March 14, 2023 Joint Meeting of Mountain View City Council and Shoreline Regional Park Community

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[00:00:47] City Attorney Jennifer Logue: The name of the case is Kent Taylor versus the city of Mountain View, Santa Clara County Superior Court case number, 22 CV, 393000. The final item, item 2.3, is a conference with legal counsel regarding one item of anticipated litigation, pursuant to government code section, 54956.9 D1.

[00:01:11] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you. Thank you. Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on the closed session items listed on tonight's agenda? If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom, or submit a blue speaker card. I see no one either virtually or in person. So, uh, we will now move into closed session.

[00:02:39] Mayor Alison Hicks: Good evening, everyone. Welcome back to the Joint Special Meeting of the Mountain View City Council and the Shoreline Regional Park community of March 14, 2023. For those joining us in person, please note that due to our hybrid environment, audio and video presentations can no longer be shared from the lectern. Requests to show an audio or video presentation during a council meeting should be directed to city.clerk at mountainview.gov by 4:30 p.m. on the meeting date. Additionally, due to our hybrid environment, will no longer have speakers line up to speak on an item. Anyone wishing to the council in person must complete a blue speaker card. Please indicate the name you'd like to be called by when it's your turn to speak, and the item number on which you wish to speak. Please complete one blue speaker card for each item on which you want to speak, and turn them into the city clerk as soon as possible. But no later than the call for public comment on the item you're speaking on. Instructions for addressing the council virtually may be found on the posted agenda. Now please join me in the pledge of allegiance.

[00:03:57] Unknown Speaker: My 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 you have this for all.

[00:04:16] Mayor Alison Hicks: Now, the city clerk will now take role.

[00:04:19] Unknown Speaker: All council members are present this evening.

[00:04:23] Mayor Alison Hicks: So we're now moving to item three on our agenda 3.1, which is a proclamation in recognition of Red Cross Month. And please note, this is a presentation only. The city council will not take any action. Public comment will occur after the presentation item. If you'd like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now. So, uh, we're happy to be joined this evening by Mike Casper Zack on behalf of the Red Cross to accept this proclamation. And, Mike, I will meet you up front at the lectern.

[00:05:17] Mayor Alison Hicks: You don't have the cool plastic thing anymore, huh?

[00:05:19] Mike Kasperzak: No, we don't.

[00:05:21] Mayor Alison Hicks: So, where I will be, um, reading this lengthy proclamation, but also saying one of the reasons that it's particularly relevant, we'll be talking about the Red Cross's work in Turkey and Syria, and, uh, reminding ourselves that we live in an earthquake zone, and that, um, that, uh, yes, that the Red Cross could help us out there, as well. So this is a long proclamation. So, um, bear with me. Whereas March is American Red Cross Month, a special time to celebrate the humanitarian spirit of Mountain View, and reaffirm the commitment to help ensure no one faces a crisis alone, and caring for one another, is at the heart of our community, whose simple acts of kindness, through the Red Cross, provide help and hope in people's most difficult moments, continuing the life saving legacy of Clara Barton, who founded the organization more than 140 years ago, to prevent and alleviate human suffering. And, whereas, every day, these ordinary individuals lend a helping hand to make an extraordinary difference for neighbors in need, whether it's providing emergency shelter, food, and comfort for families, displaced by home fires, and other disasters, donating life saving blood for cancer patients, accident victims, and people with sickle cell disease, and other life threatening conditions, supporting military members and veterans, along with their families and caregivers, through the unique challenges of service, using vital skills, like first aid and CPR, to help others survive medical emergencies, or delivering international humanitarian aid, and reconnecting loved ones separated by crisis around the world. And, whereas a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Southern and Central Turkey in Northern and Western Syria on February 6, 2023. Immediately, the Turkish Red Crescent and Syrian Arab Red Crescents deployed more than 9,000 staff, and volunteers to the affected area with food, water, blood, basic relief supplies, mental health, and psychosocial support. The National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies from around the world offered technical support, and the American Red Cross contributed two disaster responders to the relief efforts, specializing in communications and information management while continuing to assess ongoing needs. Now, therefore, I, Alison Hicks, mayor of the city of Mountain View, along with my colleagues on the city council, do hereby proclaim the month of March as American Red Cross month. Mike, would you like to say a few words?

[00:08:13] Mike Kasperzak: I would. Thank you, Mayor. I'll let you have the lectern. All right. I just have a few notes, but it's great to be here, and Red Cross Month is part of an international movement. The American Red Cross is one of about 125 Red Cross and Red Crescent societies throughout the world that is part of the overall movement. Here in Silicon Valley, we have over 2,000 volunteers in the past year, over 800 of those are youth volunteers. We've helped over 215 families and 116 emergencies throughout the county during the past year. We've done services for 1,100 members of the armed forces. Sometimes we forget that we have military here in Mountain View. They get deployed. People get lost, and the Red Cross services for the armed forces is a really vital part of our collaboration with the Department of Defense. We've collected over 17,000 units of blood and blood platelets over the last five over the last year. And keep in mind that one pint of blood can help save the lives of three people. And we've trained over 13,500 people in first aid, CPR, and how to use an AED. We've also been through this water crisis, the rain. We were in a drought, and now we're in the great floods. We've had over 1,200 disaster volunteers deployed throughout the county during this disaster. We've provided 11,000 overnight stays to 2,200 residents in 128 emergency shelters throughout the state, and with the help of our partners, provided over 74,000 meals to those folks. So, the Red Cross is part of our community, and we are all part of the Red Cross. Mayor, we thank you for this proclamation recognizing the Silicon Valley chapter, the American Red Cross, for Red Cross Month. And maybe one year, we'll get a Red Cross flag to fly during the month, but I know that's a real fiasco to get a special flag flown. Thank you again for all of your support. And, um, I'm happy to answer any questions, but I doubt there are any, so...

[00:10:42] Mayor Alison Hicks: Well, we'll see, because we're gonna give counsel a chance to comment. I just wanted to thank you, particularly, my husband is from Turkey, and over 50,000 people have died in Turkey and Syria. So when we're thinking we live in a fault zone as well, and hopefully we're following building codes a little better than they did, but, um, you know, it's something that we need to think about, so thank you for being there. Now, do council members have other additional comments or questions for Mike? Okay, I know I'm wearing a coat, so what the heck? So... Anyways, thank you. So, seeing none? Thank you very much. All right. And we will now take, if we have any speakers, either in person or virtual. And seeing none, we will close this item and move to item number four on the agenda, which is the consent calendar. These items will be approved by one motion, unless any member of the council wishes to remove an item for discussion. If you'd like to speak on this item or the next item, oral communications on non agendas items, then, uh, in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now. So I see that Pat Showalter, the vice mayor, would like to speak.

[00:12:16] Vice Mayor Pat Showalter: Yes. Um, I would like to pull 4.3. That's the HRC and PAC appointments. But I would like to, um, just comment on some other things. This is really a great night at this meeting for affordable housing. There are a number of things on our agenda tonight, on the consent calendar, and then later on, that are dealing with affordable housing. And as everybody has, you know, observed, that's one of the things, or I probably observed, that's one of the things I really care about. is us increasing our supply of affordable housing. So I'm really pleased to see the crest view apartment funding, the HUD grant, which is affordable housing, the Lot 12 funding for affordable housing. And, of course, then we'll be talking about the Terabella project. It's just, um, really, uh, I think something that we should, you know, we should really be aware that this mountain view is a leader in this. But there are lots and lots of steps of work to get each and every one of these projects done, and we have a lot of these steps tonight, so I'm really pleased about that. I wanted to mention it.

[00:13:38] Mayor Alison Hicks: So, Vice Mayor, I've been slipped a note that you may have been referring to item 4.5. Was it 4.3 or 4.5 that you wanted to pull?

[00:13:47] Vice Mayor Pat Showalter: I'm not sure. Okay, 4... Oh, it's a one. Oh, one for the HRC. Yes, that's 4.5. Sorry, yeah. 4.5.

[00:13:55] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay, so 4.5 is pulled. Council member command?

[00:14:00] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. And thanks to the vice mayor for speaking on all those items, so I don't have to comment on them, but I just have a comment. Mayor. I'm not gonna pull an item. I just wanted to comment on item 4.4, which is our adopt a resolution to oppose the taxpayer protection and government accountability act. Um, I sit on the League of California City's board of directors as part of my role in the women's caucus, and I know that we have been tracking this closely and are very grateful for our cities coming out. And I know our resolution will be sent to the league. So I just wanted to thank our staff and thank council, hopefully. if this goes forward, because this really will protect, I think, a lot of valuable resources. that we use for our city. Thank you.

[00:14:46] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you. And are there any other council members who want to pull an item or comment, saying none, I say that Mr. Inks would like to speak member of the public.

[00:15:05] Mr. Inks: Yeah, this item is, uh, taxpayer protection and government accountability, and the report that you received from the League of Cities, I would respectfully submit, is extremely misguiding, and, uh, misguided, rather, and misleading in a lot of ways. It claims in there that this puts a lot of protections, and for its voters' rights. No, it does just the opposite of that. It limits those rights. So I would submit that the right thing to do is actually to support taxpayer protection and government accountability. Those seem like very sensible public policy goals. So I would not support a resolution opposing taxpayer protection and government accountability. In fact, I would just do the opposite. I would rewrite the resolution to support taxpayer protection and govern accountability. That would be a good step at the local level, to start to reverse the notorious reputation. The state of California has for being a high tax, high tax, and high regulation state on businesses and individuals. So I urge you to vote no on 4.4. Thank you.

[00:16:26] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you. Are there any other members of the public, here in the room, who would like to speak, and any members of the public, virtually, who would like to speak? Okay, seeing none? Are there is there a motion? We'll deal with all the consent items, except for a 4.5. So, I see a motion from council member Ramos, and a second from council member Kmei. Now we can vote. Oh, you have to read. Sorry.

[00:17:08] Councilmember Emily Ramos: Um, which part do I have to read? Okay, so, I move, we adopt item 4.1, adopt the resolution of the city of Mountain View, amending city council policy K 2, council advisory bodies to add requirements for filing statements of economic interest, and Brown Act training, and removing the ability to appoint alternates to fill potential future vacancies to be read entitled only, further waiting, further reading waived, and adopt the resolution of the city council, the city amount of view, amending the council code of con to modify section 3.6, to clarify the consequences of noncompliance, with ethics training requirements for boards, commissions, and committees, to be read in title only, further reading, waived, item 4.2. Adopt the resolution of the city and Mountain View, authorizing the city attorney, to comprise, to compromise, and settle plaintiff's claims for attorney fees and costs in a matter of Navarro et Al versus the city and Mountain View, United States District Court case number 21 dash CB dash 05381 in the amount of $750,000 in authorizing an appropriation of $750,000 from the liability self-insurance fund to pay the settlement. To be read in title only further reading waived, item 4.3, adopt a resolution of the city of Mountain View acknowledging a receipt of a report made by the Mountain View fire chief regarding the required annual inspection of certain occupancies pursuant to sections 13146.2 and 13146.3 of the California health and safety code to be read in title only further reading wave. Adopt the resolution of the city of Mountain View to oppose the taxpayer protection and government accountability act to be read in title only, further reading waived. And that one's pulled.

[00:19:08] Mayor Alison Hicks: All right. Okay, now we can vote. Okay, pass this unanimously. And now, uh, vice mayor, you wanted to talk about item 4.5.

[00:19:31] Vice Mayor Pat Showalter: Yeah, we, um, we had, uh, a, uh, applicant process, an interview process for the human, um, relations committee, and for the, um, performing arts committee. And we were really impressed with the caliber of the applicants, as we often are. But in this case, we asked the question of whether or not it would be possible for us to appoint, we have two vacancies for the performing arts committee. We wondered if it would be possible, since we had four good applicants, to appoint two of them, and then make two of them alternates. And that wasn't answered in the staff report. So I would really like to get an answer for that, because we thought that would be a good option, but I understood there might have been a legal issue. So, clarify that?

[00:20:31] City Attorney Jennifer Logue: Yes, I can address that question. So, there are two ways for you to have alternates on bodies where you are pointing members. You can either do it through the legislation that creates the body. So if you've adopted a resolution that has created a particular body, that resolution can define the membership, and that membership can include alternates. And you would designate the number of alternates, and those alternates would participate in the meetings, but they wouldn't vote in less than until they were needed as an alternate. Um, you cannot appoint alternates, as standby, in the event that there is a vacancy, if you do not have them in the resolution, because there is a law called the Matty Act. And the Matty Act requires that any time that there is a vacancy on a legislative bodies, so a border commission created by the council, there are notice requirements that have to be posted in order to allow all members of the public to be able to apply to fill that vacancy. And therefore, you can't have backup people, sort of, standing in the wings to fill those vacant spots. You have to meet the notice requirements under the Matty Act. So, I guess there really is only one way you can have true alternates, and that's by creating them in the resolution that establish the body. So what you would need to do is, if a particular body doesn't allow for alternates right now, We would just amend that legislation, define the membership to include a couple of alternates, so that they can be appointed at the same time all of the other members are appointed.

[00:22:11] Vice Mayor Pat Showalter: And I take it that the resolution for the performing arts committee did not include alternates.

[00:22:18] City Attorney Jennifer Logue: Correct.

[00:22:19] Vice Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay. All right, well, so that's something we could bring up an item eight. Okay, with that, I will move... Actually, I'm having a little trouble reading. read this for me. 4.5. I forgot my reading classes.

[00:22:39] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay. Council member Ramirez?

[00:22:41] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, Mayor. I will move to adopt a resolution of the City of Mountain View appointing Joan McDonald to the Human Relations Commission, and appointing Carol Donahue and David Garcia to the Performing Arts Committee to be read entitled only for the reading waived.

[00:22:56] Mayor Alison Hicks: And I see a second by councilman... Oh, just one. I see a second by the vice mayor.

[00:23:04] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay. And now we can vote on this one. Also passes unanimously. And, oh, we didn't have speakers. Anybody want to speak on this? Now. Okay, so now we, um... Now we're on, uh, 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 three minutes during this section. State law prohibits the council from acting on non agenda items. If you'd like to speak on this item in person, or the next study session item. Please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now. Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment? So, first, I see Dean Brigni. I'm sorry, if I'm mispronouncing your name?

