to allow staff to collect any written protests in the utility payments mail slot during the hearing and determine whether a majority protest exists. Economic vitality manager John Lang will present the item whenever you're ready.

[00:41:49] Economic Vitality Manager John Lang: Uh, good evening, mayor. Um, members of council, tonight we are holding the 2nd public hearing in the annual renewal process for the downtown business improvement areas. The 1st meeting on October 11th, 2022, was to review and preliminarily approve the BIAs. There are 2 improvement areas. BIA number one includes all businesses along Castro Street and the side streets. And BIA number 2 includes all businesses in the 100 to 300 blocks of Castro Street. The BIA assessments are used for specific programming and services to support the downtown businesses. Any changes to the areas, including fee structure and boundaries require a majority vote by the downtown businesses. In the annual report prepared by the DBA, the 2023 projective revenues in both areas are approximately $40,675. Tonight, there are 2 recommendations for city council consideration. The 1st adopt resolutions to levy an assessment, MBA is number one and number 2, and authorize the city manager to allocate the 2023 assessments to fund a contract for services with a Mountain View Chamber of Congress. This concludes staff's comments. I'm available for questions.

[00:43:12] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: you. You very much. Does any member of the council have questions? Be none. We'll move to public comment, would any member of the public on the line like to provide comment on this item? If so, please click the race hand button and zoom or press star 9 on your phone. Being no members of the public wishing to speak. We will now. Uh, I will now close the public hearing and recess this meeting for 5 minutes to allow staff to review any written protests received, so we will, we will return at 719 PM.

[00:44:48] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: welcome back. We will now accept a report from the city clerk regarding any written protests received.

[00:44:56] Heather Glaser: No written protests were received for this item.

[00:45:00] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, and will now bring the item back for counsel deliberation and action, and note that a motion to approve the recommendation should also include reading the title of the resolutions attached to the report.

[00:45:25] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Okay, I'm ready to make a motion. Uh, to adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View, levying the annual benefit assessment of the calendar year 2023, for downtown Mountain View Business equipment area, number one, and authorizing the city manager, doesn't need to allocate the assessments to fund a contract for services with the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce, to be read entitled only for the Reading Wave, and to adopt a resolution of the city council, the city of Mountain View, loving the annual benefit assessments for calendar, in year 2023 for downtown Mountain Business Improvement area number 2, and authorizing the city manager, doesn't need to allocate the assessments done a contractor services with the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce. We read entitled only Further Reading Wave.

[00:46:16] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. Council member Abby Kogan.

[00:46:18] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: I'll second the mission.

[00:46:21] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Wait, thank you. Any other questions or comments? If not, then we will take the boat.

[00:46:29] Heather Glaser: By Sarah Hicks?

[00:46:30] Vice Mayor Alison Hicks: Yes.

[00:46:35] Heather Glaser: Oh, sorry. Council member. Counselor Abbe Coco? Can

[00:46:46] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: you hear me? I'm sorry. Okay, good.

[00:46:49] Heather Glaser: Can't remember Kamei.

[00:46:51] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Yes.

[00:46:52] Heather Glaser: Council member, Leaper.

[00:46:54] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Hi.

[00:46:55] Heather Glaser: Council member Mattachek?

[00:46:56] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes.

[00:46:57] Heather Glaser: Council member show Walter?

[00:46:59] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes.

[00:46:59] Heather Glaser: Mayor Ramirez.

[00:47:01] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yeah.

[00:47:02] Heather Glaser: Motion carries you unanimously.

[00:47:04] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Fantastic. Thank you very much. Look, in the past 25 minutes, we've, uh, I think completed probably 1000s and 1000s of hours of work. So thank you to our staff, uh, for everything that you do. Uh, and it's before 7.30. We're on track to finish the meeting. I'm gonna guess by 8.30 p.m. Hold me accountable to that. I've been 7.3 Middlefield Park master plan. Vismer Hicks, do you have an announcement to make?

[00:47:32] Vice Mayor Alison Hicks: I do. Um, I'm recusing myself because of my business or investment interest in siemens, paneers, which is a medical technology company, located very near the park plan area.

[00:47:44] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. Thank you very much. Would any members of the council like to make disclosures, I'll disclose that I met with the applicant. Council member Show Walter.

[00:47:58] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes, I met with the applicant on several occasions and um, also visited the site.

[00:48:04] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. Council member command.

[00:48:06] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. I met with the applicant and I run the site weekly. Thanks.

[00:48:12] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. Counselor for Arabic, okay.

[00:48:15] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mayor. I also met with the applicant and I visited the site.

[00:48:20] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you Council member Lieber.

[00:48:23] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Thank you. I met with the applicant digitally and uh, went by the site several times and also met with various groups of residents.

[00:48:35] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. Count to member Meta chat.

[00:48:38] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Thank you. I have met with the applicant several times over the years. And I've been to the project site many, many times, and I attended at least one community meeting, and also a few stakeholder meetings.

[00:48:52] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. You very much. Assistant city manager and community development director, Artis Shavastava, and assistant community development director, Lindsay Hagen, will present the item whenever you're ready.

[00:49:08] Aarti Shrivastava: Good evening, council members. Let me just bring up my presentation. Sorry to break the trend. I do have a PowerPoint tonight. Let me just get this set up.

[00:49:34] Lindsay Hagan: All right. Good evening, Mayor Ramirez and council members. My name's Lindsay Hagen, and I'm here tonight with RT Shravostova to present the Middlefield Park Master plan. Um, in September 2020, Google in partnership with Lenley, submitted an application for the Middlefield Park Master Plan. Uh, the master plan is located entirely within the East Wisden Precise Plan. It's about 40 acres in size, across 14 existing parcels located on the eastern edge of the city. The map on your screen shows the boundaries of the master plan in yellow, which are generally bounded by Ellis Street to the west, Middlefield Road, and Mott Avenue to the south. The city limit boundary in the Sunnyvale Golf Course on the east, and the city and county of San Francisco, SFPUC property on the north. The site is located entirely within one half mile of the VTA Middlefield light rail station, which is shown here to sort of split the master plan area in Orange. The master plan is consistent with the East Wisman, mixed use and high-intensity Office General Plan Land use designations, as well as the East was in precise plan, with the 2 exceptions to development standards that are noted in the staff report. This project's gone through a series of public meetings with EPC and council study sessions early last year. Um, meetings with the development review committee on design aspects of the proposal and a series of community meetings to gather input. What's not shown on here are the numerous outreach meetings that the applicant has held with various stakeholders and neighborhood groups. On October 19th, the EPC held a public hearing to review the project materials and the supplemental environmental impact report. EPC recommended council approved the staff recommendation additionally on October 26th. Um, The zoning administrator recommended counsel approved the development agreement for the project. Overall, there has been general support for the project, with a lot of feedback related to the amount and extent of public open space, amenities, the introduction of new housing, and the opportunity to create neighborhood destination of services and activities in this area of the city. From getting to the master plan itself, the applicant team has proposed a maximum a maximum development program that includes up to 1900 high density residential housing units, which are shown in orange on your screen. 2.4 acres of land is proposed to be dedicated to the city for affordable housing. About 1300000 square feet of office is shown in blue. Um, 50,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space is shown in 5 of the residential locations in Ellis Park and in the P2 parking structure, which are shown here in red, um, and labeled as active use. And approximately 10 acres of parks and open space, uh, is proposed with just under 7 acres of land proposed to be dedicated to the city. Um, and a 2.8 acre, privately owned, publicly accessible, open space, um, against the BTA tracks. There are also 2 district parking structures shown in gray, which will serve the majority of parking for the office developments. Otherwise, each office location and residential mixed use location. will have parking on site. In addition to the various land uses, there are also 6 new private service streets to provide access to the new buildings in addition to new pedestrian and bicycle improvements throughout. And finally, the applicant is proposing an optional design feature, to incorporate a private district utility system that would include a central utility plant in the 01 office location, which can serve the master plan area with water, wastewater, recycled water, thermal energy for heating and cooling and electricity. It is important to note that the applicant is submitting a master plan prior to individual development permits as required by the precise plan. So the primary reason for the master plan is to plan for and accommodate a large central park, as well as accommodate other aspects of their project, like district parking, for example. So this master plan does comply with all of the plan requirements per the precise plan. On the applicants proposing to implement the master plan in 4 development phases, shown here on your screen, which are ultimately at the discretion of the applicant to pursue, but the project must always maintain compliance with the precise plan and other city requirements. Phases one and 3 include residential and mixed use development, while phases 2 and 4 include office and district parking. In some cases, as mentioned in the staff report, There are interim measures that are required by the applicant to ensure full compliance is met at each phase. Getting into the residential component of the master plan, the applicant is proposing to construct up to 1520 market rate units. They are pursuing rental units initially, but are providing the flexibility by incorporating condo mapping for all residential units. Um, They are proposing just under 400,000 square feet of bonus residential FAR per the precise plan, which requires that they contribute at least 2100000 in community benefits, and require certain green building measures being incorporated into the development. On the table on your screen outlines the number of units estimated at each location, which is about 38% of the residential units planned for in the mixed use character area of the precise plan. On this translates to about 4000 residents that could be housed here. In addition to the market rate housing, the city has a below market rate program, which requires the 15% inclusionary affordable housing units, as well as a non-residential housing impact fee based on commercial development. The project's affordable housing obligations include paying a housing impact fee for the commercial components of the project at 19.3 million. In lieu of providing inclusionary housing units, the applicant is pursuing an alternative BMR mitigation based on the city's regulations. Ultimately, the city requires an alternative mitigation, must exceed the inclusionary requirement and advance other city affordable housing goals and objectives. And it's ultimately at the discretion of counsel to approve. The applicant's BMR alternative mitigation proposal includes dedicating 2 parcels totaling the 2.4 acres of land at R4A and R6, which are outlined in black on your screen. Um, delivering those parcels as development ready prior to phase one building permits. Um, this puts at least one of the sites are for A at roughly, um, being provided about 4 years earlier than required by city code. Additionally, the applicants required to pay $13 per square foot of affected building area for constructed mitigation features, such as a vapor barrier that are required for the residential sites in this contaminated area. This would be paid to the city at time of land conveyance, and the city in turn would provide these funds to the affordable housing developers. to defray the costs associated with this mitigation. To evaluate this alternative mitigation, the city hired a consultant team, site for consulting, and strategic economics. We worked on identifying quantitative and qualitative criteria and evaluating this proposal, confirming compliance with the land delivery requirements, looking at the development potential as well as the funding needs to deliver these units based on the local mountain view trends and outreach with affordable housing developers regarding feasibility. Key results from the city's evaluation are listed here on your screen. It's important to note that the evaluation that was conducted by staff and the consultant team was based on a family affordable housing mix, which is about 50%, 2, and 3 bedrooms. Um, and this felt like an appropriate type to consider as it's a common type that qualifies for tax credits, and it would seem to be an appropriate type for this location. Um, While staff use this analysis to help confirm compliance, an aid counsel in considering this proposal. It should be should not be taken as a decision to the type of affordable housing that could be located here. And in fact, staff provided additional examples of what could be accommodated on these sites in the staff report. Council does not need to decide today on the affordable housing type or funding allocation for these sites, as those decisions can be made at a later date, if the master plan is approved and the land is available to the city. Overall, the evaluation concluded that the proposal does comply with the alternative mitigation requirements, there is sufficient land to accommodate more than 15% affordable units. And the proposer overall is greater than the on-site inclusionary units. This assessment also highlights that, um, this approach requires significant external funding and likely local city funding that wouldn't otherwise be required with an inclusionary proposal. In addition to the residential components of the project, the applicants building about 50% net new office square footage on site. This means they are requesting about a 3rd of the 2000000 square foot precise plan development reserve for new office in East Wisman. Additionally, the master plan includes about 622,000 square feet of bonus FAR, non-residential bonus FAR, per the precise plan, which requires a community benefit contribution of about 16.9 million. As part of this, they are required to implement lead platinum standards, green building standards, as well as comply with the job housing linkage program, which coordinates office and residential development as a strategy to ensure office doesn't outpace housing in the area. The project is compliant with the job housing linkage program. Looking at the active uses on site, in red on the map on your screen, the project is required to provide a minimum of 5000 square feet at Ellis Street, Middlefield Road, to accommodate neighborhood commercial uses per the precise plan. So the 50,000 square feet includes this required area. These active uses are really a mix of neighborhood commercial uses listed in the precise plans, such as retail, services, restaurants, as well as civic and community spaces. Um, 22,000 square feet is, um, proposed to be uh, participating in the applicant's community benefits, uh, program geared towards small businesses that serve the neighborhood, uh, which I'll discuss in a moment. The remaining active use outside of the precise plan requirement and the small business program. The applicant is incorporating into the master plan as additional, um, active use space that may be pursued should market conditions support more ground floor commercial uses. These areas are not required by the precise plan. So getting into the community benefit proposal, um, Combining the residential and non-residential bonus that they are, Google len lease is required to provide 19100000 of community benefits. In lieu of paying the community benefit and fee, they're proposing to fulfill their obligations in 2 ways. The 1st is with a cash payment within 90 days of approval of half a $10000, which is referred to as people centric funds. And these are intended to serve programs or needs at the discretion of council for residents related to some of the categories here listed on your screen in the red box. Additionally, they are proposing a small business diversification and nonprofit inclusion program referred to as the small business program, uh, which is valued at about $16.5 million. This program is made up of a couple components, which includes construction of 21,000 square feet of subsidized ground floor commercial space in the R1 R2 residential locations, with capped rents and a tenant improvement allowance to build out these spaces. They are also proposing to construct a 1000 square foot community pavilion building within Ellis Park COPA open space that will have minimal rental fees and available for community use. And they are providing a roughly $3000000 support fund to further assist the small businesses participating in this program with additional funding needs. This program is targeting to serve businesses owned by women and people from underserved backgrounds. A grocer, nonprofits, childcare, and businesses with 50% or more of their employees who are women and people from underserved backgrounds. The city had strategic economic, review the value assumptions of this subsidized space based on, um, based on the cash payment and consideration of all carrying costs by the developer, for the subsidized space, including all required impact fees. Uh, the value of the entire community benefit proposal is more like 19.2 to $19.6 million. Um, and so that variation is really based on whether some of the ground floor commercial space may qualify for impact fee waivers or exceptions. Either way, city staff has found that the community benefit program is compliant. Another thing just worth noting is that since the program is tied to the physical development of R1 and R2, This means the applicant is advancing delivery of their community benefits early by incorporating it almost exclusively in phase one. A major component of the project is also the open space network. There are 3 public parks and open spaces proposed to be dedicated to the city, including a half acre gateway park in phase one located in the southeast corner. A one. 36 acre bridge open space in phase 2 to accommodate a future head bike bridge. Uh, and an over 5 acre community park uh, labeled mob park in phase three. These would all go through the city's standard park design construction and naming process. The applicant is also requesting a 2.87 acre privately owned publicly accessible open space labeled Ellis Park here. Ellis Park Popa Open Space will be designed and constructed, uh, and maintained by Google Lenleys, uh, in perpetuity. In doing so, the applicant is requesting a Parkland credit of up to 75% for this 2.87 acre area to count towards their parkland obligations. The app can has provided a conceptual design shown here, which includes a series of recreational elements. Ultimately, the final design for this space will come with the subsequent permits submitted to the city that include the detailed site and building designs in phase one and two. Staff has reviewed the proposal and finds it is compliant with the city's requirements. While no tree removal permits are under consideration tonight as part of the master plan, it is anticipated that trees will need to be removed in order to realize the vision for this new neighborhood. So city staff and the applicant have reviewed over a 1000 trees located on the site. The applicant is estimated approximately 700 trees may need to be removed, and they are proposing to plant about 900 new trees in accordance with the city's tree replanting requirements that are noted here on the screen. The master plan includes a tree framework, which is located in the implementation plan, for which, uh, some of the criteria are outlined here on the screen, uh, with each phase of development, the applicant is required to submit zoning permits, which will include site-specific tree evaluations in accordance with the framework, and the evaluation criteria and the implementation plan as well as standard city criteria. In addition to the master plan development, the applicant team is also requesting a vesting tentative map, this map is proposing to create 18 new lots, 1900 residential condominium lots, and 140 vertical subdivision lots for commercial and private district utility system. In addition to the master plan in the map, the applicant's also requesting a development agreement based on the feedback from the council study session last year. Um, The city and the applicant have, uh, structured the development agreement, uh, with performance miles shows in kind of 2 ways. Um, the DA term is broken into 2 parts. The initial 12 year term requires that the applicant deliver on certain milestones to qualify for the 8 year extension. These requirements include to construct all the way to occupancy, phase one residential, market rate units, up to 185 units, deliver on about 50% of the small business program, provide the dedicated parcels to the city and pay all cash payments proposed. Additionally during this term, um, impact fees associated with the project will be frozen with an annual escalator applied that is similar to what is done in the city budget. This means no new impact fees could be applied during this 12 year term. If the applicant delivers on the required milestones in the 12 year term, then the applicant can request the 8 year extension. During the extended term, newer modified impact fees, can be applied to the net new office square footage, that's yet to be constructed in the project, but would not be applied to residential development. And the 11000000 would be credited against the new impact fees. And lastly, the DA includes a G year maximum extension that the applicant can request, um, throughout the term of the DA based on situations that are really out of the control of any of us, such as severe weather storms, natural disasters, or another pandemic. Any extension requested under this would be a day for day, um, edition, up to a cumulative 2 year maximum. So what this means is that if the applicant fully met the deliverables for the initial term of 12 years and fully utilizes the 8 year extension, and maximizes the 2 year extension request for unforeseen circumstances, then the maximum conceivable length of the DA would be 22 years. It should also be noted that any subsequent permit that is submitted by the applicant and is consistent with the master plan, the development agreement, the precise plan, and the tentative map. The city is required to approve that permit. As part of the DA, the applicant has offered the following public benefits to the city and its residents, including offerings worth about $11 million. This includes a cash payment of $1000000 for people centric funds paid at building permit of the 1st office building. Fund and install public art in Ellis Park, valued at a $1000000 and cash payment of $90000 to facilitate the design and construction of recreational amenities in Mod Park. In addition to these factors, um, that were previously disclosed at the study session last year, uh, during the review of the project, city and the applicant agreed to some additional items noted here in the green box. This includes funding and preparing a quarter 1000000 feasibility study for the bridge open space. Sharing 40 park spaces with parking spaces within the project area for mod park visitors, allowing city use of the LS Plaza and community pavilion building multiple times a year at no rent, and the applicant making good faith efforts to obtain a use tax point of sale permit to allow the city to acquire more the local share of sales tax. The last component I want to touch on is the master plan supplemental environmental impact report. This SCIR tiers off of the East Wisdom forcise Planet and General Plan EIR. The SCIR is required to address any new significant impacts not previously discussed in the prior ERs, which in this case is related to air quality. Specifically, the East was in precise plan EIR noted that when each development project is proposed, the city would assess the project against BackMed's project level air quality thresholds. In this case, based on the assessment, the project would result in significant unavoidable impacts. All other environmental impacts were adequately disclosed and discussed and covered in the prior ARs. The air quality impacts are tied specifically to the scale of this project, the overlapping construction and operational periods, over multiple years, and the proximity of the approved yet to be constructed 400 Logue Avenue residential project. Um, Oops, sorry. Um, the air quality impacts are specifically associated with impacts from architectural coatings and consumer products, as well as emissions from motor vehicles to and from the site, um, the project has implemented all feasible mitigation measures to the greatest extent possible and still results in a significant unavoidable air quality impact. Therefore, the city is required to adopt statement of overriding consideration, which was included in attachment one to this report, in addition to certifying the SCIR. So that concludes staff's presentation. Staff does have here tonight representatives from the housing division, public works department and community services department to help with addressing any questions, as well as representatives from our consultant teams, cycle consulting, strategic economics, and David J. Powers and Associates. Um, the applicant does have a presentation as well. Um, so Michael Timeoff from Google and Andrew Chappell from Lenley's, uh, would like to be presenting that. Thank you.