[00:24:11] Dean Birney: Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor. Comfman Nabokova. My name is Dean Birney. I live at the 779 East Evelyn Avenue Evelyn Apartments. I'm here to speak on the Evelyn Park that is being constructed at the, um, new development called the Hadley that is owned by the Prometheus Company. My wife and I attended every single, uh, public input, uh, meeting for this. And then the first time the council, the Parks and Recs Commission, took, sat down to discuss it, they rejected all of our recommendations for the park. With words to the effect, well, there are only two of you that kept being put in any input, so we're just gonna ignore you. And we're going to redesign the part to our likings. To the best of my knowledge, this is a democracy, not a autocracy. And I would like to ask that the, um, Parks and Rec commission be counseled on how they address and how they, how much respect they give to public input, because they did ask for a public input. We gave public input. There were other people who gave public input, but they don't want it. They've decided rather than taking our input and designing a part that would be appropriate for us and our neighbors in the Evelyn family apartments. They're gonna design a project, a park, that would be very appropriate for 1978. Okay? Because of the the placement of Evelyn family apartments, we're on the extreme outer edge of Mountain View, we have a hard time getting any services or support of any kind out there, we've had a very large pile of gravel sitting in the gutter out in front for pretty much most of the past year. It hasn't been cleaned and hasn't been, you know, we don't get street sweeping. don't get anything. Based on the response to the Parks and Recs commission, to our public input. I feel that we are being disregarded, being insulted, and being told to sit down, shut up, and go away, because we're poor people, and we don't matter. Thank you.

[00:26:46] Mayor Alison Hicks: Now, we have Chris Martinez.

[00:26:58] Chris Martinez: Good evening, mayor and council members. My name's Chris Martinez. I am a carpenter with the Carpenters Union, and 405 out of San Jose. I'm really excited, too, about all the housing coming to town, so I just want to come up here and just hope you guys can think about hiring a responsible contractor. A lot of times we're forgotten about as a construction worker, the men and women that build our great city should, you know, make a livable wage, you know, and healthcare benefits. So I just want to keep it short and sweet, and I just hope you guys, when it comes time to vote on contractors and see, get the right people on there. Thank you.

[00:27:34] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you. Now we have Alex Eulenberg.

[00:27:47] Alex Eulenberg: Good evening. Mayor Hicks. council members, I'm here to ask you to use your power as the overseer of the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts, to get them to stop their medical discrimination. Currently, they are hosting events that require, they're gonna be hosting events, they say, that will require vaccination upon entry. Also, the Peninsula Youth Theater uses this facilities, and they require children to take vaccinations that are not been approved by the FDA. They have not been approved by the FDA, and parents are concerned. They don't want to give them the children these shots, and the PYT will not let them participate in their programs. And these programs go on at the Mountain View Center performing arts. What I want you to do is to tell them they can't do this anymore, and they will be defunded unless they stop this medical discrimination. There is no reason to require people to be vaccinated against COVID 19, because we all know these vaccinations do not make anybody safer. Somebody who's unvaccinated, does not pose a direct threat. And in having such a policy to require vaccination, these institutions are treating people as if they have some kind of immune disorder. And does that ring a bell, treating someone as disabled and discriminating against them? Americans with Disabilities Act. You can't do it. En Rue Act. Treating someone as disabled and discriminated against them, even if they aren't. Once again, unvaccinated people pose zero risk, zero additional risk over vaccinated people, even to the immunocompromise. So, if you hear that, we're doing it for the uncompromised, check the CDC. The guidance for the immunocompromise has nothing to say about avoiding unvaccinated people. So, it's against the law, basically, what PYT is doing, and, uh, it pocket opera, they have an event, they say they're gonna be requiring vaccination. That needs to stop immediately. So do what you can, as supervisors, as overseers, of the Mountain View Center for performing arts, and make them stop. You have the power to do that. Thank you.

[00:30:18] Mayor Alison Hicks: Ariadas, salav, yova? Sorry. Thank you.

[00:30:26] Public Speaker: Yes, so, uh, we both, um, me and Alex, we are mountain new homeowners, have been for over 25 years, and our daughter was in many PYT productions, and very active in local theater groups, and, um, we're really happy to notice that CSMA dropped all the requirements in Pear Avenue Theater, as well. Um, so, um, PYT is one of the last ones, I guess, and pocket opera, and there are a few others. And this month is the youth, um, arts month in Santa Clara County, uh, as we noticed. And it's a wonderful, um, saying that, um, of course, the city administration in the county, they're all for inclusivity and including everyone in the arts community. And unfortunately, this medical discrimination also turns out to be de facto racial discrimination, because the Latino and the black community have the least acceptance of the booster shots, for a good reason. These shots are only emergency authorized. They're not approved. They're not FDA approved. A few weeks ago, CDC reapplied to have FDA approve these latest shots, and they were rejected. CDC did not get these shots approved. There is still only emergency authorized. And some people actually look these things up, and also look up, you know, there's adverse effects, Pfizer's recent, recently released documents with many pages of adverse events, and they may have a reason to not have this medical procedure for their children. And then they are rejected by theaters in the community who don't let these kids take classes. So I think it's a shame and I think maybe people here have some influence and can somehow help it stop. Thank you.

[00:32:19] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you. Now, are there any members of the public virtually who wish to speak, seeing no hands? We will close, uh, oral communications from the public, and move on to item number 6.1, which is our public hearing for 1020 and 1040 Terabella Avenue, the Affordable Housing Projects, and public storage. Would any council members like to make disclosures? Council member Ramirez.

[00:32:55] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, Mayor. I will disclose that I met with the applicant, both applicants, I guess.

[00:33:01] Mayor Alison Hicks: Uh, Council member Ramos.

[00:33:05] Councilmember Emily Ramos: Thank you, Mayor. I would like to disclose. I met with both applicants.

[00:33:09] Mayor Alison Hicks: Council member Mattachek.

[00:33:11] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Thank you. I also met with both applicants, and I've been to the sites on my own.

[00:33:16] Mayor Alison Hicks: Uh, council member, Abbe Koga.

[00:33:18] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mayor. I've also met with the applicants and visited the site on my own.

[00:33:24] Mayor Alison Hicks: Vice mayor.

[00:33:25] Vice Mayor Pat Showalter: I've also met with applicants, several times, and visited the site.

[00:33:30] Mayor Alison Hicks: Council member commit.

[00:33:32] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: I met with both of the applicants and visited the site.

[00:33:35] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you. And I also met with the both applicants, and visited the site. So, um, we will now, uh... we will now, uh, senior planner, Edgar Maravilla, will present the item.

[00:34:14] Senior Planner Edgar Maravilla: Good evening, Mayor, council members, members of the public. My name is Edgaramaravilla, senior planner of the city of Mountain View, and today I'm here with Assistant Community Development Director, Lindsay Hagen. Today's presentations for two separate but connected projects at 1020 and 1040 Terabella Avenue. The projects came in by way of a joint gatekeeper application authorized by city council in August of 2020. The 1020 Terabella project is a 6th story, 100% affordable housing project, providing 108 units, including a state dentity bonus, as summarized on the screen, and discussed in the report. The 1040 Terabella project would redevelop the existing public storage facility, replacing 18 existing single storage buildings with 2 new multi-storage buildings. The proposal also includes an applicant requested 10-year development agreement to facilitate the proposed two-face construction and a request for a low generating use transportation impact fee, also discussed in the report. The project parcels are in the Terabella area, with project frontages on San Rafael Avenue, Terabella Avenue and Linda Vista Avenue. The sites are immediately surrounded by existing industrial uses, office, research and development uses in Highway 101. Further down Terabella Avenue to the west, it's a recently approved and under construction mixed-use multifamily project at 1001 North Shoreline. If entitled, A Lotline Adjustment will be processed to implement a land swap and a half an acre donation between public storage and out to housing. Reconfiguring the parcels as shown, allowing for more affordable units to be built on the site. After the lot line adjustment, The personal storage use would be located directly adjacent to Highway 101 serving as a buffer to the affordable housing project. The proposed affordable housing, development, and personal storage project presented tonight require both development permits and legislative land use changes, as shown on the screen, which include for 1020 Tarabella, a general plan map amendment, is the only map amendment, and planned community, and development review permits what a state density bonus. For 1040 Tarabella, a general plan text amendment to allow an increase to FAR, is the only map amendment, a planned community, and development review permit, and a request for a development agreement for 10 yearsears The projects have multiple opportunities for community and decision maker input. Over the course of 9 public meetings, including applicant hosts a community meeting, study sessions, and a hearing with the environmental planning commission, whom recommended approval of the project in February of 2023. The next 2 slides will be specifically about 1020 Teravella, the affordable housing site. Project parking is accommodated in a 2 level above ground podium garage. The podium garage is wrapped by residential units, common areas, and interior utility rooms, which face adjacent frontages with exterior amenities areas such as the main entry plaza, shown in blue, a secure bicycle parking and repair room, which spell out plaza areas in orange. The upper floors are organized around the 3rd floor podium courtyard, which faces the Terabella, providing a variety of features such as a children play area, shown in yellow, and an indoor outdoor community room shown in purple, among other amenities. The project also provides offsite sidewalk upgrades, including a 7 foot detached sidewalk with a 5 foot wide, continuous landscape strip, providing 9 street trees on Terabella Avenue, and a 5 foot detached sidewalk with a 5 foot landscape strip, providing 2 street treats on San Rafael Avenue. The building has a simple modern design with a mix of 3 primary materials. Cementitious panels, board form, concrete, and metal vertical siding. The color palette uses warm earth tones of almond tan and brown and brighter copper accent colors, the main building corners and on the project awnings. The project design has evolved from the gatekeeper hearing based on the input from the development review committee, the environmental planning commission and city council. Staff is generally in support of the design and is recommending approval when minor design conditions. To finalize the color palette, design details like window treatment and landscape features by way of cost neutral changes, ensuring the project provides a high quality pedestrian environment. The project will utilize federal, state, and county funding sources, as shown on the slide, Alta housing is requesting 13.500000 in funding from the city and anticipates receiving 130000000 from the county. The city's contribution is anticipated to be larger than the county's contribution, allowing the city to own the Alta housing site. This project will fall under the measure A MOU between the city and the county. This project will serve households earning 30 to 60% of the area median income, with 27 units to be made available for permanent supportive housing, or less than 30% of the average median income. The next 2 slides are specifically about 1040 Terabella, the personal storage project. The design. The project site would be 3.8 acres after the land donation to the affordable housing site. Parking is provided at great and accessible via both Linda Vista and San Rafael Avenue. Building one contains a future on-site business office in is oriented towards Linda Vista Avenue, building 2 faces San Rafael. Currently, the property has 0 on-site trees and is proposing 81 new trees. Existing street trees will be removed along Linda Vista to construct public improvements, and new street trees will be planted on both project frontages. Because of the two-faced building approach, some existing storage buildings will remain in use on the property until public storage, proceeds with construction of building 2, and a temporary operation office will be placed fronting San Rafael. The design is a modern building with flat roofs and strong vertical and horizontal bands around both buildings. Building materials include clearance, pandro glass, concrete, cementitious wall materials, stucco, and metal panels, staff and DRC work with the applicant based on early study sessions, input to incorporate a mural on building one along land of Vista Avenue, enhance landscape and tree canopy, and generally refine the design to fit into the area through cost neutral revisions. Here is a formal recommendation as shown on the council report. Staff recommends that the city council conditionally approve the proposed projects per the formal recommendation shown. Staff also wants to highlight one clerical error in the recital sections of attachment 23, 4, and 5. It identifies a city council hearing date of march 28th, but that should read today's date of march 14. This correction should be included in the council motion. Thank you, and that concludes staff presentation. Both project applicants also have presentations they would like to share in public storage, I believe, would like to present 1st followed by Alta housing.

[00:41:36] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay, thank you very much. So public storage first. Okay, well, um, now have a presentation on 1040 Terabella Avenue from the applicants, Andre Friedman, senior vice president of public storage. Andre, please join us at the lectern.

[00:41:55] Andre Friedman: Even mayor, Councilman, members. Thank you for having me here. It's, I've seen some of your faces for some time, and talk about this project now for some couple years, and very proud of where we are, the partnership with the city, the partnership without the housing. I have a detailed presentation. I think staff did a better job than I did presenting the facts of this project, but I'll run through it quickly, just to give all of you a reminder, an overview while we're here. I think it all came really with a creative idea that really sparked on the conversations with some of you, I would say, back in 2019, about how we can move this project forward of public storage. And the creative idea was to try to figure out a way to advance, you know, affordable housing. And it happened that after housing just recently purchased the line next to us, and it opened the door to have a creative idea to give back to the city, to give back to the community, more residential units that are affordable. So that's what we're presenting here. I think it's about public storage, but the big news is more affordable housing. So I'll run quickly through it, and I'm happy to answer any questions at the end. But if you don't mind the next slide. This is, you know, configuration of public storage property. We've been part of the community for over 40 years now with these and other facilities in the city. And out the housing owns the property, to the right, on this slide, that is the blue area, with about half an acre. What we're proposing here today, as part of this process we've been going through, is donate some of the land in front of Terabella. Next slide, please. That really, it does many things. The most important thing, it just gives the predominance of Terabella to affordable housing component. Public story gives up the frontage to be in the back. Our new facility will also act as a buffer to the residential unit would now can grow from 56 units to 108 units. Next slide, please. Our project, as staff presented, its two buildings, two faces building one, which we're proposing a phase one, and then a building two, as phase two. The two projects now will be replacing 64 year old drive up buildings to secure and climate control facilities to serve the community. When you look at the customer map of who is our client, the majority of our clients are residents. So hopefully these, with the growth of the city, the growth of apartments, apartments getting smaller, will provide better product to service the community as well. A next slide, please. This is what we came forward back in 2020 as a gatekeeper of our proposal. Since that date, next slide, please, we had significant meetings with EPC, with the council, as well as DRC, and we've addressed a lot of the comments that are outlining this slide, which resulted in the next slide, please. This very contemporary, beautiful, articulated building, and I said to some of you, probably will be the nicest public storage building we've ever built. We're very proud of it, and hopefully we can serve the community. And this architecture really is a reflection of, you know, continuous conversations with community, the city staff. And one of the items that highlights in these elevations is the mural that you see there, it's on private property. We haven't identified exactly the art that is gonna go there, but it's for now a placeholder, then we'll be working over the next year or so to try to figure out the right image to implement. This is the building number one. It's a six story building, which will be phase one for us when we move forward. Next slide, please. This is a rendering of the facility. This is the main entrance on Elinda Vista, where customers will come in. The office is at the bottom, and there will be a customers park here to get in, though we have seen, through the pandemic, the acceleration of technology using our app online. 60% of our customers these days, use it to get rentals through our units, so we expect, you know, a lot of flow in and out, but not a lot of people probably parking at the office. Next slide, please. It is another view of the freeway overpass, where the building will be located between the industrial buildings and the overside, on the right side, the back is a terabella in your fronting Linda Vista, towards the end, on the right hand side, you see the building on the right hand side, rendering. Next slide, please. This is phase two. It's similar architectural style, the difference is a four story building. The main reason for this is just to be able to do the right scale of building behind the affordable housing component, which was important through the design. It will continue to provide a buffer with the noise of the freeway, but also from a scale point of view, it's not as massive as the six story building. Next slide, This is a view from San Rafael to the left hand side in white. You can see the massing of the affordable housing project from Alta, and on the right hand side of our building, so you understand the scale, and this will be entrance or exit of phase two of our projects. Next slide, it was mentioned during staff report that a landscape was an important element to the discussions, not just the architecture. The property has no trees, and off site, we have about six trees, which will be replaced now, next slide, please, with 81 trees, which will eventually provide 40% canopy shade in the surrounding area. So, it's a significant improvement to what we have there. And that was the end result of the effort with the city. Next slide. This is just some of the benefits that were negotiated as part of the development remaining outlines, the importance of that 10 year period for us to be able to execute this project. The intent here is to provide public storage with some optionality, but the ability to donate the land happens right after approval of this project, where the alta housing could move forward. We do need to relocate our offices, utilities in our management office, which will be the first step, so that then we can donate the land, and they can move forward. But hopefully start that process soon after approval. Next slide. It's just a summary of what staff just presented, the documents in front of you, and happy to answer any questions you may have, happen to be here.

[00:48:33] Mayor Alison Hicks: Do council members have any questions for Mr. Friedman, or would you like to save them for after both presentations? Council member Ramirez?

[00:48:43] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, Mayor. I have a quick question. Um, unless I missed it, conspicuously absent from the renderings is a large public storage sign that would be visible from the freeway. Those of us who know what public storage is, we'll know that that's a public storage building, but many people may not. I'm curious to know if you happen to have a rendering of what that would look like, or at least some description of what you expect that signage. Thank you.

[00:49:15] Andre Friedman: The signage was discussed, but it was not part of the application today. We will be seeking freeway signage as part of the conversations with the city. It is important for us. One of the reasons we moved to the back of Terabella was also to be able to have some presents for our customers. And that's why the signage is not shown. The signage will be done to scale in a testful way. It's just reflecting what are, you know, the right skill, and we hope to bring that forward. But I don't have something with me. I should have, but I don't have one. But, yes, hopefully, we'll be able to do one for each building, is what we hope to get.

[00:49:50] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. And then a quick question for staff. Is it typical for the signage to be discussed and approved after entitlement, or is it unusual, I guess, why not sort of lump it altogether, since we're approving a number of things tonight?

[00:50:06] Unknown Speaker: Great question. So for this particular project, the applicant is also applying for a master sign program, so it's gonna require a little bit more, you know, information as far as the location, one, into any other, for example, monument signs or anything along those lines, and that requires a separate process per our current code.

[00:50:28] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Okay, so the code itself requires them to get entitlement prior to going through the master sign process.

[00:50:40] Unknown Speaker: If I can answer that and jump in here. So typically why you also don't see signage as part of a development package is because you need the actual detailed building to be able to kind of lay out accurately any signage. So typically that is a separate process done during building entitlement or building permits or even after that. That's usually pulled by a separate contractor and everything like that. So yeah, it is very typical in all of our projects, the signage comes secondary.

[00:51:10] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay, thank you. So, council members. Any other questions? at this point? Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. Um, we'll now have a presentation on 1020 Terabella Avenue from the applicants, Randy Suda, President and CEO, and Carlos Castellanos, Vice President of Real Estate Development for Alta Hausing. Randy, please join us at the lectern. Or Carlos?

[00:51:41] Carlos Castellanos: Thank you. Good evening. Good morning. Mayor and council members. I'm Carlos Castellanas, Vice President of Real Estate Development at Alta Housing, and Randy Suda is here with me to answer questions as well. And we'll go through this presentation rather quickly, and leave it for questions. Next slide, please. So our process, we came last year, and we appreciated the council's enthusiasm in setting the goal for trying to get the entitlements done so that we could be eligible to apply this spring for state financing. And we really are happy to say that we work very well with the city staff to get us here today, and to be able to be able to be on track to apply for the state financing, which we anticipate is gonna be in this June. And if, ideally, if everything goes to plans, we would be receiving an award at the end of the year, and then applying for permits, and being able to apply for tax credits, early next year, and, again, ideally, and, you know, having the opportunity to secure those credits, and, at the earliest, started construction late in 2024. Next slide, please. And this is just a reminder of where we started with the gatekeeper a few years ago, and where we are today. We've been able to listen to public input, council input, and staff, and DRC input. We've actually reduced the size of the building by one level. We've been able to really work on a large building trying to break up the mass, and we'll show it in the next slide, please. So here's, in particular, the working with the city staff, we've been focused on the massing, on the colors of the building, and particularly on the pedestrian streetscape, and experience down on the ground floor. And we really worked on how to focus on our learn through play programming at the ground floor, which I'll show in the next slides. First, we'll just go through the massing here, again, breaking up the large building, through some of the articulation, and we'll go to the next slide. And particularly here on the ground floor, looking at the entryway plaza as really a place where residents and community can come and experience it, come at different times, be interactive. The idea here is we're going to be creating a human sundial, and stenciled on the ground there, where we can have people stand there and tell what time it is, and we want to have a art feature that would help complement the not only the sundial, but also some of the signage that we'll have explaining the facility, or explaining the, what we have there. And then we also have the bike facility there as well, where we're, that's where we residents will store their bikes. We wanted to open it up a little bit, have some additional exterior public bike parking there, make this an opportunity for residents and community to get together there, hopefully have bike rides and make it something that's very active on the street. And the third image on the left hand side is the front stoops that we have for our residents who are gonna be along Terabella, set back about 18 feet from the street, so it gives us a chance to have basically a kind of a front yard for those residents and have the stoop and the awning there. Hopefully, creating that opportunity for residents to sit out in front, have eyes on the street, and also interact with the street as well. Next slide. And as was mentioned earlier in the staff presentation, we also have our third floor courtyard, where we have zoned our intergenerational and different levels of both passive and active activities throughout the courtyard there. And we have, also, one thing that we're really excited about is having our community room, which is on the right hand side. It's also on the lower image there, that would open up into the courtyard space, allowing for indoor and outdoor activities, taking advantage of fresh air and fresh light, and natural light to really create a very a sense of larger event for the residents. And I believe in the next slide, I believe that's it. So we're open for any questions that you may have.

[00:57:18] Mayor Alison Hicks: So, council members, do you have questions? I actually have one question, which is, uh, members of the public have asked about, uh, phone and utility poll undergrounding. Can anybody? They been concerned about that and want to know what, if any, of that will. happening. Can someone answer that question?

[00:57:42] Carlos Castellanos: Yes, I'll start answering, and we are working with the city and the utilities to underground along San Rafael. We are not undergrounding along Terabella. I believe that's been the questions that have come up. We've looked into it. We've had a civil engineer look at the estimating the cost. It would be approaching about $1 million to do that work. And if that were asked of us, the affordable housing to absorb that cost and to do the work, it would make the feasibility of the project more difficult. We think that it would, right now, we're in a very high competitive mode with this state funding. And so we're trying to be careful about costs per for the project. And, like I said, that would add upwards towards about a million dollars to the cost. So the answer is partially, but not on terrible.

[00:58:47] Randy Suda: Correct.

[00:58:47] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay, that's correct. Council member manager?

[00:58:50] Unknown Speaker: Thank you. So I was trying to jot down the timeline when you had it on the slide. I don't think I caught everything. In the fall of 23, you would submit for the permits. And then, late 24, you would start construction. Did it say when you had finished construction? Estimated?

[00:59:11] Unknown Speaker: Yeah, I didn't mention that in the slide. The construction would take about 20 months, so we're anticipating more or less towards the end of 2026.

[00:59:21] Unknown Speaker: Okay, thank you.

[00:59:22] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thanks. Vice mayor.

[00:59:26] Vice Mayor Pat Showalter: Yeah. I was wondering about where the kids who live in the affordable housing here would go to school and how they would get there.

[00:59:38] Unknown Speaker: Yes, I think we're gonna be working with that with the school district. We're definitely looking at the local elementary schools, and I know we also work with our resident services on how to get the students to the schools. And we're looking at, um, uh, the safe routes to school, uh, trying to do, um, bus, I mean, a walking school bus, or, as they call them, these bike trips, where you have kids going together. And that would be done through our residence services. And we're also looking working with the city on how to create a safe ride to the local schools there. And Brandy has something else to say.

[01:00:26] Randy Suda: It's the curse and the benefit of actually living in Mountain View is the schools these children would attend to, or Therakov, and then Crittenden for middle school. I think one of the blessings about the location of this site is that it's actually on the city's designated safe routes to school. So I think that's terrific in that it's already on that designated safe route to school route, and potentially can be improved in the future. You know, one thing to keep in mind is if those buildings on the other side of Shoreline, on the other part of Terabella, ever do redevelop, as has been discussed from time to time. It could be even more direct, and create a bike path, or pedestrian path directly from Terabella, into the middle school, and it would connect in near the sports center there. So I think there's an it's a good opportunity now, and can even be enhanced in the future.

[01:01:24] Vice Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you.

[01:01:25] Unknown Speaker: And that also is good, because Serkoff is one of the schools that has lower enrollment, and so there's probably plenty room for those kids right now.

[01:01:34] Vice Mayor Pat Showalter: Yeah, that's good.

[01:01:38] Mayor Alison Hicks: Any other council questions? Council member Maddit?

[01:01:42] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Sorry, I did have another one, I forgot. Um... So, I believe, um, we're doing a feasibility study of a bike lane on Terabella. This might be for staff. Um, and I was wondering when that might be completed, and, um, do we have any initial thoughts on, yes, bike lanes are possible? Um, maybe just on one side of the street, both sides of the street, or what's involved in the feasibility study?

[01:02:18] Public Works Director Don Cameron: Good evening, mayor, council members, Don Cameron, Public Works Director. So, you are correct that we have in our capital improvement program, a Terabella bike wave feasibility study. We are planning to start that study in the fall. We've been waiting for project management resources. So as a feasibility study, It will take a look at various alternatives of different types of bike treatments that may be feasible, working within the right away that's available. So, I could imagine, at this point, that we definitely would look at the possibility of a bike lane, as well as a buffer bike lane, what that might mean for removing on street parking to help create the right of way that's necessary.

[01:03:02] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Are there other bike treatments we could consider in line with just balancing that with the on street parking as well?

[01:03:10] Public Works Director Don Cameron: So there would be a variety of alternatives looked at at different configurations and layouts. And then what would be the trade offs, in terms of parking or laying widths, how we would approach intersections and what that would look like? It'll probably take about a year to get through the feasibility study, and it will definitely include outreach and visiting the bicycle and pedestrian advisory committee.

[01:03:34] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Okay, and then when we finish the feasibility study, about how long would it be before the bike lanes would actually be constructed?

[01:03:43] Public Works Director Don Cameron: So that part of that will depend upon the results of the feasibility study, and what alternative is selected, uh, if we are staying, we do plan to stay within the right of way, but we're not gonna move any curves or do that level of work, so it's more focused on the pavement. It can be, you know, a little quicker to design and eventually implement, but it's still going to be a nine month process to get, on the simplest process, to get through an engineering design process. And then time to construct. The real question will be priorities. There are going to be, um, there are quite a few bike projects currently on our list, both in process, and pending, and one of the reasons, one of the values of the active transportation plan that's currently under development, will help us establish those priorities, of which ones we would work to do first, because it is also a matter of funding and staffing resources.

[01:04:46] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: So, in a perfect world, if this one was prioritized, and there was funding, um, could it be, and about completed by the time there are people living in the altar housing project?

[01:04:58] Public Works Director Don Cameron: If there... In about, it could be completed in about, if it was high priority, and just moved right on through in about three to three and a half years, maybe three years. And again, that would be, um, keeping it confined to within existing curbs.

[01:05:21] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Okay, thank you.

[01:05:22] Unknown Speaker: Mm hmm.

[01:05:26] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay, last call for council questions. Seeing none. Now, members of the public are able to comment, I see two members of the public, in person who would like to comment, first, Albert Jeans.