[01:10:05] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you Lindsay. Oh, I think we will now promote any of the applicant representatives who should be in the panel. Welcome, Michael. Good evening. Whenever you're ready.

[01:10:21] Michael Tymoff: Great. Let's see. I'm gonna share my screen. Let's see here. Hold on one second. Bear with me for one second.

[01:10:56] Michael Tymoff: Okay. Can you see that?

[01:11:01] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes, we can.

[01:11:02] Michael Tymoff: Okay, great. I cannot see you all, so I'm just gonna go off of verbal cues. Um... Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and council members. My name is Michael Timeoff. I am Google's director of District development in Mountain View. Uh, I 1st want to take a moment to say thank you on behalf of our entire Google and Lenley's team. First, thank you to city council for the opportunity to speak before you tonight and for all of the input, guidance, and leadership that you all have provided on all of the issues that matter most to Mountain View. Also, I'd like to say thank you to Lindsay, RT, and the entire city staff for the countless hours you all have spent working alongside us. Um, on the mini iterations of the, um, master plan as well as in negotiating the development agreement. We're truly here. Tonight because of your tireless efforts. And then a final thank you to all of our community stakeholders, for allowing us to listen to you, to meet with you along the way, and to help shape a better plan that really truly reflects the community's needs and aspirations. This has been a long journey. Um, 3 plus years in the making. And we're really excited to continuing that journey of working together to implement the master plan. Before I continue, I would like to turn it over to Andrew Chappell, who's head of development for Lenley's to say a few words.

[01:12:27] Andrew Chappell: Thank you, Michael. Good evening, man, vice mayor, council members, and uh, members of the community on online tonight, on behalf of Len Laser. I wanted to say a quick thank you. Thank you for all the hard work really helping and guiding us along the way to produce a plan that, you know, we are really proud of. Um, I think the momentum of the master plan sort of leads us to that next step, and I'm really excited to share with you all tonight, our intention, to come forward with our first residential and park permits early in the new year. So, a real positive next step forward there. And as we, as we progress to that, that next phase, we're looking forward to continuing this positive working relationship with the city and the community as we, um, you know, as we deliver this transformative project together. So, thank you, and back to you, Michael.

[01:13:25] Michael Tymoff: Thank you, Andrew. Uh, Lindsay did a fantastic job of giving an overview of the project, so I'll try to go quickly. Uh, so we're not doing uh, duplicative work here, but, um, You know, back in 2019, you all adopted the precise plan, which really laid out the vision for a transformation of what today is a um, largely suburban office park that's predominantly covered by surface parking, and really envisions a transformation into a bikable, walkable, pedestrian oriented neighborhood. Our proposal, again, just a thank you to staff, for including us in that process, um, as you all developed the precise plan to make sure that, um, you all had our input so that when we put together and submitted the master plan, we could do it in a way that, um, complied and allowed us to achieve our business objectives while fulfilling all of the guiding policy, principles, and objectives that are, the city was after. Um, so the proposal that's before you tonight not only complies with the precise plan, it goes above and beyond, um, expanding on those guiding principles and delivering a comprehensive community benefits package. This does not represent architecturally, you know, an actual design, but just to give you a bird's eye view of the character and scale of the development. Again, Lindsay really did a great job of summarizing the development. So it's 1900 homes, 20% of which are affordable, up to 1300000 square feet of office, about half of which is existing office to be torn down and redeveloped, and then the balance is from the development reserved, 12 acres of parks and open space, which includes the pathways and connective tissue between the buildings, in addition to the 10 acres of park that we will be getting credit through both through the Parkland dedication, as well as the POPA. All of the development is centered around the Middlefield VTA Light Rail Station, with all the uses within a 10 minute walk, and something that, um, Lindsay did mention lead platinum. So all of the buildings will be, um, certified lead platinum, but we're also seeking certification at the master plan level through leads for neighborhood development. So, just another great attributor. I think calling card for the project, because it's really, um, the elements that the city was looking for in the plan that allow us to achieve a number of those credits. Um, in terms of phasing. So the 1st phase shown here in the burgundy, is delivering almost two thirds of the total homes, both market rate and affordable. So it's around 800, up to 850 homes in R1 and R2. Not sure if you all can see my pointer here, and then the 2 land dedication parcels that Lindsay mentioned. The 2nd phase would see 2 office buildings of around 600, 1000 square feet, and 2 additional acres of parks, and then the 3rd phase, the balance of the homes, almost 700, and then the dedication of Mod Park. And then the final phase is all office, just under 700,000 square feet, and the district garages. Community engagement, again, just really grateful for all the organizations and neighborhood groups that met with us along the way. We've held over 80 community meetings, conducted a community survey, and then August had a community meeting out on site. And again, just lots of great input and feedback to make the plan better. So, again, thank you to everybody who's participated in that. Housing, you know, as I just mentioned, 1st phase is all housing. 20% of the units will be affordable through a land dedication, um, delivery model. And really, again, I think Lindsay hit on this, but, um, the proposal that we put forward allows the city to achieve more units than otherwise would be provided through the inclusionary model. 94 more affordable homes at a deeper range of affordability. You all will be able to decide the household, um, target incomes and household types, um, that are needed the most, and provides a long term flexibility, um, in terms of the ownership model. And then opportunity for more wraparound supportive services on site that also would not be provided in an inclusionary model. Parks and Open Space, really a cornerstone of the plan. Again, the Ellis Park and Plaza will be delivered alongside R1 and R2, and the 1st phase, and the balance of it will come in the 2nd phase with 01. And then Mod Park will be delivered and dedicated to the city. Again, just a word of gratitude for planning and park staff to really work through that process of park design and ensuring that the parks and open space network really meets the needs of the community, and provides a lot of the amenity that the surrounding neighborhoods and citywide is looking for. A rendering here of Ellis Plaza, which is in kind of the daily activity, a community gathering area. There's also provision in the DA for the city to host events throughout the year. And again, the idea here is to really drive foot traffic to the retail, to support the small business program, and to incentivize ridership on the VTA. Um, trees have gotten a lot of, uh, attention recently, and we take, take it very seriously. When we look across this master plan, It really is an opport- great opportunity here to increase the tree canopy by more than 2x. And then when you take into account that the land that the city will get, the park lands could actually get to almost 3 times the canopy that's there today. Tree farm that Google has currently in Gilroy, we're in the process of planting up to 1400 native trees that will be available, um, for planting in a healthy and resilient condition. Um, and then finally, our community benefit package. As Lindsay mentioned, the requirement is around $19 million. So the combination of our community benefits and our public benefits is at 30 million. um, and comprised of the elements that, um, have been spoken to already, the small business diversification program at $18000000 that's front loaded in the 1st phase of development. Um, $9000000 in cash funding, uh, for Mod Park amenities, and then a $1000000.5 for the city to use at its discretion, um, and what we call the People Centric Fund, and then $1000000 in kind improvement in the public art in Ellis Plaza. Small business diversification program, again, 21,000 square feet delivered at the base of R1 and R2 in the 1st phase of development. And it's, the program is really made up of a number of elements. It's, um, the space itself, and then it's a rent and a funding structure for tenant improvement and soft cost will go through a qualification process to identify, uh, women and minority owned businesses, um, that have solid business plans, but that need a little bit of help to, to, um, get going. And some businesses may need a little more support on the front end with capital investment. Others may need a little bit more support ongoing operating expenses and rent. So we'll really work with the individual tenants to meet them, where their need is. And then a $3000000 flexible funding source. Um, again, just really understanding what tenants need, uh, when they're moving in. So in total, when you look across the project, $340 million of total value is being delivered through public infrastructure, parks and open space, housing impact fees, the land value for the 2.4 acres of affordable housing. So this is long term lasting value that's generated, um, through the master plan, through the development agreement, the certainty that that provides us, uh, through the upfront investment. But, um, this is truly just encapsulation of the win, win, win, that, um, has been really the result of your work, your efforts to sit down with us and help us understand, um, what the city is looking for, and for you all on your side to understand what we need in terms of long term certainty, and that's the framework of the development agreement that Lindsay spoke to. So again, just a fantastic opportunity here too. help you all achieve the vision and really serve as a catalyst for the entire East Westman, uh, master plan area or precise plan area. So with that, um, thank you again. The whole team is here tonight to answer any questions that you all might have.