[01:05:51] Albert Jeans: Good evening. Always good to be here, instead of on Zoom. My main reason for talking, besides, you know, I sent you an email about undergrowing the utilities, was that I really want to urge the city to support this project going forward. I mean, it's in a long road to come to this point, but still gonna need a lot of support going forward, because, as you know, if you've been to this site, you're punking down, probably close to a thousand people, when you consider all the other projects in Terabella in the middle of an industrial park, which isn't very residential friendly. Next flight, please. And we're talking about, yeah, all these people are going to have to use Terabella, to walk to school, or go to the supermarket and things, and this is the current state. And I'm glad to hear that, you know, they're gonna widen the sidewalk and put in trees, but that still leaves, you know, the rest of Terabella, which is still limited, this very narrow, standard, sort of a 5 foot wide sidewalk, and with large sized vehicles parked next to it. It's not very pleasant. If you're riding your bike on there, on the street, is maybe even more dangerous next slide, please. And even if there are no oversized vehicles, it's an industrial area, there's a lot of trucks, commercial vehicles coming and going, lots of driveway cutouts. It's pretty dangerous. I mean, the people in our my neighborhood. There's about 160 houses. You know, I think we use this road a lot. We know it well. The intersections need a lot of improvement. It would really be nice. if the whole street was, like, you know, a wide, 7 foot wide sidewalk with the bike wanes, and really make it residential friendly and a really nice place to live. Next Friday, please. Yeah, I mean, you have this going on. You know, self driving truck company is backing their truck into their driveway, going, you know, I mean, this is, these are really large vehicles, next slide, please. And even once you get to Shoreline, you know, I walked from the site to the Safeway the other day. It's a good 17 minute walk, and it's not pleasant because Shoreline is very loud, very busy. The sidewalks are still narrow. You still have a lot of driveway cutouts, and I know, at least up to middle field, there's gonna be a protected bike lane, and so that will help some. But then you've still got the, you know, the rest of the way to the Safeway, and it's just, yeah, not a very pleasant experience right now. So, hopefully, I'm hoping the city will put this on a little bit of a priority, you know, get more projects into the CIP to really make this a residential area that people want to live in. You know, we don't want this known as, oh, this is the affordable housing area, you know. We really want people to be proud of living there. And as neighbors, we would like to be proud of the area, too, and be proud to show people, oh, you know, this is Mountain Visa 4 wheel housing. Look how nice it is. You know, it should be a model for what we're doing in other parts of the city. Thank you very much.

[01:08:40] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you. Alex Brown.

[01:08:50] Lindsay Ecker: Oh, hello. Uh, Donald Slides, sorry. Uh, Lindsay Ecker. I'm here to support the project. As you can imagine, I've been showing up with these meetings in the stakeholder meetings for a while. I also am going to be a neighbor just over the 101. I would like to say, it'll be a little sad if the only visually interesting part of the project is a mural on the public storage building. Just earth tones, same construction as everything else, it's boring. We can do better. I know, it's nice. It's housing. We need it, but no matter what it looks like, there's gonna be people inside of it. But come on. It's the same building we've seen so many times. It's articulated. Okay, cool. It's brown, it's tan. It's beige. Anyway, sports project, yes. All for it. Do better. Thank you.

[01:09:45] Mayor Alison Hicks: So seeing no other in person speakers, do we have any virtual speakers? Please raise your hands now? I see no virtual speakers. So, um, I'll now bring the item back for council deliberation and action, and note that a motion to approve, the recommendation should also include reading the title of the ordinances and resolutions attached to the report. Council member, Abbe Koga.

[01:10:16] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Well, thank you, Counselor Ramirez. This is gonna chime in, but looking at reading the resolution. I am glad you chimed in first. I just keep it short. I just want to say thank you to the applicants and staff, and the community, too, for many years of input, and I'm really excited about this project. I want to thank Mr. Andreas for being open to suggestions and bringing forth a project that allows us to have significant affordable housing units, which was what I wanted with the gatekeeper. And so, um, and that's what this is actually, I would say, um, successful gatekeeper project, when we get significant community benefits, so something to think about, and as we talk about gatekeeper in the future. And I also want to thank Randy Tsuda and his team, the project, the Affordable Housing Project. I know, um, aesthetics is subjective. I will say that I think it was a huge improvement from the original design and the colors and whatnot. It's just, I think, a much more a softer, welcoming design, that is more conducive to a residential building. So I just want to thank you for being open to suggestions and ideas and coming up with a, I think, a really solid project that we can all be proud of. And then I will say too, with the signage. I know there's some, that's to be continued, but, um, I don't know what we, you know, I have to go back and look at our signage, um, I guess, code, but I do think, you know, from the freeway, you want to be able to have visibility. You want folks to be to know what's there. Um, you know, I don't mind it being as big because it's facing the freeway. So, you know, this is where I think it's important for us to be supportive of our businesses. And so I hope that we can, you know, work. I know we can work collaboratively with the applicant to come up with appropriate signage that will also satisfy their needs of having a thriving business. Thank you very much.

[01:12:46] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you. Uh, Council member, Matachek.

[01:12:49] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Thanks. Um, so I will start by saying I am supportive of both of the projects and the development agreement. Um, a couple of other comments. I love the sundial at the Alta Housing project. That was very creative. I also like the fact that there will be a mural on the public storage building. And I agree with the comments about signage. It is important for folks to be able to find businesses. We have signs on other buildings that face 101. To me, this is no different. So it seems like that makes sense. As a member of the Santa Clara County Airport Land Use Commission Board. Although I recused myself when this project came before the ALUC, I do appreciate that you're complying with the requirements of the ALUC. Thank you for that. I had a couple of items I wanted to bring up, and we've talked about them a little bit, and the first is the undergrounding of the utilities along Terabella. So I was thinking about this before. You know, we typically require that of market rate, um, residential units. I completely understand why we would not do that in this case, because it does add to the cost. And it, um, throws a wrench in the whole, uh, plan here. But when I saw the slide that showed the third floor courtyard, and there are the utility lines right in front of it, I thought, oh, it's kind of worse than I thought. Um, so I appreciate there being undergrounded on San Rafael, um, but I actually would like them undergrounded on Terabella, too. And I was thinking maybe the city can help in that regard and pay for them. Um, you know, I think it's a good use of our funds. Um, I do want affordable housing, as was mentioned, to look as nice as market rate housing. And, um, I know we don't have any of the, I forget what it was called. Rule 20. Uh, funds to do that, but I think we could use some of our CIP dollars to do this. I'm not quite sure how it would work. Um, you know, I can think of different scenarios where the city does it, or the city just pays for it, and alta housing, um, has their contractor do it, but we pay for it, but, um, I guess, uh, I see perhaps, um, a comment from our public works director.

[01:15:28] Unknown Speaker: It's not bad. Thank you.

[01:15:34] Public Works Director Don Cameron: Good evening again. So, to answer your second question, how it would work, is if the city wanted to pay for the undergrounding, the odds are the best approach would be for the applicant to do the undergrounding with the reimbursement agreement from the city, because they will be doing all kinds of frontage work and tearing up roadway, and trying to coordinate a city project with them, could result in delaying their project or causing other problems. In terms of the city paying for it, as we noted in the question and answer for counsel, and as you've mentioned, historically, there have been two ways that we've had undergrounding. One is per city code. We can require developments that are include a subdivision to underground. This project does not include a subdivision, and therefore, would not meet... That's one of the reasons that it was not required of this project to underground the utility lines. The second way has historically been, as you said, the rule 20 A PG&E credits. Unfortunately, as we noted, our last Rule 28 project will be California Street. It's currently in design by PG&E. That program has now officially been discontinued statewide. So that is not a source we can tap into. If council desires or directs it, You will be, we are gonna be looking at the five year CIP and can bring back to you funding options. Staff took a quick swag app, because we had no engineering details and said we thought it could cost between $5750,000. But the applicant, apparently, has done a little more deeper look, and we're not surprised. Honestly, that they're saying a million. It is very expensive. And remember, this is not all of Terabella. This is just their frontage. It is very expensive. We are going to be short on CIP discretionary funds. And you will be hearing more about that, and we have a lot more demand for these funds in terms of projects and priorities than funding available. It doesn't mean that this can't be done, but we just want counsel to be aware of that. I will throw one possibility out for you to think about. We would consider as part of the CIP. We do have community benefits from the 1001 North Shoreline project. Council had previously directed that those community benefits go towards active transportation improvements for the Terabella area. We are planning to use that money for the feasibility study for the bike way, and to deliver any recommendations from that study for bike improvements. So, however, that amount of money is just over a million. so that if that was the source, it would basically divert the money from the bikeway project. So these are the considerations that we would have to think about and ask counsel to think about in terms of prioritize, or adding this work, to the project, and what it may mean for other CIP priorities.

[01:18:52] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: So, just to clarify, process wise, are you recommending, possibly bringing it forward when you bring the CIP back to us?

[01:19:02] Public Works Director Don Cameron: If counsel provides direction tonight, that they want us... Well, you don't even have to provide it tonight, honestly. We have a study session in two weeks. You will find that one of the questions that we are proposing will be, you know, are there any additional projects council would like us to evaluate for possible inclusion in the five year CIP.

[01:19:29] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Sorry. Would we need to include anything tonight about, you know, we want the city staff and the applicant to work together, um, based upon council direction, um, whether or not we want to do this? Do we need to add that? Do a, like, as part of the approval?

[01:19:47] City Attorney Jennifer Logue: I I would I do not think you would need to make it emotion. Uh, weaken, in general, if this is the desire, the majority of the council, we can take it as general direction, and it would be coming more through the CIP process that you would take any formal action.

[01:20:07] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Okay. Thank you. So, I'm hearing, one of the things I'm hearing procedurally is, when that comes back to us, the question will be raised of, do we have any additional projects, and our assignment would be to remember that we have an additional project.

[01:20:24] Mayor Alison Hicks: I think, yes, I think council member Ramirez has a question.

[01:20:27] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. I appreciate the questions from council member Mattachek. The solution, it sounds like, would be that the applicant, or applicants, bear that responsibility, and we would reimburse them, but that's a significant deviation from the project that's currently before us. right? So, and then they would need a million dollars somehow in order to actually do the work. We're not supplying them a million, so they would still need to capitalize it. So I'm hearing, we may not need to provide direction tonight, but they probably need to know if that's what the council wants, right?

[01:21:02] Public Works Director Don Cameron: I will have to look towards our community development staff, because what we typically do in these situations, the developer is gonna build something in our right away, that's more for the benefit of the city and the city community. It's not required as part of the development. We enter into a reimbursement agreement with the developer. And we have a standard form. We've done this on other projects where, you know, if they're willing, and it all works out, they go ahead and incorporate these improvements in their plans, but the city will reimburse them for the costs of design and construction of the improvements. I don't know if that would affect their plans tonight, versus it would be more reflected in their building permit plans. Go ahead.

[01:22:11] Mayor Alison Hicks: While we're waiting, I may ask the applicants if you're interested in working with the city on this project. Sorry.

[01:22:32] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Sorry, if I may just address counsel on a couple of items, um, one is, uh, we hear you that the interest is in making sure that there's undergrounding, um, along that street. Um, and Don and I have chatted briefly. Um, I think it would be helpful, counsel, to give preliminary direction to staff, to just included, um, uh, you know, in, in the five year CIP as an option to study, so counsel knows that it's, um, so staff knows it's on the, um, on the docket. But we also need some additional time to be able to work out what that reimbursement agreement would look like. Traditionally, yes, it is the applicant builds it, and the city reimburses, but we can talk to the applicant about what might work in public works, and bring back that option, or what it would look. like like As you know, we are advancing some funds to this project, and typically do for development costs, and we can talk about some of this. We don't have to resolve it all today.

[01:23:33] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: So if I'm hearing that right. procedurally, along with the motion that staff is recommended, if we go for that, um, we would also have a separate, could have a separate motion to include the undergrounding in the CIP.

[01:23:49] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: I would just say counsel wouldn't be making that decision, but just include studying it as a potential option when you do come back.

[01:23:58] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: So staff is just including it as an optional project, for your consideration.

[01:24:04] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Exactly. I would recommend that you not make that firm commitment to you have a chance to see the entirety of the CIP, all the project priorities, the funding sources, so that you know the trade offs that will be made, um, in order to prioritize, uh, spending this money on underground in the utilities. So, the direction I'm hearing for our staff is to be sure to include this project as a potential project in the CIP.

[01:24:37] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay, so that could be a separate motion to include it as a potential project in the CIP, and I believe that council member committee has something to say.

[01:24:46] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Yeah, thanks, Mayor. So, um, I... And I know that those on the, um, not on the days can't see. So the Council member Ramirez already moved the item, and I was happy to second it. I hadn't planned to speak. If we go down the route of underground in conversation, I feel like it would be best if I abstain on that conversation due to my employment. We're not specifically discussing the item, but just, I think, to keep it as clean as possible. I wouldn't be able to participate and just wanted to make that clear to the applicant, the public, as well as, um, my colleagues that I, that is why I cannot entertain anything with that, just, like, to keep all separate. Thank you. So... I'm assuming that's a separate motion that you can refrain from them. Should it go down that path? I'm not sure where we're going, but I'm feeling a little, getting a little clammy. So I thought that before we go forward, I just wanted to be to let colleagues know where I'm coming from. I think that's an important part of the discussion. Thank you.

[01:25:49] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you. Vice mayor?

[01:25:54] Vice Mayor Pat Showalter: Well, do we want to finish? Well, I just wanted to make a comment about this project. I'm really delighted about this project. I think it's particularly innovative, and I wanted to talk about some of the things that I think are innovative about it. First of all, anytime, two businesses get together to work on a project like this, they are really to be congratulated. Thank you so much for doing this. I think that you have this land swap, essentially, that you are working on, is creating a much better project for both of you. And certainly, that means we're getting a much better project for the city of Mountain View. And that's the kind of thing that government we can't say to you, you know, you have to switch your land. We can't do that. That's something you have to do for us. You have to see the improvement and take care of it. And I just want to thank you for doing that. I know that it was brought up by a number of people as a possibility. We're always looking at how we can shift puzzle pieces. But just because we look at how we can shift puzzle pieces is very different from the people who own those puzzle pieces, saying, Yes, let's go forward like that. So thank you so much for doing that. Another thing, I think, is innovative that we haven't talked about, is the staff's utilization of the East Whisman plan for this. You know, we have a lot of zoning standards. They go back a long way in many cases, but we sort of had a fresh set for high density, residential, in the development of the East Westman precise plan. And one of the things that I think was so valuable about that is that develop that precise plan. And we had a lot of stakeholder input. And so I think that the fact that we took advantage of all of that effort that was used in the East Whisman precise plan to develop those standards, and we applied them to this project where they are applicable, reasonably applicable, was very innovative, and I wanted to mention it, and thank you for doing that. And I'm delighted, and, of course, to see this project come forward, and, of course, we'll be voting yes.

[01:28:17] Mayor Alison Hicks: Council member Ramos.

[01:28:20] Councilmember Emily Ramos: Thank you Mayor. I am in support of both projects. I'm also in support of a developer agreement of the developer agreement, having signage from the freeway that is necessary for your business to be effective and running. Um, I like the fact that it's the storage, um, business that's going to be up against the freeway. If anything was going to be up against the freeway. I rather have that than homes, which is great. With land so scarce. I'm happy that you came up with an innovative solution so that we could be more efficient with the land. And, uh, like uh, vice mayor Shal Walter said, we can't tell you to do that, but if you come up with those solutions yourselves, because it's your private property, that's wonderful. I think this is something that should be celebrated and I am supportive of a nice clean motion. So, um, council member Kame doesn't have to get too worried right now. So I believe we're gonna have a motion in a moment in support of the project.

[01:29:26] Mayor Alison Hicks: I just wanted to say a few words, I agree with all the complimentary things that my peers have mentioned. I think the one thing that's left, that hasn't been said, that I can think of is that I like the improvement of the sidewalk, and that it's seven feet wide. There's a planning strip that separates people from the street for both safety and to make the walk market. pleasant, and also the, I forget the number of feet, but a significant number of feet between the sidewalk and the door, so that the stoops can be used more, and people get a feeling of privacy, and people can have green spaces on both sides. And I hope, as Mr. Jeans has mentioned, that that's the beginning of continual improvement to the walkability and bikeability of the area that makes it feel more like a home for people. So with that, Council member Ramirez. Do have a motion?

[01:30:22] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, Mayor. I will be moving the staff recommendation very briefly first. I just want to reiterate the comments that my colleagues have made, very strongly support the project. It is an excellent example of what could be achieved through the gatekeeper process. And I appreciate everyone who helped encourage each of the property owners to collaborate and bring to us to, I think, excellent projects that I'm glad to hear there's unanimous support for. So, with that, I will move to adopt a resolution of the city council, of the city of Mountain View, adopting the initial study slash mitigated negative declaration for the Terabella public storage and all to Housing Affordable Housing Projects, located at 1020 Terabella Avenue, and 1055 San Leandro Avenue, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act, to be read, entitled only for the reading waived. Adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View, approving a general plan map amendment from general industrial to high density residential, for 1020 Terabella Avenue, and a general plan text amendment to allow an increase in the maximum floor area ratio, FAR, from 0.55, far to 2.05, far, in the general industrial land. use designation for uses, with limited employees, and customers that provide a significant public benefit toward affordable housing to be read entitled only, further reading waived, introduce an ordinance of the city of Mountain View approving a zoning map amendment from the MM General Industrial Zoning District to a P planned community, zoning district, for the properties located at 1020 Terabelle Avenue, 1040 Terabella Avenue, to be read entitled only, further reading waived, and set a second reading for March 28, 2023. Adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View, approving a planned community permit, and a development review permit, to construct a six story affordable housing development, with 106 affordable rental units, and two managers units, for a two level podium garage, and a state density bonus, with a concession, on a 1.04 acre project site at 1020 Terabella Avenue, to be read entitled only for the reading wave. Adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View, approving a planned community permit and development review permit to construct six story and four story personal storage buildings with at grade parking on a 3.8 acre project site at 1040 Tarabella Avenue and 1055 San Leandro Avenue, to be read in title only for the reading waived, and introduce an ordinance of the city of Mountain View approving a development agreement by and between the city of Mountain View and public storage for the Tarabella Public Storage Project for public storage located at 1040 Tarabella Avenue, and 1055 San Leandro Avenue, to be read entitled only further reading waived, and set a second reading for March 20, 2023, and I forgot, thank you, staff, for working on this. I know this is a complex project, a lot of challenging components, in addition to the collaboration of the property owners. I think we would be remiss in not congratulating you for helping bring both of these projects to the finish line. Thank you.

[01:33:38] Mayor Alison Hicks: And we have a second by council member, so we can vote.

[01:33:43] City Attorney Jennifer Logue: Sorry, if I can just ask, um, we do need the council to read in the correction about the date. I believe it's attachments 2, 3, and four. Two, 3 and four, the date needs to be today's date that's revised.

[01:34:01] Mayor Alison Hicks: Sorry, we're correcting the 2nd reading date? I'm sorry.

[01:34:05] City Attorney Jennifer Logue: in the actual documents themselves. They list the wrong date. So for attachments 2, 3, 4, and 5. Instead of March 28, we need it to be revised to March 14th.

[01:34:16] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay, thank you. So, uh, do I need to read that or say as corrected by staff? Is that sufficient?

[01:34:25] City Attorney Jennifer Logue: Yes, you can just say as corrected by staff.

[01:34:29] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay, well then... The staff recommendation that I've just read with the corrections read into the record by staff. Thank you.

[01:34:39] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay, now we can vote. Has this unanimously, and now there is some discussion of undergrounding and the CIP council member Mattachek?

[01:34:55] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Oh. Yes, in the motion for the, yes.

[01:35:03] City Attorney Jennifer Logue: You can just No, you don't have to physically leave. You can just recuse and not participate, yes.

[01:35:10] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay, council member Mattachek. No, no, you can stay. Please stay.

[01:35:19] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Um, yeah, I just wanted to, um, see if there's support for, uh, asking Steph to bring back a CIP for the undergrounding of the utilities, it would be to reimburse the applicant, all to housing, uh, for doing the work, and I guess maybe if Mr. Suda, uh, he's standing there. I don't know if you had anything you wanted to add to this before I summarize what I was gonna ask staff to do.

[01:35:47] Public Speaker: No, I know several minutes ago, uh, council member Ramirez asked for applicant input on this topic, and, yeah, we were happy to continue to have these conversations with counsel and staff. Um, well, needs, probably need some flexibility on the placement of where those lines get underground, such that we don't jeopardize the landscape scheme, or the building placement, things like that. So there's all these details that Don knows, Don, and I were talking about this, that we know we need to talk about. And also, we need to have work out some details on the timing of that money, since we would need the money, also up front, rather than as a typical reimbursement. But, uh, happy to continue working on that, our only request is that we get direction on this relatively soon so that we can prepare the drawings and submit those with our building permit, uh, requests later on this year.

[01:36:43] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yep, that makes sense. I wouldn't want to do anything that delays this project. And so, since we're talking about CIP's next council meeting, right? Um, so in a couple weeks, um, to have staff bring back a CIP that we can consider for inclusion, um, in the five years. CIP to underground the utilities on Terabella in front of this project.

[01:37:07] Mayor Alison Hicks: Council member Ramirez, you have a comment?

[01:37:09] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, Mayor. I guess a question. I think I'm okay with the direction, but I just want to make, I want to be absolutely certain. The applicant is comfortable with this direction that the two weeks won't, in any way, delay or impede the project. Okay, so with the consent of the applicant, then, then I'm comfortable with the direction.

[01:37:36] Mayor Alison Hicks: So, Council member Matachek, would you like to make a motion?

[01:37:40] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Um, I think that was it. Yes, I'll make a motion that we direct staff to what I said before. Thanks.

[01:37:47] Mayor Alison Hicks: I can just do that, right? Don't you repeat it all?

[01:37:53] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: I mean, no, I think that we could probably go back and figure it all out. I'm happy to repeat it. So, um, it's to direct staff to bring back in two weeks, when we evaluate our CIPs for the next five years. Um, Bring back this as a CIP so that we can consider it um, in light of all the other CIPs we have. Um, and make a decision if we want to go forward with it. Thank you.

[01:38:20] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you. And we have a seconder, the vice mayor, so we can vote. So, motion passes, six. Yes, one abstain. Okay, so now we're moving on to item 7.1 on your agenda, which is the shoreline wildlife management plan. Shoreline Manager, Brady Rubush, and Steve Rottenborn, Vice President, and Wildlife Ecologists, from H.T. Harvey and Associates, will present the item.

[01:40:02] Shoreline Manager Brady Rubush: Good evening, mayor and council members. Thank you. Sorry, I'm not quite seasoned at this, so it took me a little while to get set up. Uh, tonight, we're gonna present to you the Shoreline Wildlife Management plan. With me, I have Steve, Rottmorton from HT Harvey and Associates, the consultant that's been working with us. We also have Phil Higgins, our biologist and wildlife preservation coordinator here to answer questions, who's on our city staff, as well as the community service director and assistant community services director, John and Brenda, who I think you know pretty well. To start off, the background purpose and boundaries of the Shoreline Wildlife Management plan. This was an item on the 201921 Council Goals work plan. It carried over onto the current council goal strategic map. This plan fits into a framework of plans. And we wanted to clarify that. There was a lot of questions that from the public when we went to PRC. This is not replacing the borrowing out preservation plan. It is not overriding the North Bay Shore Precise Plan EIR. It fits within that framework and kind of addresses areas that aren't necessarily covered by those other documents. That includes our postclosure maintenance plan, the sea level rise studies, and all of those. It works within that framework, not overriding, or replacing any of those. The purpose of the plan is to consolidate and create one stop shop for kind of all the governing principles we have for our wildlife, the county, local, state, and federal level. That's what Section 2 is, which Steve will be talking about. And then also to cover best practices for maintenance and address projects for preserving and enhancing habitat within shoreline. The boundaries of the plan, our shoreline, and then they also include the Egret Rookery and Charleston retention basin, which were added through the public input process. All three of these areas have unique ecological characteristics, and there are also areas that the city has control over. So we can monitor, control the maintenance of them, and so we felt these were the best boundaries to have for the plan. For the public input process, we kicked off the public input process on March 9th at a PRC meeting. We created an annotated outline, which was shared at that time. We then went through a series of meetings with stakeholder groups. And then in June and July. We did a public input survey. We had a five minute video created by HT Harvey and Associates that was on the website, summarizing the plan. We had the annotated outline available on the plan, and then we collected survey results, which were summarized by HT Harvey, and then that input was incorporated into the plan, as well as presented to the PRC in February. I will get to the what came out of the February PRC later in the presentation. And with that, I'm going to hand it over to H.D. Harvey.

[01:42:43] Steve Rottenborn: Thank you, Brady. So this slide provides an overview of the chapters in the wildlife management plan, and the introduction describes the purpose and focus of the plan, and its relationship to other wildlife management, habitat restoration, and biodiversity efforts in the region. Although the shoreline area supports large numbers of wildlife species. The plan focuses on increasing and maintaining biodiversity by focusing on those species that are found primarily at shoreline, the species that make shoreline a special place. The plan also discusses the local, state, and federal guidelines and regulations governing wildlife at shoreline, the ecosystems, habitats, and wildlife movement corridors there, the special status species and nesting birds that use shoreline, the umbrella species, and we'll talk a little bit more about them, in a minute, on which the plan focuses to conserve habitats, how undesirable plant and animal species, and pathogens will be managed. Habitat management, enhancement, restoration, and landscaping, and how wildlife management a shoreline occurs while respecting landfill operations and burrowing out habitat management, and finally, protocols and procedures for implementing the plan. The plan describes the ecosystems and habitats of shoreline, the dominant plants and animals that use those habitats, habitat connectivity, and wildlife movement, and recommendations for managing wildlife and wildlife habitats at shoreline. So there are a number of rare and protected species, special status species at shoreline, and these are all discussed in the plan. There's one rare plant. Well talk about that, even though this is a wildlife management plan. Condon's tar plant is a rare plant that occurs at Shoreline, and we made sure that nothing that we described in terms of wildlife management conflicted with the conservation, the continued conservation of that plant. And in addition, as you can see, on this slide, there are numerous special status animals that use shoreline. The plan also discusses the many common species that occur at Shoreline. For example, there are large numbers of species of birds that nest a shoreline, and the plan discusses these species, when and where they nest, and how human activities can occur at shoreline while minimizing disturbance of these birds in their nests. Next. So the plan uses five umbrella species to represent the entire wildlife community at Shoreline, with each umbrella species representing other common and special status species that use similar habitats. And those umbrella species are the black skimmer, which represents island nesting birds, birds that forge in open water habitats. California Ridgeway's Rail, which represents tidal salt marsh birds and mammals, the white tailed kite, which represents grassland foraging species and birds that nest in trees. San Francisco common yellow throat, representing animals that use brackish and freshwater marsh habitats, and, finally, monarch butterfly, which represents grassland invertebrates and other butterfly species. The idea is, the conservation of these umbrella species and their habitats will not only benefit these species, but the entire suite of wildlife that occurs at Shoreline. The plan outlines guidelines for how management and maintenance will occur at Shoreline to benefit wildlife and to avoid adverse effects on those species. It discusses landfill operations and the constraints to activities on the landfill. You all know, habitat management on the landfill is already designed to focus on burrowing owls per the burrowing owl preservation plan, and, like Brady said, we didn't want anything in this plan to conflict with the burrowing owl habitat management that's already being done out there or to conflict with the landfill operations, the monitoring and the operations that go on out there. The plan describes protocols and procedures for how the plan is going to be implemented. For example, including project evaluations performed by a qualified biologist to identify potential impacts, and the appropriate conservation measures, staff training, and periodic review, and updates to the standard operating procedures. And finally, the plan discusses habitat enhancement and restoration projects, including the details of some specific potential restoration projects, and discusses how wildlife movement and habitat connectivity at shoreline can be enhanced and maintained. And with this, I'll pass it back to Brady.

[01:47:27] Shoreline Manager Brady Rubush: Steve. Thank you, Steve. Um, and so, uh, last time I talk about reporting an adaptive management. This is also the last section of the plan. This discusses how the plan will be reviewed based on updated updates to regulations, best practices, and species occurrences, and provides a framework for feedback so that current monitoring can help determine if projects or practices are achieving their desired benefits. So this will be a living document, because it reflects existing regulations that are already out there by other agencies. We need to be able to make sure that it's flexible enough for us to adapt it and update it. When we took this to the PRC in February, they recommended to adopt the Shoreline Wildlife Management plan, they also recommended to have staff return annually to present the findings from the annual report to them, and then to have staff prioritize the Saline Lake Island project. With that, we brought that to you. And the annual presentation to PRC is really the annual check in on how projects are doing. It's so that they can also talk about prioritization, budget, and next steps on projects, such as the Sailing Lake Island Project, which has come up a lot. We wanted to clarify that we actually have a CIP in the current fiscal year that is taking the first steps to explore what type of erosion control or expansion would be possible with the sailing lake island, so it's sort of like a feasibility study, but I don't think that's the right word. But we're gonna be looking at it to determine kind of the resources, next steps, the permitting requirements, depending on what type of restoration we do for the island, that determines what permitting is triggered. And so it'll be looking at that. And then, lastly, as part of the annual presentation to PRC, staff will provide updates on those projects associated with the plan. Should any changes to the plan be greater than a project update? That would go through a full review process like we did for the adoption of the plan and bring it to you with stakeholder staff and others. And so with that, we'll conclude and say thank you.