[01:22:40] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. Any member of the council have questions. I'm the member about a check.

[01:22:54] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. Um, I sent in a lot of questions and I really appreciate, um, staff as well as Google and Lindley's for, um, answering all my questions, but of course, I have a few more. Um, and I was, as I read the TDM um, plan, it struck me that several of the elements are specific to Google. And I was just wondering, what happens if, you know, well, Google might start out to be the office, uh, occupant there? Maybe they're not in the long term. Maybe they're not from the beginning. We don't really know, but, um, what happens to the TDM plan is Google is not the one running the plan. Um,

[01:23:45] Lindsay Hagan: I can go ahead and answer that and jump in. Um, this is Lindsay Hagen uh, with the community development department. Um, so, TDM programs, um, are really kind of late living programs. So, uh, what might work out sort of initially for, um, all of the elements that might be included in a TDM program, once they do annual reporting, um, there could be adjustments to the program, so it can adjust based on some of the tenants needs or requirements in order to ultimately meet, um, their trip cap requirements. So in the case of, um, kind of what you're highlighting, uh, some of those features might be typical of Google, um, sort of practice and programmatic, uh, offerings that they have, but should another office tenant come in, um, they are minimally required to implement the elements that are in the conditions of approval, but really any other options are available for them to incorporate into the program.

[01:24:46] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: But they still have to meet the targets.

[01:24:48] Lindsay Hagan: Correct. They always have to meet the trip cap requirements.

[01:24:51] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Okay. Um, and then the other question I have is about the active uses. And um, I don't see, didn't see anything in the material about, um, that all of the active uses have to be open to the public. Um, so for example, one of the ones that concern me is if there is a daycare center. I would want to make sure that that would be open to anybody who wants to use it. Um, and not just, um, say, employees of Google or, um, I don't know how you would do just residents in the area, but I want to make sure that one's open to everyone. Um, Is, is there anything in the material that says it has, everything has to be open to the public?

[01:25:35] Aarti Shrivastava: For the active use areas? Council member, I'll start with um, with the explanation and then Lindsay can can chime in. Um, so the active uses that are being proposed are a total of 50,000 square feet. Um, off that 5000 is required to be neighborhood commercial. Um, about 22,000 additional is going to be proposed as part of the small business program. Um, and the combination of the 5000 square feet and the 22,000 square feet is really where we have, um, the ability to say if you're including this as part of the small business program. Um, and for example, they they say, oh, we want to convert this into a residential gym, that can't be part of the small business program. Or, um, just as an example, can I convert this to tech office? No, that's not allowed. Um, you know, under this program. So we have some controls in the small business program itself. Um, so, you know, where other, uh, examples, um, didn't have those guardrails, we have them here. There's no specific requirement that they all have to be open to the public. But because they're controlled under the small business program, they're defined as active use, which is consistent with how we define our neighborhood serving uses. Um, you know, we have that control. The balance of the 23,000 square feet that makes up the 50,000 is optional. We're not sure it's going to work, uh, but we know that if they claim it as active use, it has to be defined, um, under their own program, or they're going to have to come back and amend it. Um, if they change the area in a mod park to some other use like residential, that's allowed as well. Really, the part we're controlling is the 5000 square feet in the small business program. Um, and that's what helps us. Um, I would say, um, approve a use such as you're saying, you know, if they claim this as a gym or a daycare for Google, it can't be under the small business program anymore.

[01:27:50] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: So what about the area along, say, mod park that is labeled active use? Are you saying that could be changed to residential?

[01:28:01] Aarti Shrivastava: Yes, that is optional. Google is not sure it could be marketed and it would be successful as retail. So they could, for example, have residential stoops there. We studied the maximum amount because that was being proposed. It's not required. Um, and staff recommends keeping it flexible, um, because if market conditions allow, that can be converted into active use. But if they don't allow, um, uh, you know, it, it, what we don't want is having it set as bacon space. We studied it because it was proposed. Severally, the only part that, um, absolutely has to be active use because it's under the small business. Umbrella is along Ellis Park. A portion of them. That is what they were proposing at this time. They would like to see if they, you know, if possible, they would like to extend it, but it's not necessarily, um, in any requirement. We studied it because we wanted to make sure we're starting the maximum impact of everything they've proposed. But it could very well end up being, you know, residential along a park, which is very common, um, in many of our developments.

[01:29:15] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay, thanks. Thank you very much. Council member Abbe Koga.

[01:29:24] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mayor, and thank you for the presentation. Um, I, uh, um, uh, my concerns have to do with, um, the EIR and the, um, significant unavoidable impacts. Um, I sent the, um, item and the, the staff report and the backup, um, link to the, um, my staff at the air quality management district. And, um, it was late in the afternoon or that I got a response from them. I did send it to, um, already in staff and, um, but I just wanted to go over the items with you and confirm like what has been included, um, and what we could uh, potentially, um, add in terms of uh, mitigation requirements. So it looks like in general, most of the items that we're suggested are included in our documents. Um, I guess like for me, for me, I was in particular interested in the, um, emissions from, um, the heavy duty trucks. Um, I think it'd be around the construction. Um, because we've been talking a lot about um, Zev 0 emission vehicles and how they're starting to come online. Um, so the recommendation was that, um, we would, uh, require as a condition of approval all on road heavy duty trucks to be 0 emissions or meet the most stringent emissions standards, such as model year 2024 to 2026 as available. And given that this project is, could be up to 22 years, uh, you know, the assumption, the expectation is that technology will continue to improve and, um, advance. So can we require these, um, frankly, advancements as they come online. It looks like in this situation, the expectation is that they will, they are online or they will be online, so can we add that as a condition? And then just because it's, yeah, 20 over the span of the DA, um, how will we, I guess, just generalizing it, how will we be able to, um, hold the project to the highest standards that are available.

[01:31:54] Aarti Shrivastava: Council member, I'll chime in here and Lindsay can add any detail. So there were 9 recommended measures in the construction measures, and we'd like to confirm that they are incorporated into our conditions of approval. Um, and the T of 4 equipment, um, is probably the item you're you're talking about, um, for construction, or are you talking about vehicles that are used in construction?

[01:32:22] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Yes, so there are 2 items, um, there were the nine, but in addition to that, I had asked specifically about on road trucks, so for construction, and the recommendation is that we require um, 0 emissions vehicles. And then there is the off-road construction equipment that is not, um, or there are no 0 emission, um, equipment available now, but that would be the tier for, um, requirement that they use tier 4. Um, And then the other item and others go through them was the backup generators to use tier 4, um, which is the cleanest standard available, that I had read, that their, their plan is to use diesel backup generators, and I believe there's discussion going on at carb at the, uh, state air resources board to potentially eliminate that eventually, but for now, it looks like, um, that it's still allowed, that, that, you know, I would like for us to require the cleanest available if we haven't yet. And then the last item is included, which I appreciate, which is the air filtration in the, um, Logue 400 Logue project, um, that came up at 555 Middlefields. I appreciate that that's included here, but I think the 2 remaining items that we have some control over would be the heavy duty trucks and then the off-road construction equipment.

[01:33:48] Aarti Shrivastava: Um, so I, you know, we looked at the recommendations that were sent over. And we didn't, I didn't see the heavy duty trucks being 0 emissions or the, so we we went down the list that we saw. And, um,

[01:34:05] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: It is included in the email section.

[01:34:09] Aarti Shrivastava: I see. I see. Okay. Okay.

[01:34:12] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Sorry, I didn't have time. I was hoping to get this to all of my colleagues.

[01:34:17] Aarti Shrivastava: Right, right. Okay. Um, I think we're going to need a little time because this is a new one for us. Okay.

[01:34:25] Aarti Shrivastava: Um, so maybe, you know, we can, we can confer um, during, if, if, as counsel is discussing other items, um, or taking public input, um, I would get back to you. Lindsay, do you have anything to say?

[01:34:39] Lindsay Hagan: Yeah, I would like to just chime in real quick on a couple things. So, um, the 0 mission and tier 4 related equipment, um, that were identified. Um, those are not widely available. Um, and so I think it's hard sometimes to require those, the use of that equipment if they're not widely available. Um, and so I think the way that the mitigation measure has been, um, drafted, uh, it, it lays out that the tier for equipment, uh, should be used when feasible, and otherwise it has laid out, uh, that the equipment should comply with other EPA emission standards. Um, I think the other part of this is about the generators. So one of the conditions of approval does require use of generators that meet or exceed the tier 4 standards. So that has been incorporated. Um, and I just, I wanted to also, um, just to clarify that even with incorporation of, of, you know, any of these sort of additional measures, there would still be a significant unavoidable impact. Um, so wouldn't necessarily, uh, you know, change the conclusion, um, that has been outlined in the, in the ER.

[01:35:58] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Yes, which I understand in my doing research since the 555 project. Um, but my interest is to, um, to reduce the impacts as much as possible. And that was my question to the air district staff is what more could we look at requiring to mitigate. And so, and this is where, you know, perhaps I don't know if we can somehow incorporate this, but if you could share, check with air district staff, um, because they are suggesting that we require, um, does heavy duty trucks, and from my being on the board for a while, we've been talking a lot about that, and there seems to be more availability of them. So it's, you know, to the greatest extent possible. Um, and then with the generators, the suggestion, and it would be an option because, as they say, it costs and feasibility varies, but looking at, and this is kind of in relation to what we do, we're trying to do is to, um, pursue solar plus battery storage. Generators.

[01:37:09] Unknown Speaker: So council member, we have 2 items that we could follow up with you on. The 1st is the heavy duty trucks and see what's possible. And the 2nd is the backup generators. As Lindsay has confirmed. We are already, um, Um, we've already have, uh, recommendations for the off-road equipment and then, um, for the morgue filters, which are, um, included. So we'll follow up with you on that, if you could give us some time.

[01:37:40] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Great. Thank you. Thank you. How's the membership, Walter?

[01:37:47] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Hi, I just wanted to repeat a question that I put in the, um, council questions. One of the things that, um, we hear in the community, uh, as a, uh, a negative about building more housing is that we don't have adequate water supply for it. And, um, uh, I understand why people, um, go to that conclusion, but fortunately, um, modern, uh, new buildings have so much more efficiency that, um, our water supplies stretch quite far with them. But anyway, I, so I wanted to, I just want to re ask that question in public here, to have our public works department talk about the availability of water for this project, and how it's been investigated.

[01:38:41] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. Thank you, Council member Show Walter, Dawn

[01:38:47] Dawn Cameron: Cameron, Public Works director. As you noted, um, for all development projects, and particularly for this one, we do a utility impact study, and water is one of the utilities we look at. And the findings of the utility impact study that was done for this master plan project. basically indicates that our water distribution system will have sufficient capacity to serve this project. And this includes as part of this, of course, as part of our capital projects, master planning, for utility, that there are certain upgrades that we have to make to our water distribution system, to have the infrastructure to deliver the water. But we have confirmed that we will have appropriate water supply to serve this system, uh, to serve this development. And that is largely because the efficiency, uh, we have, we have saved a lot of water over the years, from our allocation, because of conservation efforts that have been successful, and because modern buildings are, um, much, much more effective. I mean, efficient than the ones that were built in the '50s and '60s.

[01:40:01] Councilmember Pat Showalter: That's correct, right?

[01:40:02] Dawn Cameron: That is correct, yes.

[01:40:04] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Okay. Just want to, I just want to get that out there, because we read letters to the editor, and that sort of thing, from time to time, and I think it's important to just always bring up that these are, you know, these things are carefully considered.

[01:40:17] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. Thank you very much. Council member committee.

[01:40:25] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Um, I had a question. Um, that kind of, um, spawns off of, um, some line of questioning that Councilman Matachek was asking. So this is to the applicant. So, um, relating to the, um, the active uses. I think in the conversations that we've had in the past, though, there's, you know, certain allocation that you are looking at providing, there would be an openness in terms of what might constitute as a small business or what might go in. And I think there was, you know, discussion about being flexibility. Um, and I don't want to go too far into comments, but I know that, you know, we have our small business action plan, our economic vitality plan that's coming forward. And I just want to confirm as we're talking about the different types of uses, um, active uses to confirm with the applicant that there was some openness in terms of what might constitute a business. Is that correct?

[01:41:30] Applicant Representative: Well, thank you for the question. I apologize. I'm not sure I fully understand the specific question that's being asked.

[01:41:36] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Sure. Sure. So I think that there, um, Kazamar Machek was asking a question related to, you know, a childcare facility, um, or, you know, something else that might go in in terms of the the active uses. And I know that there is a certain allocation that, uh, you know, is would be, kind of for a civic community space and there's other that Google is looking to program with your small business diversity plan. And my question is, in our conversations, in the past, there's been openness to what my con, you know, what type of business might go in. Um, and so I just want to confirm that there is flexibility. It doesn't all need to be a coffee shop or a grocery store, but there might be some other uses and that in the conversations I've had with all of you. There's openness, and that there might be a minority owned business that does childcare or a coworky space or something, and that there's openness, and I just wanted to confirm that.

[01:42:38] Applicant Representative: Okay, thank you for the clarification and sorry if I was being dense. I think you asked it almost the exact same way the 1st time, but okay. Yes, yes, there is openness. Um, and that's exactly what we want. We want a diverse mix of active public facing retail and community spaces. So, as we go through that outreach process, we can continue to, you know, talk with you all with the chamber with the various CBOs that are out there in the community to understand what the needs are. We obviously know that the grocery is something that's, you know, a lot of people are talking about and excited about in the area. Um, it doesn't want to be all cafes, right? It doesn't want to all be nail salons or, um, dry cleaners, right? We need that vibrant mix. So we are we are open to that conversation.

[01:43:29] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Great, thanks. And I think all of that is to say, counsel in the community will have further opportunity to give input on what the active use of spaces could be, is was my understanding.

[01:43:43] Applicant Representative: Correct. That's right. Um, there is a selection process. qualification criteria that is attached to the DA. And so by, you know, approving the DA, you're approving that process, but there will be, um, community outreach as we go along. Um, and certainly the intention is to kind of do that canvassing and continue the conversation that we have been having.

[01:44:08] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Appreciate it.

[01:44:12] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. I'm a member Libra.

[01:44:15] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Thank you, Mayor. Um, and I just wanted to confirm, so the public here is my understanding of what the rental rates would be like for, um, the community organizations or the, the small businesses within, um, the, uh, minority or, um, traditionally underserved categories.

[01:44:47] Applicant Representative: Um, sure, I'll take that. So the $35 triple net rent is an average, um, that will be applied across the full 21,000 square feet, uh, for the term of the DA. Some tenants may be lower, some may be higher. The, um, you know, really kind of the average market rent out there really depends on kind of the size and the quality of credit and all of these things, but some tenants will be will be lower. 18 to $24. Some tenants will be able to pay more. So it's hard to put a number on what a nonprofit would pay. It's really gonna be determined by a number of things, you know, what is their tenant improvement cost. What's the length of the term that they're looking for, how big of a space? Um, do they need other support? So, I can't answer specifically for, you know, a particular tenet type other than we'll work with them to try to understand their needs. But averaging out across the entire space of a cap at $35 a foot.

[01:45:52] Councilmember Sally Lieber: And so the $35 a foot comes from, that's derived from a market, uh, average for our area, or, um,

[01:46:04] Applicant Representative: Yeah, I would say arrived at. Yeah, I would say we looked at, it's below market in our kind of, um, review of comparables, which is in the mid 40s to upper, mid to upper 40s. So that 35 sits below what we would say is a market rent for a comparable space.

[01:46:26] Councilmember Sally Lieber: So it's like a 25% discount. Roughly.

[01:46:32] Applicant Representative: Yeah, roughly.

[01:46:34] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Okay. So the childcare business would, um, they'd get the 20, 25% off the highest rack rate that's out there in the public sector.

[01:46:50] Applicant Representative: On average, again, it's, we'll need to just sit down with them to understand what they're, you know, a established business that may be able to, you know, an F and B that may be able to pay more, right? Well, average that out. So, again, it's hard to say what that actual rent would be. Um, and if it truly is a small business, this is their 1st location, they're gonna need more support than if it's an established childcare, you know, not franchise, but, you know, that has multiple locations. So it's really gonna be case by case dependent.

[01:47:28] Councilmember Sally Lieber: So there would be some flexibility there in getting in uses that would promote, uh, a walkable neighborhood, uh, rather than folks needing to get in their car to go, uh, drive for, uh, say, childcare.

[01:47:49] Applicant Representative: Yes, absolutely. Um, I mean, I think just to, childcare seems to be a common theme, so just to touch on that, um, we don't think in the initial phase, um, that that would be part of the mix, but we are open to it in, you know, a a 2nd cycle of lease up. There are private open space requirements. Um, and we would need to think about how that fits in. So if there's some willingness to look at, um, modifications to the Popa at Ellis Plaza, to accommodate some of that private space, we'd be open to that. But, um, don't see that happening as part of the initial lease.

[01:48:32] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Okay, thank you.

[01:48:35] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, um, Mr. Vastuba.

[01:48:40] Mr. Vastuba: I wanted to comment on that particular, um, uh, issue. If counsel is interested in open. To having the open space in the Popa be available to the daycare if required by state licensing requirements, they can give us direction on that. Um, and that will help us um, implement any any daycare program. Um, they may provide. Um, I thought I'd just make a note of this um, when council's ready to make their final decisions.

[01:49:12] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Great, thank you. Are there any other questions? That a couple. Um, the 1st is related to the public art provided in the, in the Popa. If the Popa were uh dedicated land to the city. Uh, and we were to construct a park. We have a council policy that would require some amounts of funding for public art. Do you have a sense roughly, maybe order of magnitude, of what the value of that public art might be if we were to construct our own park there.

[01:49:58] Unknown Speaker: I can take a stab at, um, at this. I would say, you know, um, we would probably need some estimate from the, from the, um, applicant because this is so different from the parks that we typically construct. A lot of it is his hardscape and plaza and I don't know, Dawn, if you can even create an estimate.

[01:50:23] Dawn Cameron: Um, no, you're right. We would need an estimate from the applicant to see what a comparable public arts budget would be if this was a city park. However, I'd like to remind council that the way our public art policy was recently revised for CIP projects. We do set it as 2% of the construction cost. The hard construction costs, up to a maximum of 400,000. So you can see already that, um, then placing a value, I believe, of $1 million, would exceed the maximum that the city would apply for one of our own projects.

[01:51:09] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay. Thank you. That's helpful. And then a quick question related to the public art to the applicant. Um, I know you've done this in the past, so I'm, I'm hoping that this wouldn't be too much of a, uh, an imposition, but, um, would, would you be comfortable, um, providing a presentation to the visual arts committee about the work that you're doing in the POPA and, uh, the public art program that, uh, you're considering?

[01:51:41] Applicant Representative: Yes, absolutely. I mean, I think just as we look at the whole of the park network, I think it would provide useful context for the work that you all might do in Maud Park, so certainly be happy to make an informational presentation.

[01:51:59] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. And then RT already preempted my question about childcare, but thank you. Um, and then, um, I thought about asking this in advance of the meeting and I, I, in retrospect, I really should have. High level, because this is probably too much to produce right now, can, can staff provide a sense of the affordable housing projects in the pipeline and where delivery of the affordable housing on the 2 dedicated parcels might fall relative to other projects.

[01:52:35] Unknown Speaker: I'm going to ask, uh, um, if Michaela could be promoted, she's our housing manager and she could, she could help with, um, Responding to this questionnaire.

[01:52:51] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you Hopefully somebody can find her faster than I'm able to.

[01:53:05] Micaela Hellman-Tincher: Welcome

[01:53:06] Michaela Helmontincher: Good evening, council members, Michaela Helmontincher Housing and Neighborhood Services Manager. As we described in our study session in August, We have several current Nova applications in our pipelines, so that includes the La Avenida project. The Montecito Project, Lot 12, Crest view, the council just approved NoFA Funding for the Terabella project, and we have several others that we plan to bring forward that have already made applications. Um, one along, at least potentially 2 along El Camino real and um, One more in the uh, uh, on the Linda Vista, in the Linda Vista Street. So that's our current Nova pipeline. And we also have our 2 Evelyn projects that are, uh, we are expecting, so that's the VTA site, that we're doing a, um, competitive process to select a developer partner, and then the adjacent site owned by charities. And then, The next part of our efforts is these 2 um, these 2 land dedication sites that they are dedicated to the city. And, you know, trying to play some exactly in the timeline is a little bit hard, I would say, it really depends on which ones move forward at which time and when the building permits come forward for this particular project. If it, if it proceeds, but that's sort of a, a general picture of what the next 5 years look like, and then in addition to that, um, we are expecting, uh, potential other land dedication sites in the North Bay Shore area.

[01:54:43] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. And then, um, I know we were projecting a deficit, um, and we're not able to deliver all of the affordable housing in the pipeline. Um, I can't remember. Is that with the dedicated land in North Bay Shore, or, um, you know, even without those parcels, under consideration, do we still have the deficit, uh, that we would have to make that?

[01:55:12] Micaela Hellman-Tincher: The deficit that we estimated included 3 land dedication sites in North Bay Shore. So not all of the potential land dedication sites, but the 3 that are assumed to be dedicated in a more near term.

[01:55:25] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay, so if we exclude those three, which are still speculative at this point, then the deficit goes down pretty significantly. We may or may not be able to deliver all the affordable housing, but it's much more achievable, excluding those 3 parcels.

[01:55:44] Micaela Hellman-Tincher: That's correct, and I should share that, it's staff's intention to try to deliver all of the affordable housing. Um, and that's why we outlined the strategies to um, increase our funding availability in our uh, August 30th uh, study session.

[01:55:57] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay, fantastic. Thank you. Just a couple more. Um, thank you, Michaela. Uh, the, uh, community benefit package includes 1500000 in people centric funds. Um, will staff come back to council with recommendations for the expenditure? What will be the process or how we decide how to invest that money?

[01:56:28] Lindsay Hagan: Mayor, um, our intent is to work with the city manager of the city manager's office to define this based on the council's priorities and bring back, um, a set of funding options.

[01:56:42] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay, and are we estimating, you know, would that be as part of budget approval or some other process outside of the budget?

[01:56:54] Lindsay Hagan: Um, we, as soon as the, the payment is imminent, uh, will put something together so that we are, um, building in as many of the council's priorities in our recommendations.

[01:57:07] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay, thank you. And then similarly with the, uh, community benefit funding intended to provide enhanced amenities for Mod Park, um, will that, will that come back as part of, the development process for Mod Park, or, I guess the reason I'm, I'm thinking about this is we have an opportunity to do something more than just a conventional park, right? The intense, the spirit of the contribution is, a superior part, which is not yet defined, that could be, if we really wanted, if we wanted it to be. Um, you know, some, some. Uh, maybe ambitious space, right? Maybe not an aquatic facility, but more in that line, and that's a lot of work, that's going to take a lot of time to develop, when, when would be an appropriate opportunity to talk about what we want to do with that additional contribution.