[01:49:24] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you. So, do any members of the council have questions? Council member Ramirez?

[01:49:41] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, Mayor. I've got a few. First, thank you, staff, for preparing the report for the plan. It is comprehensive and I was pleased to see a significant amount of support from the community and from the stakeholders who I know you've been working with diligently. So thank you for the preparation of the plan. A couple of questions that I've gotten from some of the stakeholders. How many Rangers do we have right now enforcing the various policies and regulations out in Shoreline?

[01:50:18] Shoreline Manager Brady Rubush: Currently, we are budgeted for 3 full-time Rangers and then host of hourly Rangers. The Ranger program, as you may recall, was Broughton House in 2018, and we started as kind of a pilot study with one full-time Ranger and a lot of hourlies in order to kind of see where we would need Ranger support in terms of locations and time and time of the week seasonal. And then in 2020, after March 2020, we brought onto full-time positions of Rangers. So what's interesting is that 2022 summer is actually the first summer, arguably, that we actually had our full ranger program and a fully operating shoreline. But so we are looking at that. But right now, it's three full-time Rangers, and then we have budget for hourly Rangers for support.

[01:51:13] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. And then full-time, is that just business hours? Does that include making sure folks aren't, uh, at Shoreline after hours? And, um, so what are, what are the days and the hours where we have coverage out there?

[01:51:30] Shoreline Manager Brady Rubush: Um, when we are fully staffed, uh, we have coverage basically from uh, 7 AM till 10 PM standard, but then we also schedule Rangers for event support. So it'll vary depending on concerts, private events out at Shoreline at the Ringsdorf House or other facilities out there. Um, but the standard is uh, 7 AM to 10 PM, uh, 7 days a week.

[01:51:56] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Okay, thank you. And then do the Rangers have the ability to give out citations, and I guess, what is the limit of their authority?

[01:52:07] Shoreline Manager Brady Rubush: Currently, our Rangers are educational. They do not have citation authority. And that was by design, when we brought the program in-house, mostly due to what happens after citations and the enforcement aspect of it, and kind of the time that that takes, and how that would interact with PD. And so, um, previously before we brought it in house, they also didn't have citation authority, and it seemed effective. And so that's where we've started with it, is right now it's educational informational and more just having a presence.

[01:52:39] Unknown Speaker: Okay, and then do Rangers ever call the police when there are violators who are refusing to comply.

[01:52:46] Unknown Speaker: Yes, they can. They have radios that are tied into dispatch, and so they are aware when things are happening in the park, the public safety is replying to police or otherwise. And then, yes, they will, they have a good relationship with PD in terms of response to different items along the trails and in shoreline.

[01:53:02] Unknown Speaker: Okay. Do we have problems after the park is closed?

[01:53:08] Unknown Speaker: Uh, yes, I wouldn't say there's a chronic problem, but I wouldn't say that we never have visitors after hours, either. Um, and so, uh, yeah, I don't have statistics on that for you. Um, but, uh, to say that no public show up to Shoreline after hours would definitely not be true.

[01:53:27] Unknown Speaker: Fair enough. Okay. That might be helpful to quantify at some point. And then for, I should know this, but I'm guessing the public is not allowed to access the saline lake island, right? That would be trespassing if they were to step onto the iPhone.

[01:53:45] Unknown Speaker: Correct. We currently have a buoy system and lines that are surrounding the island and a buffer of, I believe, 100 feet around the island. Um, that uh, to keep uh, sound like users and recreational users off of it.

[01:53:59] Unknown Speaker: Okay, and then do the employees who are working with the boat rentals, educating the people who are renting the boats, so they know that they can't cross the buoys?

[01:54:10] Unknown Speaker: Yes, that is part of it. They have a lot to convey to those that are going out on the boats in terms of safety and life-saving and all that. Um, so I don't know uh, when you're, uh, you know, a 13 year old hopping in a boat and worried about your life jacket and slipping off the dock. I don't know how much it sinks in. But yes, they are informed and instructed by our sand lake operator.

[01:54:32] Unknown Speaker: Okay, that's helpful. And then if there are violations, people go to the island and cause problems, who's liable for that?

[01:54:48] Unknown Speaker: I'm gonna see if John can come in here and...

[01:54:52] Community Services Director John Marchant: Good evening, John Marchant Community Services director. There is a difference between a boat user who might be learning to sail and getting close to the island and needs to be pulled away versus someone who is trying to get onto the island. I am not aware of folks actually trying to get on the island recently. However, if they were seen doing that, depending on who sees it, and, um, who they call, if it's the city staff, we would call our ranger out to ensure that they go make contact with the boat operator, they would send somebody out to make contact, bring them back, and then determine that the next steps from there, depending on how the conversation goes, whether they were stranded, something else went when something else happened. So it's just a matter of situational awareness, and, you know, what the purpose of that person's them accessing the lake, if they did, or the island, if they did, if it was on purpose, we would take certain action compared to, I didn't know what else to do, and was just waiting for help. So, I think it's just a case by case basis.

[01:56:00] Unknown Speaker: Understood. Thank you. Last question. Do the Rangers prioritize certain areas of the park?

[01:56:08] Unknown Speaker: Uh, yes, it varies depending on what's happening. So, obviously, if we're having a whole bunch of special events on a weekend, there'll be more around the facilities. If we have a 5K 10K, they'll be focused on that route. If there was a car break in, We'll probably patrol the parking lots more. And then our Rangers also help with the barbecue areas and urban parks and do patrol other areas, like off leash areas and urban parks, if there's reports from the public that folks aren't staying in the off leash areas. We'll usually send a ranger or something like that. And so, yeah, we they have their kind of standard routes that they follow, depending on, again, the season, the time of day. time of week. And then if there are incidences that they respond to, then they'll focus on different areas.

[01:56:53] Unknown Speaker: Okay, thank you very much. Those are my questions.

[01:56:56] Mayor Alison Hicks: Council member Matic.

[01:56:59] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Um, so actually, you just said something that was very interesting. So the Rangers cover more than Shoreline. They're covering the trails and all the parks of the city. The three full time ones.

[01:57:11] Unknown Speaker: They do. Their primary focus, and they're based out of shoreline, and Shoreline is the primary focus, but then they will respond to other incidences, issues, concerns from residents around the city.

[01:57:23] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Okay. And, um, I just want to clarify, uh, the feasibility study for, uh, the island at the sailing lake. Um, is, I think you said when you described it, that it's not just for stopping the erosion, but it is for restoring the island. Does that mean like restoring it to its original size?

[01:57:47] Unknown Speaker: I don't think we're at a place necessarily where we're gonna be going into that level of detail, but I think it's more exploring what resources would be required for that, kind of what it would entail to restore it at all to its original size. Really, at this point, I think it's pretty broad. I'm gonna let Don hop in, though, because her group's overseen that.

[01:58:09] Public Works Director Don Cameron: Thank you. I spoke with staff just a couple hours ago about it. We have a request for proposals going out later this week, and we're, you know, confirming that the scope of work includes looking at a variety of alternatives that will be from erosion control for the existing island sizes out there today to restoring it to its original size, and looking at what's involved in both alternatives, and, you know, in terms of, you know, the type of work that's evolved, level of difficulty, the permitting that it could create, and it truly is, it's like a feasibility study. And once we have that information, uh, can bring back forward to counsel for consideration of which alternative, uh, we would be working on pursuing.

[01:59:08] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Great. Um, let's see. And then, um... I'll show my glasses. Um, in Section 9, um, wildlife connectivity. As I read that, that project will be done without council direction, is that correct?

[01:59:30] Unknown Speaker: To do it. Um, which uh, project in section nine?

[01:59:35] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: In section 9, it talks about doing a lot of planting so that there is connectivity for wildlife. That's a kind of a general, uh, guideline, not necessarily a specific project.

[01:59:49] Unknown Speaker: Um, we uh, last year, 2 years ago, we completed a three-year habitat restoration project, uh, along the uh, Bank of Permanente Creek that feeds into that kind of planting and corridor. Uh, building enhancing. And so, um, that's more referencing kind of a series of projects that we would be looking at undertaking. I don't think we would bring it to council unless it was part of some sort of grant process where we would require approval. But the idea being that those smaller projects would be something that we would handle at the staff level, unless it was a budgetary concern, resource concern, partnership agreement concern that we would come to council for.

[02:00:29] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Okay, so that would be the same for in Section 10, the landscaping. So those were general things that there's smaller projects that will happen. as a result of this plan.

[02:00:40] Unknown Speaker: Correct. And to be honest, a lot of it's already happening, and the plan really just seeks to kind of put it into writing, so we have it written down somewhere in terms of best practices for landscaping, and then looking at those areas. But yes, those maps and those would be something we would handle at more at the staff level than coming to council unless needed to.

[02:00:56] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Okay, great. Thank you. Yes, mayor.

[02:01:01] Mayor Alison Hicks: I just wanted to confirm, we've been talking about the community shoreline, the money that's associated with it. And I just wanted to confirm that this, all of this will be funded by through the shoreline community.

[02:01:22] Unknown Speaker: Based on the slurry of nodding heads, I will say yes.

[02:01:25] Mayor Alison Hicks: I just wanted to get that out there. I think it's important.

[02:01:28] Unknown Speaker: No, it will be. And that's part of the reason why we also pick these boundaries again for our shoreline staff and what we can oversee.

[02:01:33] Mayor Alison Hicks: Great. I have some comments, but we're just doing questions now.

[02:01:38] Unknown Speaker: And I will just step in and say yes regarding the funding from Shoreline. Um, other than grant funding that we receive from other agencies. So, we have utilized grant funding in the past and look forward to continuing to look for those opportunities to meet the desires and what is in the shoreline wildlife management plan, utilizing grant funding as much as we can, and then also, but the baseline is shoreline funding.

[02:02:04] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you. Council member, Epicoga.

[02:02:07] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mayor. Um, going back to the Rangers. Are we fully staffed with the 3 plus the part, is it hourly or part time?

[02:02:18] Unknown Speaker: Currently, we are not. We had a retirement recently and another Ranger has gotten another full-time job elsewhere whose last day is Friday. down the one right now. With hour lease. And so we're supplementing with hourly support right now for coverage. And the program is kind of designed that way so that if a full-time ranger is out, we can bring an hour lease to help cover for that.

[02:02:40] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Got it. Um, and then it seems like 3 plus the hourly is it's quite a bit of geography to cover. Um, I remember when we were trying to protect the brewing owls or issues with people sticking bottles in their, you know, burrows and whatnot, but, um, you know, there's a lot of interest with the island too. Do we have signage, like that, you know, warns people not to not to disturb these habitats, um, like what else can we be doing? It seems like the 3 only 3 rangers, it's, right? By the time something happens, it's probably going to be too late for them to get there to stop it. So are there other, I guess, monitoring and enforcement measures we're taking?

[02:03:33] Unknown Speaker: No, absolutely. Great question. So we do have extensive signage at Shoreline. And it's one of the things that we are looking to always improve and expand upon, whether it's interpretive, informational or enforcement, I guess, for lack of a better word. And then we also do have a lot of good community enforcement, honestly, from the public and the public being able to see what's going on and inform people. The knowledge of shoreline, the knowledge of the burrowing owl is actually quite surprising when you get out there and in it, and about how many people commonly in Mountain View know about it. And so we're fortunate that we have an active community that also participates. And then lastly, you know, while we only have 3 full-time Rangers in an hourly support, we also have other staff that are within Shoreline that are also aware of the rules. And to be honest, a lot of times if they're venturing off the trails and into somewhere they shouldn't be, whether or not it's habitat, it's not safe, and it's not a good idea for them. And so city staff in general can intervene and help. And so, but yeah, those are kind of the proactive, I guess, is the word for it, that we have so that we're not just reacting with Rangers.

[02:04:48] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: And I'll ask a question. You know, a lot of the area in question is a golf course, and I asked briefly as a written question earlier, whether there was any consideration of making that more natural landscaping or if the grasslands, as it is, are fine. I got an answer saying that, uh, that, uh, redoing it or refurbishing it, I may be using the wrong word, is is upcoming. But I'm wondering if you have more information on that. Is there, um, you know, is there any idea of doing more natural landscaping something that, uh, could be habitat, or is that not a good idea at a golf course area? I'm familiar with, I think, Scottish golf, I think, more natural golf, and I think the Palo Alto golf course was converted to dry landscaping or a Scottish golf course or something of that sort. So any information on that would be helpful.

[02:05:48] Public Works Director Don Cameron: Sharon, just to add on to the comments that were provided to you in the Q and A, the golf course, we believe, will need a renovation sometime in the next 10 years or so. Um, and first, we need to look at what's, um, similar to the island, being able to do a study, what is it that we can do, given the fact that we have so many protected species, we need to go through and see what a renovation looks like, and what can we do without impacting the existing wildlife and environment that we have and ensuring that we can get environmental clearance to do that. And then the second phase is to look at design of which absolutely can look at some of the habitat improvements on the golf course to help the specific wildlife that we're looking to bring into that area. And so it's just a matter of looking at the design component at that time. So right now, I can't tell you that that is going to happen, but certainly, when the time comes, that is a design concept we can look at.

[02:06:48] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you very much. Last call for council questions. Saying none. Um, would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on this item? If so, please click the raised hand button in Zoom. or submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk. We'll take in person speakers first. Okay, at your request, we will take online speakers first. So, first, we have Matthew Daughter.