[01:58:02] Lindsay Hagan: So we have thought long and hard about this. And I know Don Cameron is prepared to respond to this.

[01:58:09] Don Cameron: Well, thank you. So yes, Mod Park as a 5 acre park rises to the level of a community or city, wide park, and through that, it is expected, like, in any situation that, that we would have special and unique amenities at this park that would attract a greater use among the community than you might have for a smaller neighborhood or many park. This is going to be a city park, and therefore, it will follow the city's standard design development process, which includes robust community outreach and community meetings, working with the Parks and Recreation Commission, working with the Visual Arts Committee for the selection integration of of art. And also then, of course, bringing at the appropriate decision making points, concept designs, art, the name of the park and so on to the council for approval. Um, the $9000000 that Google is going to be providing towards the design and construction of the park. Uh, we definitely do see it helping to uh, form at least uh, fund at least one unique amenity for the park that helps make it special. We will be using the city's process, our typical process to select what those amenities would be. I'd also like to know with the community services department starting to get ready to launch a new parks and recreation strategic plan. And working on that over the next years, we would also look to that as guidance for what kind of amenities might be most desirable and useful for a part of this size in this part of the city. Therefore, that would also be a potentially guiding document.

[02:00:02] Lindsay Hagan: Also, just know, and you may have picked up on this in the development agreement and the work is, uh, staff has worked out a process that, you know, with with Google and the development team contributing $9000000 to above and beyond their parkland required, um, dedication. Um, towards the development of the park. We are very interested in working with them in partnership for the design and amenities that are in the park. So, while we will follow our standard process, and it is a city park, and final decisions will be made by council, we've worked out, you know, agreements of where they are going to be working alongside staff and helping coming up with the ideas and concepts for the design of the park, working with the community and through all of our processes.

[02:00:55] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Fantastic. Thank you. Last question. Um, is a residential stoop in active use.

[02:01:08] Michael Tymoff: No.

[02:01:10] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay, thank you. Um, any other question? Not we'll turn to public comment.

[02:01:17] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Would any member of the public on the line, like to provide comment on this item? If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press star 9 on your phone. A timer will be displayed on the screen. Um, given the number of speakers. Uh, we will uh, provide one minute and 30 seconds. And the 1st speaker is hacker dojo. Hacker dojo, are you able to unmute yourself?

[02:01:56] Ed Choudhry: Oh, sorry, hi. Ah, good evening. I'm Ed Choudhry. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council and Management. I'm the executive director of Hacker Dojo. It's a 501 C3 nonprofit tech community and Mountain View's local makerspace. Uh, we've been providing services since 2009 in the Wismouth Station. Our mission is to provide an inclusive accessible community for tech enthusiasts to learn, play, and build together. I am speaking on behalf of a community over 100 people in our community of diverse backgrounds from the area, neighboring cities. I am joining this meeting today in full support of the Middlefield Park Plan. Our community, uh, can't wait to see this plan underway. We actually are across the street from the site where the residential homes are for A are being built at 855 Maud Avenue. We look forward to seeing how we could support. We believe this initiative aligns with our mission and will enable us to provide more impact to the area. I thank you and I yield my time.

[02:02:51] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: You very much. The next speaker is Felicia Preston.

[02:03:07] Felicia Preston: Hi, good evening, honorable mayor and city council. My name is Felicia Preston. I'm a 1st period. Carpenter Apprentice in local 405. We need more opportunities like this in our backyard to be able to secure work opportunities. Without work opportunities, we apprentices will be forced to look for lower paying careers. Using apprentices and projects like this will allow us to develop skills in carpentry and use those skills to build up the community of Mountain View. Apprenticeship program success depends on apprentices being able to secure work opportunities. So please honorable mayor and city council members, support the middle field park master plan. Thank you.

[02:03:52] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. The next speaker is Joseph Lopez.

[02:04:00] Joseph Lopez: Good evening, honorable Mayor and city council. My name is Joseph Lopez. I'm a field representative for the Northern California Carpenter Union at local 405 and 944 located in San Jose. I represent over 36,000 members in Northern California, hosted 7000 of those members live right here in Santa Clara County. As a field representative, I speak for all of our members in strong support and approval of the Middle Field Park Master Plan development. As you heard from our apprentice tonight, the impact of projects in our city creates life changing results. We support this development because this opens up an opportunity to include strong language that will not only build 1,900 housing units in the community, but it will build the people within that community. This will allow construction workers, veterans, and at risk youth to begin, or continue to earn a fair wage with health benefits, not only for themselves, but their entire family. When we work, where we live, it reduces long commutes and allows us to spend those hard earned dollars back into our communities with our family. With this development team's commitment to the city of Mountain View, the Carpenters Union, residents, and our community at large. We urge you to support this project. Thank you for your time and the opportunity to speak in support of the Middlefield Park Master Plan development.

[02:05:16] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. The next speaker is Armando Murillo.

[02:05:25] Armando Murillo: Good evening, honorable mayor, and fellow council members. My name is Armando Maria. I'm a ninth period apprentice with local 405 Carpenters Union. After 4 years in the apprenticeship program. I'm nearing the point where, where I will soon be journeying out and make, this will enable me to afford to, uh, and continue to live in Santa Clara County where I was raised. You're supporting the, uh, multiple our master plan, and there's actors, and this is myself. We also have the same opportunities to grow and refine their skills through a partnership with carpenters, local 405. Keeping this project local also helps us to reduce our commute times, spend more time with our loved ones and reinvest in our local communities. For this reason, Your Honor, and council members. I urge to support the middle field park master plan.

[02:06:24] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. Thank you. Next, we'll hear from Allie Sapperman.

[02:06:34] Ali Sapirman: Good evening, Mayor Ramirez, council members and staff. My name is Ali Saberman, and I'm here on behalf of the Housing Action Coalition, a member supported nonprofit that advocates for creating more housing for all residents of all income levels to help alleviate the Bay Area in California's housing shortage, displacement, and affordability crisis. Speaking in strong support of the middle field master plan, which the housing action coalition enthusiastically endorsed. The Middlefield Master Plan will be transformative for Mountain View and ought to serve as a model of how we should be developing our communities. First, this project has excellent land use, transforming largely vacant lots and office space up to into up to 1900 new homes. The project team plans to dedicate 2.4 acres of land for the city for future affordable housing development, allowing for more affordable housing than what on-site inclusionary zoning requires. This will also serve as a critical portion of Mountain View's rena target. And without the approval of this project, mountain view will not be in a compliant housing element. Second, this plan places, desperately needed dense housing right by quality public transit. And as all of the new homes in the master plan will be placed within walking distance of VTA middle field light rail station, promoting green transportation options, and further connecting mountain view to the rest of the Bay Area. Third, the master plan includes a number of community benefits, such as art, a number of public parks and open spaces for workers and families, and projects to make the area, more bike and pedestrian friendly, many of which are going to occur during phase one of construction. For these and many other reasons, please approve the middle field park master plan without any delays.

[02:08:14] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you so much. Thank you. Next, we'll hear from Cliff Chambers.

[02:08:22] Cliff Chambers: Hi, I'm Cliff Chambers. I'm representing the Mountain View Coalition for Sustainable Planning. We previously commented, uh, before the EPC in your March, uh, study session on the master plan. We've expressed and now continue to express very strong support for the overall mixed-use development framework provided in the master plan. We're really pleased that staff and applicant have been able to address a wide range of issues. We're particularly supportive of the phasing plan, that really provides 850 market rate housing units, and a dedication of 2.4 acres. The small, uh, diversification plan is something that we really support, uh, we do have a concern over all about the delivery of the affordable housing, but that was really addressed in the conversation between Mayor Ramirez and Michaela. And we really have a great staff. We're really confident that the affordable housing will really be delivered. And then just finally, we're very supportive of the very comprehensive park networks that has been developed as part of this plan.

[02:09:49] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. Thank you, Cliff. The next speaker is Lisa Moore.

[02:09:59] Lisa Moore: Yes, uh, thank you very much to uh, the mayor and uh, council members. My name is Lisa Moore, and I'm the president of the Wagon Wheel Neighborhood Association. So 1st I'd like to thank uh, Google and Lindley's for the good communications uh, that they have had with our neighborhood. They have engaged just on many occasions. And there are several elements of this master plan that will benefit, um, neighborhood, neighboring communities such as ours. And these include the new Mod Park, the ground floor, retail, and pedestrian area, and Ellis Park. Park. And then also, this will start the buildout of the East Whisman precise plan specification of bike and pedestrian paths and access. And that will definitely benefit our neighboring community. And then for the broader community of Mountain View, um, certainly, uh, they, many will benefit from the two sites designated for affordable housing. So, in summary, I support the approval of this Middlefield Park master plan and encourage counsel to do that. So thank you.

[02:11:21] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. The next speaker is Jim Pollard.

[02:11:29] Jim Pollard: Hi, Mayor Lucas and Council members. I hope everything's doing well. Uh, so my wife and I have lived in the Whisman Station community for 25 years, amazingly. We closed escrow on our house in September of '97. So I want to speak just as a member, as a longtime member of the Whisman community. Um, and one aspect of the project that I'm sure you all noticed, but wasn't pointed out directly, is that there's very good connectivity between the, um, Middlefield Park master plan in our community. And that's because, sort of, the node of our community is pyramid park, which is the new three acre park that just opened this past summer, not the node, the central focus. And there's an existing pedestrian bike trail along the west side of the light rail tracks that runs from Pyramid Park up the middle field. And then, you know, directly across Middlefield is the future Ellis Park. So it's gonna be, and Pyramid Park has proved to be spectacularly popular since it opened. If you go out there on a summer evening, literally, there's 100 people out there, a lot of young families with little kids. So it's gonna be absolutely wonderful for us to have Ellis Park and Mod Park. And they're just, like, less than a 10, or less than two tenths of a mile from pyramid park. So I encourage...

[02:13:03] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: My apologies, Jim. You've exhausted your time, but we really appreciate, uh, the encouraging, uh, information about pyramid Park and its utilization. Uh, the next speaker is Rainy Fisher.

[02:13:20] Rani Fischer: Good evening, Mayor Ramirez and council members. I am Roddy Fisher representing the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society. Our organization supports Google's Middlefield Park master plan. The plan realizes the vision of the East Westman precise plan for innovation and sustainability, for increased canopy and native vegetation, and for ecological connectivity and resiliency. We appreciate the effort to transform an area that today consists of parking lots and older office buildings into a mixed use neighborhood with parks, trees, and habitat. We believe Middlefield Park will align with mountain views biodiversity strategy. And sustainability goals, and contribute to the broader ecological and human health, the city and its residence. Thank you for your leadership.

[02:14:20] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. The next speaker is Stephen Goldstein.

[02:14:28] Stephen Goldstein: Thank you very much, city council, for your time. Can you hear me?

[02:14:33] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes, we can.

[02:14:34] Stephen Goldstein: Okay, my apologies. I hate to bring some really, uh, interesting perspective here. Recently, the new report regarding San Antonio and the way that Meta has literally just evacuated those offices after such a short period of time, unfortunately, indicates a major instability regarding any long term planning that has been occurring here. And what I'm really greatly concerned about is the fact that, uh, Google slash alphabet, and amongst a lot of the other tech companies are about to actually undergo a major cost cutting, uh, effort, and it's gonna wind up with a lot of people literally losing their jobs. There's been recent reports about how much, uh, Twitter has done this already. And so I'm greatly concerned that this project will go forward. It will be completed like San Antonio, but then, unfortunately, San Antonio is now gonna be relying on rework and not on any long term, uh, uh, reliable office use. I have a feeling, this situation could wind up, unfortunately, becoming another San Antonio project, and that could wind up being very detrimental to the city of Mountain View. All I'm saying is, you're gonna have to be a little bit more careful, and do not rely on infinite demand or regarding the future in this area.

[02:16:02] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much, Stephen. The next speaker is Derek Anderson.

[02:16:19] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Derek, are you able to unmute yourself?

[02:16:34] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Derek, one more time. Are you able to unmute yourself?

[02:16:43] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay, so we will proceed to the next speaker. David Binney.

[02:16:53] David Bini: Yes, thank you. Good evening, Mayor Ramirez and council members. My name is David Beanie and I'm here representing over 35,000 men and women of the Santa Clara and San Manito County's Building and Construction Trades Council. The Middlefield Park Master Plan and the projects within it are important to the local construction workforce, as well as their families. They're important because Google has chosen to be a part of the high road development and construction community. Google has made a commitment to the building Trades Council, that the projects within this master plan, and, in fact, all others currently contemplated by Google will support apprenticeships that lead to lifelong, family supporting careers. And that the construction will rely on union contractors paying union wages and benefits to members of our unions. Outside of our immediate interests, we also support this plan because it is the right type of development for Mountain View. The plan takes an existing office park and transforms it into a walkable neighborhood with new employment opportunities and additional tax revenue for the city. The projects within this plan will be assets to Mountain View on a number of levels. And on behalf of the members and unions of my council, I urge you to approve the Middlefield Park Master plan. Thank you.

[02:18:08] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. The next speaker is Beth Fisher.

[02:18:16] Beth Fisher: Yes. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor and the city council members. My name is Beth Fisher, and I am with the Santa Clara and San Benito County's Building Trades Council, and we strongly support the Middlefield Park master plan. Middlefield Park will bring 1000s of construction jobs for the region's skilled workforce, with union wages and benefits to support working families. We applaud Middlefield Park's commitment to new housing, 20% of which will be affordable housing. This provides a more equitable and inclusive housing opportunity in Mountain View, meeting the need for below market rate units, and essential supportive services for residents. This development will transform an office park into a walkable neighborhood with open green spaces, as well as employment opportunities, added tax revenue, restaurants and support services. In addition, Middlefield Park will include 3 miles of walking and cycling trails and a commitment to native plant species. It has been well documented that time spent in green spaces, nature brings health benefits such as increased physical and mental wellness. Finally, Middlefield Park also envisions new opportunities for small businesses and nonprofits. We wholeheartedly support this project and urge your support as well.

[02:19:25] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. Thank you. The next speaker is Kenneth Javier Rosales.

[02:19:39] Kenneth Javier Rosales: Hello, can you hear me?

[02:19:41] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes, we can.

[02:19:43] Kenneth Javier Rosales: Good evening, uh, Mayor Ramirez, by Samir Hicks and members of the city council. My name is Kenneth Tag Rosales. And I'm the planning senior associate with SV at home, a nonprofit organization. That advocates for affordable housing across Santa Clara County. Excuse me. We would like to thank staff and city council for their diligent work and leadership to bring provision of the East Swisman area, into full fruition, through the Middlefield Park, master plan. As discussed in our letter submitted to you. We are in strong support of staff, and the school then leased team's proposal of Middlefield Park. It lays out a plan to completely transform the current sloth of suburban style office parks and parking lots into a vibrant, well-connected neighborhood, rich places for people of all incomes to enjoy, such as parks, shops, and transit. Where most places, we are most pleased that the Middlefield Park master plan enables 20% of new units to be 100% deed restricted affordable homes through land dedications, enabling the full 20% that will come to the city with valuable site improvements. Millfield Park will play a significant role in the growth of Mountain View in the next decade as it feeds into the city's housing element arena obligations. We are confident that all parties, including the city council, are committed to actualizing the vision of the middle field park. And we are excited about its role in taking the next step to implementing the East Wisman precise plan. Thank you so much. Have a good night.

[02:21:10] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. The next speaker is Marley.

[02:21:17] Marley Smith: Hi. Can you hear me?

[02:21:20] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes, we can.

[02:21:21] Marley Smith: Okay, hi, mayor and council. My name is Marley Smith. I'm the director of transportation policy for Silicon Valley Leadership Group. And on behalf of Silicon Valuation Group. I'm writing. I am, I'm calling in support of the Middlefield Park Master Plan that will implement the city's vision to transform outdated and underutilized office buildings and parking lots into a walkable neighborhood with new homes, parks, amenities, and jobs. Middlefield Park will catalyze the broader East Wishman area into a sustainable transit oriented neighborhood with jobs and housing using the smart growth principles in the city's East Wishman precise plan. This plan proposes up to 1900 homes, including 20% affordable, which will be delivered by dedicating land in city of Mountain View. The redevelopment of Middlefield Park will spur with the creation of 1000s of well paying jobs and provide economic opportunity to small businesses while adding significant additional annual tax revenue to the city, county, and school districts. Thank you for your time and we urge you support this project.

[02:22:23] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. Thank you very much. The next speaker is Jose Chavez.

[02:22:32] Jose Roberto Chavez: Hello, can you hear me?

[02:22:35] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes, we can.

[02:22:36] Jose Roberto Chavez: Uh, hi, um, who do you have any uh, uh, mayor Ramirez and uh, commissioners and members of this uh, uh, city council? My name is Jose Roberto Chavez. And I've been a resident of Mountain View for 21 years. I'm also a member of the Carpenter's 405 local union in San Jose. Uh, since 2015. The Carpenters Union has made a big difference in my life for many reasons. I have been able to give my family great health coverage and financial support. It also offers, offers me a retirement savings plan and an option to have my 401 k return plan. In addition, working as an apprentice. I gain, gave me access for a 44 year training program that I have recently completed. And I am now a certified journalman. He has also helped me negotiating better pay for older workers, which has been has benefited me and my family. Furthermore, it also provides a safe workplace for constantly implementing safety measurements for workers for the environment and the environment. It has also contribute in finding me jobs closer to home. So I have flexibility of picking up my daughter from school, which also allows me to spend more time with my family, before, uh, uh, with my family. Before becoming a member, I struggle in finding affordable health insurance for me and my family. In short, the carpenters union has been a blessing for me and my entire family. For these reasons, I ask you, please approve the media field park master plan. Thank you so much for the opportunity.

[02:24:18] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: You very much. The next speaker is Derek Anderson.

[02:24:23] Derek Anderson: Good evening, city council. My name is Derek Anderson. I am a 5th period apprentice in the local 4 or 5 Carpenters Union. The union has provided great benefits in Liverpool wages to support myself and my family. The union also provides me with schooling that allows. Excuse me, that allows for me to gain knowledge and develop skills to become a bear carpenter. I have, I've had to travel jobs sites, um, such as San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, and Sacramento. Um, having a project like this, would be great due to the fact, It'll give me enough time. to go home and spend time with my family. Also projects like this ensures that contractors, hire apprentices, and are doing their part to build our community workforce. So I asked that. I support and I ask that you support the middle field master plan. Middlefield Park Master Plan. excuse me.

[02:25:26] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. See no other members of the public wishing to speak. We will return to council for deliberation and action, and I'll note that a motion to approve the recommendation, should also include reading the title of the ordinance and resolutions attached to the report, uh, and there are 7 of them. So lots of reading. Um, if I may start, um, with a quick question to staff about process, um, if there are, um, modifications to the staff recommendations. Uh, will we need to seek, uh, any consent from the applicant? And if that's the case, then um, what would be the best way to do that?

[02:26:15] Unknown Speaker: Mayor, I would suggest that, um, we tabulate them as as they go, and then we can identify the ones that need applicant consent. Some of these, we can clarify, some of them, we can include, so it all depends on the um, on the amendments.

[02:26:34] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay, thank you. So I will count on staff, assistance with that. Any member of the council like to start us off? Once a member, I'll be Koga.

[02:26:51] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, mayor, and um, I just want to, again, thank Steph. Thank the applicant. Thank the community for your extensive, um, involvement in this process. It's been a long time in coming. And, um, overall, I'm pleased with the outcome. Um, when we long time ago. in a galaxy far, far away, but it was actually in Mountain View. Um, when we were talking about Ace Wisman. Um, we originally we didn't have that much housing um, in the precise plan. Um, and it was later that we, um, the council at that time and after deliberation, and after, um, seeing the increasing need for housing, um, felt that this was actually the ideal place for more housing. And really, um, I mean, this even goes back before my time, I remember hearing council members say that this is, East Lisbon is really the area where you could, um, have an ideal, uh, work um environment. And so, um, I'm pleased that, um, we've, uh, are seen, I think, that we're seeing the start of that. with this Google project. Um, you know, no project is perfect, and I know that, um, there's some, obviously have, there's some compliances that need to be made. Um, you know, I, I, I, I've heard the community, um, some of the concerns about affordable housing, um, I too have those concerns. Um, you know, I appreciate very much appreciate the land dedication because land is always a challenge when we're looking at affordable housing projects. Um, but I guess the other piece to that is, and I would attribute it to our success in being able to, um, get out, no fuzz, to build more affordable, 100% affordable housing projects that are, um, our fund has been, uh, depleting. And so that's the challenge is to find future funding to be able to actually build the units on these dedicated lands. And, um, you know, I would hope that we can continue to work on that together, um, with the applicant, um, as well as, um, other, you know, a community. And, um, my sense is, and I'm, you know, I'm gonna take a leap of faith here, um, that there will be funding opportunities on the horizon. Um, it may slow down a bit with the economy the way it is, but, um, I think that, you know, as you know, um, I've been a part of the Bay Area housing finance authority and discussing a regional housing measure, and I hope that that does come to fruition in the near future. And if it does, I think there will be funding opportunities for Mountain View and these projects. So, I'm just, I'm going to take a leap of faith here and, um, and, um, just, you know, hope that, that, um, the potential. I believe the potential is there and I'm going to, um, just, you know, hope that it comes to fruition. Um, as I mentioned, uh, you know, of course, my interest in air quality, um, it's always, it is a challenge for me to vote on overriding considerations, um, since 555 middle field project. I've done more research and, um, and to understand the situation at hand better, um, I think that, you know, the best we can do is to try to incorporate as many, um, mitigations as possible. And, and as I mentioned, and I guess this is where I would, you know, um, maybe even a question to staff that I asked earlier is, how do we, um, continue to monitor so as advancements occur, technological advancements occur, can we, can, can we? Can we, you know, require those next level, um, equipment or vehicles, um, to lower the emissions, um, the GHD mission or the, actually, all of the different emissions. Um, that was really the question, like, I'm, I'm hoping. I'm assuming that this is not, you know, stagnant that this is it, but we approve tonight, but we can continue to require the highest um, level of uh, protections and air quality. If I if staff can answer that, I would appreciate it.

[02:31:31] Unknown Speaker: So I've had a chance to, um, talk to Lindsay as well as discuss this with the applicant. And, um, the EIR itself makes the assumption that there will be better, um, more, more environmentally friendly equipment and and vehicles in the future. So it builds in that ability to do that. Um, if, if counsel wishes to kind of extend it to say, where feasible, they will use that. We can, we can add that as a qualification for the, um, for the heavy duty trucks. Um, for the for the generators and the equipment. We believe that our, um, uh, it was just an option or an alternative and that's already been provided in the AIR. So we're only recommending, um, if, if the council wishes that they could, um, just tweak that 0 emission, the, on road heavy duty trucks to be used during construction. Um, cell be 0 emission where, or meet the uh, current mill stringent emission standards where feasible.

[02:32:46] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. Yeah, and I actually, I appreciate that. I support it. I would actually change one word. Um, and I think that was what uh, air district staff was suggesting it, um, not just feasible, but available. So, um, you know, feasible, feasible, it becomes subjective, and, um, I would like to, you know, be, require what is available on, on what's on.

[02:33:12] Unknown Speaker: Yeah, typically we say available and feasible because for example, um, um, it could, I don't know, require, it could be 10 times as much because it's the last, you know, truck available in North America. We don't know, but typically those are, those are the 2 words that we use to make sure that they're going to use it to the extent that you can get them and they're feasible to get them. So, um, essentially, we'd say to extend commercially available and feasible. Um, the on-road heavy duty trucks would um, will be 0 emission used during construction, or then meet the um, then current most emission standard. So that allows for the time effect of improvements.

[02:33:55] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: And I, and I assume, well, that, um, as these improvements come online, they'll probably become part of, um, you know, regulations anyway. So, um,

[02:34:06] Unknown Speaker: Right, and it'll be more available and feasible because of that.

[02:34:10] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: yeah Okay, great. Um, so yeah, so, um, I think that's the best we can do now, um, and, um, I mean, I, I, I was, I felt more comfortable too, like the air, um, the sensitive receptor issue. Um, it seems like, um, that's been, uh, addressed and and I think just the, having more distance from the sensitive receptors obviously helps and the, the fact that they, the, uh, future tenants can, you know, open their windows at some point during the day. I think is really helpful. I just want to make sure that, you know, these are, um, realistic expectations and I think this is much more realistic. So, you know, I appreciate the amenities. Of course, and I think that's what the what this project brings is a benefit to the already existing neighborhoods in the surrounding areas. Um, you know, my hope, my deep hope is because simply because I've heard it from, um, folks, the neighbors in in the area, um, is for something like a grocery store, but just being able to add more amenities, um, to this part of the city, I think, is is really, um, you know, going to be beneficial to, um, the neighborhoods there. So, I appreciate that. And, um, so, yeah, I, I, I was concerned about the phasing in, in the sense of, you know, what happens if certain phases never come to fruition, but I think that, um, that the phasing has been improved in terms of what's being built at what and, and if, you know, part, the, the tail end doesn't go in, it seems like will at least be able to have some, a complete neighborhood. Um, so I appreciate those improvements as well. But again, I think this has been an iterative process with a lot of community involvement. Um, it's pretty amazing to see so many people, um, supportive. I didn't hear that many who weren't. Um, of course, you know, the economy will is slowing down and that will affect, um, the the progress, but I think that was probably partially why the DA is the way it is, um, set up the way it is. So, um, I um, will be supporting the motion. And if you need me to read the motion, I'd be happy to do that too. Thank you.