[02:07:34] Matthew Daughter: Good evening. My name is Matthew Daughter, I hope you can hear me. I am the executive director of Santa Clara Velli Audubon Society, and I'm also a resident of Mountain View for the past 40 years. And during that time, I visited Shoreline well over a thousand times. Um, Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society has a lot of programs at Shoreline, the retention basin, and Igret Rookery on Shorebird Way. So between the visits that I've been there and the old people that we take there and show the the beauty of the animals and wildlife, Many, many 100s of people have come there. And we've got many hundreds of Audubon members living in Mountain View. They all love shoreline because of the diversity of the animals there. We also have a really vivid education program that takes third, fourth, and fifth graders, to shoreline, and Charleston Slough, to show them the wildlife and diversity that's there. So many, many 100s of people enjoy this place because of the diversity. With regard to the island, black skimmers nest there, this is a recent addition to the island, Forster's terns, American habitat, blackneck, stilts, killdeer. Last year, we even had a visiting black tern, which is proof that the work on the island is benefiting the wildlife there. Disturbance to that island is extremely important because nesting birds will abandon their nests, leaving them open to predators. So we really are very pleased with Mountain View for prioritizing biodiversity in the work plan. It recognizes the importance of biodiversity, and Mountain View is no exception to that. So we want to thank the city for all the work they've done with this, and look forward to protecting species at Shoreline Park, and seeing it flourish with the animals and wildlife that we love so much. Thank you very much for your time.

[02:09:26] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you. And now, Annette hurts?

[02:09:35] Annette: Hello, um, hello, this is Annette. Um, I am one of the aforementioned active members of the community, I guess. I live in Mount Mew, for, I guess, 17 years now, and originally from Germany, and I love living here, and not in small parts because of all that the city does in the city of Mount Mew, and one of them is, of course, our nature, including Shoreline Park. And years ago, I volunteered for the Santa Clara Valley Audubon, when we advocated for the borrowing our preservation. And I was so happy to see this coming to reality. I do know that all this advocacy and going to city council meetings. It's hard work and it's great to see something so rewarding coming out of it. And so I would like to express my support and that of many of my friends for that wildlife plan at Shoreline. And I would like to press out with the importance this has for not just, you know, our enjoyment as residents, but, you know, for the biodiversity as a whole and with the climate change, you know, we do need biodiversity for our own survival as well. So, um, I would like to uh, um, mention that the support of all the wild species of shoreline park, the equid rookery and the uh, Charleston retention base should take, um, precedence over any human enjoyment, and I actually have called the ranger myself, uh, recently on, uh, some people that do get too close to the island and to wildlife at Shoreline Lake, um, that seems to be a continued problem in that um, case. It was a soup peddler that kept on going too close to the thing and playing loud music. And I also want to express my things to the ranger, who was very professional and friendly and very helpful, and I hope we can fill that open position soon because we do need those rangers to impose all the regulations, to protect wildlife, especially on that island, that I think is especially prone to disturbance by people. So, thank you very much.

[02:11:57] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you. And now Casey Headerly?

[02:12:05] Casey Headerly: Good evening, Mayor Hicks and council members. My name is Casey Headerly, and I'm a volunteer with the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society. FCVIS has been advocating for development of the shoreline wildlife management plan for 5 years. The preparation of the SWMP was expected to start in 2019, but it was delayed due to COVID and eventually incorporated into the work plan for the council priority of preserving biodiversity in Mountain View. During the COVID restrictions the importance of an effective SWMP became clearer than ever. Wildlife thrived during the stay at home period. Later, as people started visiting parks in greater numbers than ever, public appreciation of wildlife and nature, as well as visitor impacts on wildlife and habitat became evident. The wildlife of Shoreline must be protected and their habitat cherished if they are to persist in our landscape. The SWMP achieves most of our hopes and expectations. It clarifies the regulatory framework and requirements that protect species in their habitat and captures best practices that are currently employed by city staff in producting and providing the species that call shoreline homes. It develops in documents standard operating procedures and protocols for evaluating new and ongoing projects, such as the landfill, public works, recreation, events, etcetera, in an adaptive management approach. We ask you tonight to approve the plan and accept the parks and recreation commission recommendations, to provide an annual presentation to the PRC, and to prioritize capital investment projects, to ensure that special wildlife assets are protected and enhanced, especially the island in the sailing lake. The biggest threat to wildlife is visitor access and activities. We need to maintain and increase the protection of wildlife and critical habitat areas, especially during the nesting season. Thank you.

[02:14:06] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you. And seeing no more virtual hands, uh, Shawnee Kleinhouse.

[02:14:19] Shawnee Kleinhouse: Thank you. Thank you for your work for the community and for the wildlife of Shoreline Park. I've started advocating for the wildlife of Shoreline Park, about 12 years ago, with the borrowing owl management plan at a time, then it was called the preservation plan, which was the right name for And, you know, initially, I came starting to advocate for something, and I found out I was bursting into an open door. This city has done more than any other city, in this area, to protect a very unique set of wildlife at Shoreline, and Shoreline is richer for that, in many ways, and we see that, we see the skimers showing up, and they weren't there all that many years ago. The borrowing hours are still there, surprisingly enough, they're almost extinct anywhere else in the South Bay. So, it was really important to capture the adaptive management methods and all the information that your stuff has been doing, all the work that I've been doing. So, if a new Ranger comes in, they'll have something to learn from, and that potentially, I can take this plan to Palo Alto and say, hey, look, so, um, I really want to thank you, and also, you know, the staff, the consultant that worked on it, and the, um, PRC, that looked really deeply into it. I hope the island can get fixed soon, because if we lose that, there is a huge asset lost. I hope the egrets continue to nest in mountain view. And the beautiful little bird with yellow, with a yellow bird with a black mask, which is the colonial throat continues to thrive here. It is important to balance activities with nature conservation, and it's difficult, and in mountain view, especially with all the many, many activities, and the landfill, and protection of wildlife. You succeeded so far, it's important to continue, and it's important to allocate the resources needed for that. Thank you so much.

[02:16:29] Mayor Alison Hicks: And welcome, Councilman Ramos. I haven't had the chance to congratulate you.

[02:16:36] Councilmember Emily Ramos: Thank you very much.

[02:16:38] Mayor Alison Hicks: Now we're going to bring the item back for council, deliberation, and action. Vice mayor.

[02:16:48] Vice Mayor Pat Showalter: Well, I'm delighted that this is coming before us. Um, it's, uh, it's the kind of thing in my, my professional, like, I would have worked on, but I didn't work on this plan. But anyway, I'm just delighted to see it. There are a couple things I want to bring to everybody's attention first. One is a little bit about the history of Shoreline Park. If we had been there 50 years ago, it would have looked so different, because basically, it was a dump, and the City Fathers of Mountain View said, Well, okay, we got this dump, but sort of, what can we do to, you know, turn this around and make it even better? Maybe, so what they did was, they bought, or they allowed San Francisco to bring their garbage, to Mountain View, to a landfill, and they collected money for that. And that money was to be used to develop this park, which I think most of us would agree, is the crown jewel of Mountain View. I mean, it's just a wonderful resource. And they raised the surface area approximately nine feet. I don't think anybody back there was thinking back then was thinking about climate change, but if they had been, it was a really brilliant thing to do, to raise this shoreline 9 feet, and that money has been the seed money for many, many things that we have all benefited from. So I just wanted to mention that, because I think that sometimes you don't think back to... I mean, 50 years ago, wasn't really that long ago. And think of maybe, maybe we're doing something now that'll have an impact 50 years from now. I don't know. It'd be nice to think. But anyway, what they did in collecting that garbage here, building landfill, was really great. And another thing that's good about it is, it's not a super old landfill, we know exactly where those landfill cells are, and that means we can do an excellent job of determining what are the uses that are safe on top of that landfill. And we continue to do that, and we must continue to do that. But, um, because it's a, you know, it's a really modern landfill, and it was well mapped and well, you know, and well operated. That's, you know, that's an opportunity we have, and we all benefit from that. So I just wanted to give everybody a little bit of a history lesson. Because I think it's, you know, this kind of renovation from a landfill to a park is... I mean that's pretty cool. And then the other thing I wanted to say is, yes, for the adaptive management. In order for species protection efforts to work, you have to have adaptive management. Like Shawnee was saying, you know, 10 years ago, those skimmers weren't here. Well, now they are, and we have to, you know, we want to do things to make their life better and make it safer for them. And that's the kind of thing that adaptive management brings up. You take an annual look, or some periodic look at what's happening, and you talk about, you know, what are the interactions about that? And then you move forward accordingly. So from a scientific point of view, that's, you know, that's just good, really, really good practice. So, uh... Then the other thing, I, um... I just, yeah, let me borrow these. This is really bad today. Ah. Then the other thing I wanted to mention is, it's great for Grant. As Shawnee mentioned, most of what we're doing is writing down what is the standard practice. How are we doing these things? But when you go out for grants, and you can say to somebody, this is in a plan, that the city council has approved. You get a lot of points for that. So that's great. Well, we'll put those points to good use. So anyway, with that, I would proudly move the staff recommendation to accept the Shoreline Wildlife Plan, and thank everyone who took part in it.

[02:21:13] Mayor Alison Hicks: So, I see, we have a motion, and also a second, and council member... Oh, City Attorney Logue, do you want to make a comment?

[02:21:23] City Attorney Jennifer Logue: Just a very quick comment. It's not on the agenda, but I just wanted to state for the record that you're acting in your capacity as the board of directors for the Shoreline Regional Park community when you're taking this action. We had that clarified under the closed session item, but we forgot to put that for this item. So just for the record. Thank you.

[02:21:42] Mayor Alison Hicks: So, yes. The vice mayor have made a motion, and, uh, it was seconded by council member, Mattachek, council member. Do you want to say something in addition?

[02:21:53] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: I do, thank you. I am very thankful that we have this plan, that it was created. Really, the importance of nature and the importance of wildlife can't be underestimated. Certainly during COVID. I think people sought out nature. And, um, I know I particularly really enjoy nature. I love a hike. Love going out to shoreline. And so this one was really, really important to me. So I really appreciate the work that was done on this. I will say this was a huge education for me, reading this, and, of course, I read every single word, some of them, more than one time. Um, I even printed it on off highlighted sections. I mean, it was really good. I not only appreciated, like, the facts and figures and things in there, like, the hard data, but also, the implications and the context for why were you were saying what you were putting in the plan? That was incredibly helpful for me. Um, I do agree with the recommendations from the PRC. Um, the island um, is really important to me. I have been on those pedal boats recently. And while I'm not a 13 year old teenager. I was paying attention, too, you know, putting on your life vest and how to operate the pedal boats. But nobody mentioned to stay away from the island. But obviously, it was marked off, and so we realized we shouldn't go there, but, yeah, nobody told us why. Um, that would have been very helpful. I think, you know, I appreciated why it was there when I got closer, um, because, you know, you can see the wildlife, but if somebody isn't paying attention, it'd be helpful for them to understand. And I always think it's important to provide the rationale for why you're saying what you're saying so people can appreciate. You're not just saying, no, don't do that. Um, So, um, I am very interested in not just, um, stopping the erosion, but providing a larger island, because as we saw, it attracted a new species, that I think we want to keep. Um, it's so interesting, all the different, well, the variety we have out in shoreline. So that project is very important to me. I also am interested in the annual update. And, um, maybe it's not a separate item on the council agenda, but I would like it sent to us or have it on the consent calendar. So we also get an update on what's happening. And there are a few items that I'm particularly interested in that, um, I guess I'd like an update from time to time. It doesn't have to be anything formal, just a little email saying, hey, what is going on with the, um, CIPE for the island? You know, what are your thoughts on what we're gonna do with that? I would appreciate that. As well as, um, if we go forward with the, um, floating islands in the ponds on the golf course. I really appreciated. I guess I didn't really internalize what it meant by there are these umbrella species. But as I read it, I thought, oh, I get it now. Um, this covers so much more than just the umbrella species. So I was glad to see there were things like frogs and mice and all these other things in here. Rabbits, um, that, um, you know, I think are really important for the diversity out there. And so, um, I really appreciated that, um, the islands along the golf course, in the golf course ponds, um, can help frogs. So, I do want to know if that one happens. And I was also interested in hearing about the fencing, because, you know, as we talked about, you know, the Rangers, um, it is important to make sure we're managing access to sensitive areas, um, especially during, um, you know, nesting. Yeah, thank you. I couldn't think of that word. Yes, I appreciate the egret rookery. I take visitors there all the time. I was surprised at the retention basin. What a change has occurred there since, I think it was 2019, when half of it was dedicated. to now. It's absolutely incredible how that has changed. Love it. Um, so I would like updates on, um, like the fencing, if we're doing that, just so we kind of get a heads up on the sensitive areas. But again, this is great. I feel like once again, you know, Mountain View is taking the lead. So thank you so much. This is absolutely exactly what I feel like I was looking for. Thank you.

[02:27:01] Mayor Alison Hicks: And I assume those are not friendly amendments to the... Is there anything in specific you want?

[02:27:07] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Okay.

[02:27:07] Mayor Alison Hicks: Those are just comments. Okay. Um, and now council member Ramos.

[02:27:15] Councilmember Emily Ramos: Thank you. It was great that we, Clare, that you clarified that the PRC will be getting their annual report, that they requested. Um, I, I, I would like to look into how, um, as council member Mattachek mentioned, um, the, how we protect the, the egrets during the nesting periods. One of the emails we got was making sure that as we create those barriers, that those barriers aren't, I don't know, visibly ugly. I dont know a better word for it, but a pleasant experience for those who also enjoy the shoreline park. So that's something I want us to hopefully look into that as we make those kind of barriers that are protective, but also doesn't take away from the experience of people enjoying nature. As for the whole plan, I'm actually quite excited about this, this was a new thing for me to look into in terms of the cities, what the city does. from a landfill to, I believe there were rodeos there once. We had a long time ago, there was a historical association event about when Shoreline was Sterling. and how it changed over the years. But I think about, as we think to the future, a lot of people think to the future means something like a Disneyland Tomorrowland kind of thing, but what's kind of great about this is as we, we're thinking of a green biodiverse future. That's something just very different from the, the common thought. So I think this is actually really great. And future and forward thinking, but in a way that preserves our climate and takes care of our environment. So thank you so much, staff. Thank you so much for the community for pushing this. I particularly liked how we have our rangers that do some enforcement of protecting this land, but there was also a significant factor of community enforcement. And I think that is an important part that we need to highlight. So thank you so much.