[02:36:39] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. Council member show Walter.

[02:36:44] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes, kind of following up a little bit on what council member, um, Abbe Koga said, a lot of times, um, in, in environmental parlance, the term best management, practicable, is used, and practicable, encompasses what's practic, you know, what's practical, practical, and what, um, is feasible. And, um, uh, I think that that's the spirit of what we're interested in here, um, is the best, you know, the best method that's practicable. Because we don't want to stop this. We want it to go forward, but we want the safeguards to be as strong as they can reasonably be. And then the other thing I'd like to say about this, that I think we can never forget, is, um, or we don't want to ever neglect, is the importance of communicating, when the, um, the equipment that creates the air quality is being used. I mean, it's not gonna be used every day on these sites or even, maybe even, you know, for months at a time. There will be periods when it's used and other periods when it's not. So, um, I would hope that the applicant would be willing to communicate to the, um, uh, to, you know, to the sensitive receptors, um, when it's going to be a problem. We talked about that a little bit in 555 Middlefield about how, you know, after the machinery's turned off, you know, there's, like, an hour, and then, you know, air quality normally reverts to ambient, and so it's okay again. So I think that communication is really important as well. And I'd like that to be, um, you know, be included. And, um, the spirit of the best practicable methodologies that we can, um, put in. And then, uh... But basically, I, too, am, um, am part of the choir here, who is singing the praises of this process. I I don't know how many community meetings I have been part of over the last three years, where, um, uh, when Lisa and Google has made a presentation about this project, one part of it or another. I would certainly think it's, it's certainly upwards of 10, and might be 20. I mean, they, they, it really, um, reached out and communicated, and listened to people, and that, that does, that's much appreciated. But also, I think it's produced a better project. And, um, that's that's great for all of us. I have some, um, healthy skepticism about, uh, how hard it will be to produce the affordable housing, but at the same time, I I have faith that if anybody can make it work, the city of Mountain View can, we have an incredible track record of producing affordable housing projects, and we have a staff that's really expert at doing it, and I think that, um, you know, those are... those are two things that make, um, it is, it's as likely as we can do it as anybody. And the land dedication is a huge step in the right direction. So, so I'm hopeful, and, um, and I also hope that not really as part of this item, but maybe something we would talk about in our work plan. is advocacy. We might do, on the state and federal level, about things like improving the tax credit system, um, and, you know, other things that would make more affordable housing money available that we could put to use on, you know, on this project and other ones. But all in all, I'm really delighted with this project. One of the attributes that hasn't been talked about too much that, that I think, um, is, uh, is exciting, is the idea that, that all of the, uh, the multifamily units will be mapped for condos. They're gonna start out as rental units, but they're gonna be mapped for condos. And one of the things that's been a problem in our community is sort of entry level ownership opportunities, and that's what condos provide here. So I'm really excited to see that that's been included. Another thing, I think, is quite interesting, is the idea of the district utility. And, um, it sounds like that's a good possibility for the future. It isn't necessarily a promise, but it's a good possibility, and it's something I, um, you know, I'm very, uh, glad to see considered here. So, um, That's my comments at the moment. Thanks very much.

[02:41:46] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. Council member Kame.

[02:41:49] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Great, thanks, Mayor. Um, so, I I have comments, but, um, I heard council member Abbe Kuga say she was happy to make the motion, and I didn't know if I should 2nd it, uh, if she wanted to make formally make the motion, if I should make the motion. Um, but I Before I make my comments, I just wanted to ask. Not that I want to read all 7 of them, but wanted to ask Kelsey and Rob Koget 1st through you. Um, so.

[02:42:19] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Uh, would it be okay to go through the, uh, council and then we'll come back to council member.

[02:42:26] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Yeah, okay, okay. Sorry. Um, all right. So I'm happy to just make comments then. I wasn't clear if we were like going forward with an action or if we were just doing a round of comments. So it sounds like we're just going through and doing comments now. Is that correct? Okay. All right. Thanks for clarifying. All right, so, um, a couple different things. One, I think tonight's really exciting. Uh, we have been talking about, um, you know, planning out our community, 1st a decade ago through the general plan that led to these different precise plans, right? And uh, this project is out of a lot of work that many of us did related to the East Wisman um, precise plans. So I'm really thrilled, um, to see all of this hard work come to fruition, especially when we were really innovative in how we as a council went forward with the East Wism precise plan, particularly the the job's housing, um, linkage there. So, um, I just want to to acknowledge how exciting it is. Want to take, uh, thank staff and the applicant in our community for, um, their active participation in the process. Um, I have lived in the area for many years now in the in the Wisman area, North Wisman, and now, um, South Wisman, and, um, this is my, this is my community. So I, for me, I think that's what makes it doubly exciting. Um, and I think the community meeting that was held where they had storyboards and people were able to put post-its and really acknowledge what they wanted. There was a survey component. So what we're seeing tonight is actually community led and by our residents, and I feel like that is what makes me confident in being supportive of the project in the direction. Um, so what I think also is important is councils talked a lot about wanting to have flexibility. Um, I don't think many of us thought we'd have to navigate the pandemic, right? And now we are navigating, I think, uncertain times, um, in our economy, in our workforce, and it's wonderful to see an employer actively doubling down in our community. So um, some comments and some things that I'd like to think about. Um, are when it comes to the active uses for the civic and community spaces, I'd really like us to be thinking about and hopefully be able to do some studies in terms of bringing city services outside of just the core of downtown. I think if we're looking at 40 acre parcels here in North Bay Shore, and kind of creating more nodes in our city. We really need to think about expanding city services besides just in downtown. So that would be something that I'm hoping we can look at with the active uses for civic and community, you know, whether that's a library annex or a public safety substation. Um, I think as we change and grow, we need to be thinking about that, and it will also, um, ultimately help us reduce our, you know, greenhouse gas emissions in our in our carbon footprint in terms of not needing to leave, our our homes to get those critical city services and be able to provide them. Um, and I'm really excited about the community benefit and just my questions earlier. Or about wanting to make sure that there's flexibility. I think that it's heartening to hear that there's gonna, there will be conversations with our chamber who's been working closely with our small business community in particular. Um, working with our economic development, uh, department, and part of it is the city has is working on many different plans, no need to, I think, reinvent the wheel. Um, happy that Google and Lenleys have been working on this in other, I would say, worldwide cities, but it'll be the 1st kind of bringing it into the Bay Area. So I think this could be a really great opportunity. And I think when I was asking about alternate uses, I run by the Ravella, almost every day, and there is empty retail space in the Ravella on Ferguson, and if council is aware of that. So, you know, my biggest concern is that we make sure that we are providing, yes, community spaces, but they will be activated and activated. And I think part of it is being flexible in terms of who could be in what we're considering a business. So I'd love the umbrella to be nice and wide. Um, when we're talking about open space. The only thing that I'd like to highlight, and I've talked to stuff a little bit about this, is the location of Gateway Park. There is a slip lane at Ferguson and Mod. So as a pedestrianer, when I'm running, I love kind of being in this area at light industrial because there aren't a lot of vehicles. So, um, it makes it nice to run and connect to Stevens Creek Trail. However, I could see potential conflicts. And of course, right now, um, any type any type of traffic studies going to show that there's no conflict, but, um, the, it's not a three-way stop at, uh, what is it? Mod, and... Ooh, I see the intersection. But there, there's, it's not a three-way stop, and so I, I know that that's going to be put in. Um, but the, but the slip lane turn from Monte Ferguson, where the park would be is something that I'd love to see kind of more infrastructure and a crosswalk there. Um, and that kind of goes into connectivity. I would say, there are many different parcels out in this area. And there's the trail that goes right along the, the VTA tracks and, It, um, we're looking at connecting to the other side of, of Ellis, to the, through the Google Quad. And I know that, um, the applicants talked about making sure that there's connectivity so that bicyclist pedestrians, um, can get around easily. So I want to make sure that we are um, continuing to do that. Um, related to the master plan, um, EIR and some of the concerns. I'm really heartened that we're, it'll be, uh, lead platinum, NP, and that the Miramar development, um, we're, we're not sure of the, the timeline on that. And so some of the, um, concerns, I'm not, you know, hopefully in an ideal world, the construction might happen in tandem are close to tandem, and so we won't need to necessarily be worrying about the, the impacts to the potential residents that could live there. So, um, those are some of my, um, comments and look forward to when we can vote on the motion.

[02:49:10] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thanks. Very much. Council member Mattachek.

[02:49:20] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Um, so many thought that uh, this area would be uh, a better place for substantial redevelopment and substantial housing than other parts of the city. And that's because this area has more infrastructure than, say, North Bay Shore. Um, but clearly, a lot is needed to transform East Wisman into a very vibrant neighborhood. But I think we're seeing that in this plan. But I don't want to estimate the amount of effort that this is going to take and the amount of time that this is going to take. Um, I watched the EPC meeting on this topic, and um, there was quite a bit of discussion about the, uh, affordable housing. And I'm actually fine with the proposed land dedication. Um, and the reason is because that gives the city and the affordable housing developer complete control, really, over how it's developed. We get to decide the unit mix. And um, all kinds of other things. And I agree with the comment about, you know, city staff, um, and the city of Mountain View have done an incredible job of producing affordable housing. And, You know, not everything's totally worked out yet, but I have confidence that we will work it out, and it will come to fruition, so I'm not too worried about that. Um, I do want to point out that, uh, You know, we should really do all studio and one bedroom units, so we meet our arena numbers. Um, but on the other hand, that's not the right thing to do for the community because we know there's demand for larger units. Um, but it just highlights one of the major flaws of Rena, because it's incentivizing us to do something other than meet the community needs. But again, none of this has to be decided tonight. Um, I appreciate the new park and the possibility of more retail, especially a grocery store. Um, this part of Mountain View really needs more neighborhood serving retail. As a resident of the area. Um, it will be great to have more right around the corner. I um, I don't really like doing statements of overriding considerations. Um, while this project has some similarities to 555 Middlefield. I do think it is a bit different, um, but it's still uncomfortable, um, doing statements of overriding considerations. Um, but I appreciate the input from council member of the Koga. And, um, you know, we do need to keep an eye on what Buckmed and others are doing and incorporate that into the plans even before it becomes, uh, state law. Um, because it is affecting Or it's addressing the health of the community. I guess I would say. Um, I, uh, as a member of the A-Luck, uh, airport land use commission. Um, I appreciate that the master plan says that it will comply with the Moffat Field. Comprehensive land use plan. I specifically looked for that. Um, and I will be supporting this tonight. Thanks.

[02:52:39] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. Council member Lieber.

[02:52:42] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Thank you, Mayor. I'm going to keep this very brief, since my colleagues have mentioned all the points that I wanted to raise. Um, but I think that this is going to uh, be a wonderful place to live. And uh, serve the residents who are there as well as uh, the neighboring neighborhoods. And, um, as was mentioned by others, I am going to be very keen to see that, uh, the uses are actually filled in, and available as an amenity for that part of our city. And I also, um, believe that, uh, we will need to look at spreading out our city services, uh, such as the library. Um, I, my expectation right now is that, uh, childcare will be an amenity that's, uh, available there, and, um, that it will not just be for Google or alphabet, uh, employees, but then it will be for all of the the community members. And I think that this raises a wonderful opportunity for us to go out and work to make those affordable housing deals on the land that will be provided. And I think that Mountain View can really be a leader in resolving some of the dysfunctions between the state agencies through legislation. So I look forward to working on that, and very pleased to see this project, get to the step, uh, it is really setting a new pace in terms of working with organized labor. And that is where we need to be as a community, no matter how much affordable housing we do or other kinds of supports, like subsidized childcare, we will never, ever catch up if people are getting low wages. So, I think that, uh, having high quality construction, and living wages is is absolutely critical to our community. So I'm very glad to hear from all the apprentices, as well as the leadership, who, uh, turned out tonight, and, um, also in terms of Google and lend lease, uh, they're working with the labor community, uh, in good faith. I very much appreciate. So thank you. Thank you very much.

[02:55:21] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: I've got a couple of comments, but mostly echoing what my colleagues have already said. Uh, so 1st uh, things to staff are doing the significant amount of work associated with preparing this master plan, um, and also uh, to the applicant for, for proposing a plan that helps us implement the East Wisman precise plan. Um, it's very exciting, and I know we're all looking forward to seeing it fully implemented, but, um, as, uh, I, I think it was council member manager, said, it'll take a lot of time. It'll be, it'll take a tremendous amount of effort. Um, you know, this is the easy part, saying, yeah, executing it is an entirely different thing. Um, a couple of the things I, I'd like to emphasize, uh, council number, uh, both very eloquently about the need for civic spaces, uh, serving uh, probably the fastest growing area of our city. Uh, and so I, I completely agree that to the extent we're able to, um, utilize this space, um, the active uses that are being proposed. Uh, you know, to some extent, the public lands that is, uh, going to be made available with the dedication, uh, to achieve some of those goals. I think we ought to do everything we can to make space for a, a library branch or, um, you know, what, whatever additional public services may be necessary to help serve, the community that will be living here. Uh, so I'd, I'd love to strategize over time, how we might be able to achieve that. We just haven't really had that conversation to any significant degrees of counsel. Um, so that's um, that's a priority. And then, uh, several members of the council I've talked about, childcare, and I wanted to, uh, see if the maker of the motion and a majority of the council would support what, uh, assistant city manager, Shravastuba had proposed, which was to allow for some flexibility. Uh, to make possible, uh, childcare facility or use, um, knowing that we're going to need some, uh, private open space. I believe in compliance with state law. Um, so I see your hand up, um, RT, did you want to speak to that?

[02:57:44] Assistant City Manager Aarti Shrivastava: I do. Thank you, Mayor. Um, we've had a little bit of chance to confer and look at, um, the requirements of a Popa. Um, and we have 2 options. We're not exactly sure what a daycare will require because it all depends on the type of daycare and the state licensing requirements. One option may allow the the open area to be shared by members of the public where the daycare. Uh, toddlers or kids can, um, use a tot lot, for example, right? So in that case, we can set up a framework that says, they're allowed to share and they don't have to provide their own separate space, but if the requirements say it has to be fenced off and exclusively for this use, Then, basically, we will say, okay, we'll allow that, but then the applicant will just have to pay that amount of credit in Parkland fees because now it's no longer qualifies as a popa. So it gives a couple of options. It sets a framework, and then based on the framework, the applicant can decide what kind of daycare they can allow. So we're suggesting creating it. So as we go through the uses and the PCPs, we have that framework to use and we don't have to come back to council for direction on that.

[02:59:10] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay, that's helpful. And then, uh, council member Lieber raised a good point. If we did that, I would want to ensure that that space is accessible to the public and not reserved for, uh, you know, Google or alphabet employees. So is that a con, if, if the council supports this, is that a condition that we could impose? Um.

[02:59:34] Assistant City Manager Aarti Shrivastava: Yeah, I mean, I, I would say that if it's all part of the active, active use definition and neighborhood serving definition. It's not required. Because that is the implication for all the uses that are active. If Google, or the residential development, wanted to corner a certain feature for their own use. Staff would not define it as active use neighborhood serving. So we don't believe that particular condition is necessary. Um, if the intent is, as we said, the community benefit program, if they want to provide it somewhere else under a parking garage or something, that's their prerogative, but it wouldn't be qualifying as an active use.

[03:00:21] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay, thank you. That's helpful. I hope we don't see too many childcare spaces in underground garages. Um, I, um, So I'm comfortable with, uh, the recommendations. I do hope that, uh, we, we can incorporate some flexibility for childcare. The only other thing I'll say is, um, I don't want to give up on the dream uh, of inclusionary. Um, uh, I, I, I support the land education, um, the reasons listed in the staff report are compelling, uh, deeper levels of affordability. Um, as council number matter check said, we get to control the land and guarantee affordability and perpetuity. Um, but, uh, I had a, a meeting with, with, um, some individuals who, who live in affordable housing, and we talked a little bit about this, and, uh, even they had said, there, there's a level of discomfort with having, a building where affluent people live, and then the building where the low income people live, and uh, they had expressed uh, a strong interest in, an inclusionary, truly inclusionary housing. Um, so I, I, I do hope that we continue to look for opportunities to, um, to provide, you know, for socioeconomically, uh, integrated communities. Uh, so that's everything I have to say. Um, Council member, Abby Koka. Does you want to um, make the motion?

[03:01:38] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mayor. Yes, I'd be happy too. Um, I guess it does clarification. Do I need to add, it looks like it might be under 7 this, um, issue of allowing flexibility of the use of purpose or is that?

[03:01:54] Assistant City Manager Aarti Shrivastava: Yeah, we're, we're actually crafting that, um, for, for council. So, um, just give us a few minutes and you can read the recommendations.

[03:02:03] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Okay. Um, and I mean, add a one, a couple of words to one, which I shouldn't, should be fine. It's basically a white council number. She'll Walter was mentioning about best available, um, and I would say best available in feasible mitigation measures, so, um, let me start with number, uh, so I will make a motion too. One, adopt a resolution of the city council, the city of Mountain View, certifying the Middlefield Park Master Plan, supplemental environmental impact report. Adopting California environmental quality act findings related to environmental impact, mitigation, measures, and alternatives, and adopting a statement of overwriting considerations. Um, best available and feasible mitigation measures and a mitigation monitoring and reporting program to be read entitled only for the reading wave. Number two, introduce an ordinance of the city of Mountain View, approving a development agreement for the middle field part master plan project, generally located at the northeast corner of Ellis Street, and East Middlefield Road, and north of West Maud Avenue, between Logue Avenue and Clyde Avenue, Mountain View, California, to be read entitled only for their reading waived, and set a 2nd reading for December 13, 2022. Three, adopt a resolution of the city council, the city of Mountain View, approving a master plan to construct up to 1900 residential units, 100,317,000 square feet of office R and D, 50,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space, 6.97 acres of public parks and 2.8 acres of privately owned, publicly accessible open space, in an optional private district utility system, and allocate bonus floor FAR. At 397,936 square feet of residential and 622,925 square feet of non-residential on an approximately 40 acre site, generally located at the northeast corner of Ellis Street, and East Middlefield Road, and north of West Maud Avenue, between Mill Avenue and Clyde Avenue, within the East Wisdom Scheisplan, to be read entitled only for the reading waved. Number four, adopt a resolution of the city council, the city of Mountain View, approving a vesting tentative map to create up to 18 knots up to 1900 residential condominium lots in up to 140 vertical subdivision lots in on a 40 acre master plan area, generally located at the northeast corner of Ellis Street and East Middlefield Road, and north of West Maud Avenue, between Logue Avenue and Clyde Avenue, to be written entitled only for the reading rate. Five, adopt a resolution of the city of Council, the city of Mountain View, ordering the vacation of Street, Right Away, and Public Eastments, within the Middlefield Park Master Plan, on a 40 acre site, generally located at the northeast corner of Ellis Street and East Middlefield Road, and north of West Maud Avenue, between Logue Avenue and Clyde Avenue, to be read entitled only for the reading waived. 6 adopt resolution of the city council, city, Mountain View, declaring a certain segment of Logue Avenue, to be exempt surplus land pursuant to government code section 54221. Parentheses, F, parentheses, one, subsections, parentheses, C, and parentheses, E, upon the vacation of said segment of Logue Avenue as a public street, to be read entitled only further reading wave, and number seven, if you can help me here. Adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View approving a parkland dedication credit for up to 2.87 acres of privately owned publicly accessible open space in the middle field park master plan area. Located at the northeast corner of Ellis Street and East Millfield Road and North of West Maud Avenue between Logue Avenue and Clyde Avenue. And do we add here? With the, if you can.

[03:05:52] Assistant City Manager Aarti Shrivastava: We're still crafting that and we actually have the one, um, Okay, uh, we, we would add a condition of approval and maybe Lindsay, you can, uh, what I'll use, I'll just share. I've been trying to capture it on the slide. Live, so. You know, the editing is not perfect on this. I would just ask that council allow staff to make any adjustments to the wording to reflect the intent of the discussion tonight. So we don't have to come back to you if there are some small modifications.

[03:06:27] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Sure. So, um, I would include this in item 7. Is that correct?

[03:06:35] Assistant City Manager Aarti Shrivastava: Um, I think. Actually, it would be a condition of approval in the attachment 3 exhibit A. Okay, which is the conditions of approval of the master plan. Um, The publicly accessible open space in the middle field park master plan area. Is that in, in, at, in, including a condition of approval and attachment 3, exhibit A, that in order to accommodate a childcare center within the active use of following options can be accommodated. One, if offenced and secured, open space is required for the childcare center based on state and our licensee requirements, then this area cannot be included in the POPA open space acreage for partland credit, or 2, if the open space within the POPA open space acreage can be shared with the childcare center, then the space can be included in the POPA acreage for Parkland credit. Located in the northeast corner of Ellis Street and East Middlefield Road and north of West Maud Avenue between Logue Avenue and Clyde Avenue to be read entitled only for the reading weight. I believe that captures the intent, and we might modify with the help of the city attorney's office the language to better reflect the intent, but generally this is the understanding. Um, in, um, if, if they do require a fenced area, then they would pay, pay the credit for that part of the land. Um, and they can make their decisions on on placing daycare based on those 2 options. Um, I do want to just clarify that based on the conversation we had about the air quality, um, we would need counsel to read into the record the, um, this 1st item, which is part of attachment one or the, um, 1st set that you read for the draft, for the EAR.

[03:08:38] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yeah, finally. So going back to item one then, adopting a resolution. I need to read the whole thing. adopting a resolution of the city council, city mountain, certifying the middle field park master plan, supplemental environmental impact report, adopting California environmental impact, findings related to environmental impacts, mitigation measures, and alternatives. In adopting a statement of overriding considerations. Best available and feasible mitigation measures, including modifying mitigation measure AQ one. one in the final SCIR and attachment one to add the following language to extent to extent commercially available and feasible. One, all on road heavy duty trucks used during construction shall be 0 emissions, or to meet the then current most stringent emissions standards, and a mitigation monitoring and reporting program to be read entitled only for the reading wave.

[03:09:38] Assistant City Manager Aarti Shrivastava: Does that work?

[03:09:40] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Great. Thank you. Thank you for reading all of that into the record. And then just a quick check in with staff for any of these. Do we need to seek the consent of the applicant?

[03:09:55] Assistant City Manager Aarti Shrivastava: Uh, we have worked with the applicant on item one and we've let the applicant know that there, there are 2 credit options that they can use to allow um, them to make a decision on the daycare. We're not requiring daycare. We're providing a framework.

[03:10:13] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay, fantastic. Thank you. Council member command.

[03:10:18] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: I was just gonna 2nd.

[03:10:21] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. Any remaining questions or comments? Not, uh, we'll conduct the vote.

[03:10:32] Heather Glaser: Council member Abi Koka?

[03:10:34] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: I,

[03:10:34] Heather Glaser: Council member Kame?

[03:10:36] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Yes.

[03:10:36] Heather Glaser: Council member labor.

[03:10:38] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Hi.

[03:10:38] Heather Glaser: Council member Matachek?

[03:10:40] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes,

[03:10:41] Heather Glaser: council member Shelter.

[03:10:43] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes.

[03:10:44] Heather Glaser: Vice Mayor Hicks. Oh, sorry, she's recused, um, Mayor Ramirez.

[03:10:56] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yeah,

[03:10:57] Heather Glaser: okay. Yes, thank you. Unanimously.

[03:10:59] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. Fantastic. Thank you again, everyone for your work on this. Very ambitious and important project. We will now proceed to everyone's favorite item. Item 8 council, staff, and committee reports. Council member of Inkoga.

[03:11:21] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mayor. I had the opportunity with many of you, my colleagues, to attend, um, quite a few, um, community events and and some that were city, uh, related, um, such as, uh, the public safety foundation, um, annual dinner. Um, The Palo Alto University, um, uh, new mental health, mental wellness, um, clinic opening across from Graham Middle School, which is very exciting to bring more mental health services to our community. Um, the Veterans Day ceremony at Eagle Park. Um, I believe we also had the employee appreciation, um, lunch. And then, um, when non, well, a separate event, um, we had at the cities association, um, uh, workshop training, uh, with our former, um, uh, city manager, Kevin Duggan, leading us in an exercise on how to be good council members and work with effectively with our with each other and with city staff and it was very well attended and very informative and um, I think folks, um, were able to benefit from seeing our former city manager and what a, um, what a great um, city manager he was for us. Um, and then with the city's association, um, just wanted, um, mention that I was elected, uh, president for next year. And, um, my 1st vice president will be Nisa Flagger from Los Altos. Our 2nd vice president. Um, actually was Rich Constantine from Morgan Hill, but he doesn't look like he'll be returning. So we'll have to fill that vacancy. Our secretary treasure is returning Sunnyvale mayor, Larry Klein. And we have a member at large Tina Walia from Saratoga. So, look forward to um, working with this group and, and, um, with, uh, hope that, um, you will all participate, um, with the city's association activities, gonna try to bring as much of those activities to Mountain View as I can so we can make it easier for everyone. Thanks.

[03:13:38] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. Any other reports or comments? If not, we will proceed to item 9, close session report. City attorney lobe. Do you have a closed session report?

[03:13:54] Jennifer Lowe: Good evening. This is Jennifer Lowe, city attorney. Now there is no closed session report this evening.

[03:14:01] Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. It is 9.48 PM, which means I've already broken my 1st promise after election day. Thank you so much for joining us. The next city council meeting will be held on December 6, 2022. Until then, stay healthy. The meeting is adjourned at 9.48 p.m. Take care.

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