[02:29:30] Mayor Alison Hicks: Council member Abbott Coca?

[02:29:31] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mayor. I also just want to echo the thanks and the excitement for this project and plan, listening to Shawnee reminding me of 12 years ago and the whole debate about whether to protect the brewing owls or not. And my daughters at that time were 6 and 8 and they were like, mom, you have to protect the owls. And here we are in a completely just expanding everything and becoming more inclusive. And it really is a jewel in our crown to have the Shoreline area. I go out there. And it's like a whole different world. And it's just amazing to see all the species and creatures out there. And so even though we are becoming more urbanized. Um, you know, it's good to see that we can protect our environment. And, you know, to, it reminds me that, you know, we are just, right, one part of the, the, the earth biosphere, whatever you want to call it, but, um, you know, it's important for us to, to maintain, um, the species that we have and to, to, because we do depend on each other. Sorry, I'm getting kind of philosophical, I guess, but, um, I think this is really a great example of how we can, um, you know, we can do that. We can protect the environment, even as we need to continue to grow as a city. So thank you, thank you to staff. Thank you, to the community. And I just wanted, in particular, thank Shawnee Kleinhouse for running through that door 12 years ago, thanks to your leadership. You play a big part in why we're here today. Thank you.

[02:31:23] Mayor Alison Hicks: Council member Ramirez.

[02:31:25] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, Mayor. So I echo the sentiments and things that my colleagues have shared. Um, I did want to say thank you to Vice Mayor, uh, show Walter for the history in your comments. I did appreciate them. And also council member Mattachek, who I spoke with about this item in advance of the meeting, and I think you helped educate me because I wasn't quite as thorough as you were in reviewing the plan. But you asked a lot of great questions. I think those were mostly your questions and the questions submitted in advance of the meeting, and I learned a lot. I was grateful to the staff for preparing that. I did want to ask just procedurally. The staff recommendation is different from the PRC recommendation, or is staff recommending to us, essentially, what the PRC recommended?

[02:32:17] Unknown Speaker: Thinking I was going to speak to that if you did not. So tonight, staff recommendation is to adopt the Shoreline Wildlife Management plan. The PRC did ask for consideration regarding to formalize the idea of staff coming back on an annual basis. And, as you heard tonight, staff is, uh, really taking a look at the island proactively here, uh, we have an existing CIP, we're ready to go out to bid within the next couple of days, and so, we truly are taking that to heart. And so it's just a matter of up to counsel how to formalize those additional recommendations from the PRC on top of adopting the plan. Thank you.

[02:32:56] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Okay, thank you. That's very helpful. I understood the motion on the floor to be the staff recommendation. I am comfortable with and supportive of the PRC recommendations. Um, but I appreciate, uh, John's, uh, Director Marchantza explanation. So, either way, I'm comfortable with the motion, or if you wanted to make concrete, the PRC recommendations I'm comfortable with that, as well.

[02:33:18] Vice Mayor Pat Showalter: Yeah, I would be happy to, I'm in the motion to include the PRC recommendations as well. Is that thorough enough?

[02:33:28] Unknown Speaker: So, I'm sorry, I assume it included that. When I seconded it, too. Yeah.

[02:33:33] Mayor Alison Hicks: Based on what, um, the community services doctor said, I think, maybe it didn't. So let's add that.

[02:33:38] Unknown Speaker: Absolutely.

[02:33:39] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay. This is why you have a music major in the council. So, Mr. Machan, is that sufficient?

[02:33:46] Unknown Speaker: Yes.

[02:33:46] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay. So, uh, now, council member, Kumet.

[02:33:51] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Appreciate that. I'll be supporting the revised clarified motion. I feel like as I was preparing for tonight, it was really exciting. It was like, get support affordable housing in our wildlife. This is a great meeting. Not to say, I don't always think the meeting's gonna be great. Um, but I was just really, really excited, and I think, um, just kind of shows our city's innovative spirit in terms of the project we just saw, and this one. Um, I think that, um, something we talk about often is how is, you know, Mountain View is gonna change and grow and how do we do that? And this shows that you can do both. You can have housing. You can have affordable housing, and you can protect and preserve wildlife. And as the vice mayor was saying, create adaptive plans that are kind of all inclusive, as we're changing and growing. So I just was really excited. I love how this plan will layer into our existing work, and it, to me, I've always thought how do the puzzle pieces fit, and the staff's explanation was great. We have to do it all. It's gonna take all of it. And I think the only other thing I'd like to add is a comment of making sure we communicate this widely to the region, to our residents, because I think this is a really important step. We have so many people who use shoreline in and around Mountain View that I'd love for, as Ms. Kleinhouse mentioned, take it to other communities, and I can't wait for you to go do that for us. Um, so that that's kind of what I wanted to add. And then just kind of a really fun note in terms of me feeling like our plans work. I was out with my run club, and they're like, what's this? What's this? I was like, oh, we have sea level rise, and this is what we need to prepare. And then they said, oh my God, snake. So I look down. No, it was an egret eating the snake. So I feel like that's all to say, it's working, we're seeing firsthand how it's working. Um, and I was just glad that it wasn't on the trail, and that it was the eager eating, um, instead of just me running from the snake. So just a big thank you to staff, our advocates to community for making that happen. And I don't know, I thought it'd be a fun story to end tonight with.

[02:36:13] Mayor Alison Hicks: Not quite, Anne, 'cause I have a couple comments to make, that's all right. So, so, um, you know, I'm not gonna, I agree with what other council members have said, and I'm not gonna repeat it. I just want to express why this is really important. I think often, deservedly, the climate crisis gets a lot of press, but the other environmental emergency that doesn't is species extinction and biodiversity loss. And often when I think about that whole realm of things, I think, you know, we live in a city, and somebody out there in rural areas, should be taking care of that. But on further reading, out there in rural areas. A large part of that is farmland, and a large part of it is agribusiness with heavy use of pesticides. And the purpose of pesticides is to kill small creatures. And that's what happens. So, cities and, you know, call them what they will, the parks or green belts around them, are actually really important places to enhance biodiversity. And that's why I'm so glad that we have this plan, and thank you to staff, and our consultant for working on this and the PRC. Um, because this is a, we, the city and cities in general do try to combat the climate crisis, but we should also be trying to combat species extinction as well. So with that, I think we have motion, by the vice mayor, and a second. Do you have any last comment? Okay, then we can vote.

[02:38:11] Mayor Alison Hicks: So, surprise. Passes unanimously. Yes, thank you, everyone. Now we are going to item eight, which is our council staff and committee reports. Do we have any council staff and committee reports? Council member Abbe Koga.

[02:38:42] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mayor. A few meetings to report out of with Silicon Valley Clean Energy. We recently conducted our annual audit, and we had a clean audit, so that was good news. And I think you all have received it, but there was a community impact report by city that was sent out to everyone. Hopefully, you saw it. It shows the progress that each city is making under clean energy. Just one point would be, there's been an 82% reduction in electricity related emissions of greenhouse gas emissions. And it's also, right now, energy costs are high, but overall, Mountain View customers saved almost $800,000 on their bills. And right now, 40,500 households and businesses are receiving clean electricity from carbon free sources as a result. So thank you for helping, you know, for all to our city, for the great support that we were one of the founders. I'd like to remind folks of that of SVCE. I went to the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority meeting and there was a review of this current housing element cycle. Things are moving along, but I will note that as of the end of January, there were, and there, I think there have been a few more cities that have come, but there are only 4 cities that were certified of their housing elements. Is it 8 now? Okay, great. So we're at 8 and I think there's, yeah, 101 cities. So, um, but they were comparing it to Southern California, which it's only at 45% and I think they had a 2 year 2 year start. So they thought they were trying to say it's okay, or we have, it's good news that we have 8 that are certified, but the other part of that was that, um, there are the reap funds, um, and these funds are allocated from the state to, um, an MTC A bag received about $103 million of that. And some of that goes to helping cities with technical assistance, our county received, I forget how much, but we use that for, to hire a planning collaborative staff, and they've been working on, like, a ADU program where you can, a website where you can, it can help folks who want to build ADUs. And then we just approved two new pilot programs, one $15 million for a preservation pilot program. So this would be for mostly probably nonprofits to be able to buy existing units to help with preventing displacement, and they're looking to, say, preserve at least 60 families in their homes. So that will be, the funding will be coming out, and cities are, and nonprofits are welcome to apply. And then the other one was for priority, they call them priority sites, so trying to build new developments. Um, and the funding for that, uh, would go to building at least 100 new units, and eligible um, entities are not, you'd have to have a nonprofit partner. It could be a mix of market rate and affordable. And they included in here the, we talk about the COPA topa model, and that is being included in this pot of money. So, these are will be coming online and cities will be notified of these opportunities. And then cities association. We hired a new legal council. someone familiar to us. It's the Rennie public law group. And then specifically, Jenny Quinn will be working with us. Thank you.

[02:43:01] Mayor Alison Hicks: Thank you, Vice Mayor.

[02:43:04] Vice Mayor Pat Showalter: Yes, earlier in the meeting, we talked about the alternate issue related to the performing arts committee. And so I wanted to talk about the possibility of, um, considering alternates for our, um, for our advisory committees. And for that to be a possibility. Would that be something we put to the council policy committee, or how would we go about that city attorney?

[02:43:42] City Attorney Jennifer Logue: Well, I think that I'm not sure that it needs to go to the policies and procedures committee. I think we need to look at each of the resolutions or legislation that created the respective bodies, and then just bring those for amendment. So if they were assuming they were created by resolution. We would bring a resolution amending the prior resolution to incorporate alternates in the membership of those bodies.

[02:44:11] Vice Mayor Pat Showalter: Well, I am really interested in us being able to do that, because it seems like, for some of the advisory boards, We always have just an oversupply of people who want to serve on them. But for others, we really don't. It waxes and wanes a lot. And I know performing arts is one that, from time to time, has been very hard to fill and keep filled. So I would like just to give council members the opportunity to appoint alternates when it seems appropriate for all of our advisory committees. Do other people feel that that's reasonable?

[02:44:52] Unknown Speaker: Yeah, I do. I also think that my short period of time on the council policies and procedures committee, that we have seen talked over amendments. So I thought that would be the place that would house that conversation.

[02:45:09] Mayor Alison Hicks: You can definitely go to the policies and procedures committee. So just for clarification, you're looking at all bodies, so we would, you want to consider all bodies, and we would pull the legislation for each one, or are there particular ones that you want us to start with, or, and then we can go to the policies and procedures committee first. I think council member Ramirez has a comment on this.

[02:45:35] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you very much. I support the recommendation. It would be a very valuable tool, and in fact, we've used this tool even when we didn't realize it was illegal for us to do so. Um, so I, I think it is, uh, it's a prudent, um, modification. Different bodies were established in different ways. We wouldn't be able to do this with a charter established bodies. Maybe it's something we can consider with the if the council approves the charter modernization, maybe that can come back to us, but for the bodies where we have a legislative authority to modify, I would support reviewing them. I also think it might be a good opportunity for the staff to review, you know, if there are bylaws or whatever the legislation may be, just to make sure there aren't other things that might be worth fixing. Um, you know, so, for instance, uh, we've also had a challenge with, um, the performing arts committee. We actually appointed a couple of folks who ended up not being eligible because they had the conflict of, I think, having some relationship with one of the, what are they called the, you know, the companies that work with the Center for Performing Arts. So I think it's a good idea. I also want to give staff broader flexibility to recommend additional modifications as they see fit. I don't necessarily see a need for it to come to any particular subcommittee. It feels trivial enough to come back as a consent item, but I just wanted to say, I support the idea. I just wanted to say with regard to bylaws, a lot of those are actually adopted by the bodies themselves. So I, like, I just reviewed some that are going to the body themselves. So I'm not sure. I mean, that would be, that's a bigger project. Maybe Heather could...

[02:47:28] Heather: Yeah, yeah, I was just gonna, um, say for the CPBC question, since this isn't a policy of the council. I don't know that it would be, um, best addressed at one of those meetings, but we could definitely, if we if we got direction that was broad enough, um, as Council member Ramirez said for us to look holistically at the resolutions that created some of your bodies. I know that you have some bodies that were created on minute order, um, that would be great to put in as resolutions, um, that we could bring an item back that kind of, you know, added some alternate abilities, um, maybe made some suggestions for membership that would be helpful. So, um, if we had broad direction, we could we could bring something back.

[02:48:18] Mayor Alison Hicks: So you're saying you could bring it back on the consent calendar?

[02:48:21] City Clerk Heather: Yeah, we could.

[02:48:23] Mayor Alison Hicks: And you would like more direction from us?

[02:48:25] City Clerk Heather: As long as you're comfortable with what we've talked about, then I can take that.

[02:48:29] Mayor Alison Hicks: Yeah, I mean, I support, I fully support this. I've seen, over and over again, that we sometimes have, you know, a lot of really strong applicants, and sometimes not so much, and it would be great to have, it would be great to be able to put the strong applicants on as alternates and let them participate and not constantly be seeking new people. So I strongly support this. Um, Council member Matic.

[02:48:57] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Thanks. I do have a couple questions, and I'm not sure if we can go into this level of detail under item eight, but, um, so let me know if we can't. Um, I feel like we sort of changed, um, based upon the conversation here, how we handle alternates. So when we've appointed alternates in the past with the exclusion of the RHC, they have not participated. They only participate once there is an opening. And then I actually think the council, even though they might have been an alternate, the council took action to appoint them. Isn't that true? It didn't just automatically happen. Because I remember, um, on the EPC, there was an alternate, and then there was, um, an opening, and the council, this was not when I was on council. Um, took action to appoint that person. So I guess I need to understand what we're thinking, um, how that would work. And then, are we saying, you know, that we've never had, with the exception of the RHC, the alternate participate, but not vote.

[02:50:06] City Clerk Heather: Well, the EPC, the library board, and the Parks and Rec, and the Charter. So they're not covered by this. Um, but, uh, I personally think that for most of our advisory boards, having the alternates be able to be participants, but not vote is just fine, because, I mean, for instance, you go to the library board meeting, they sit around a small conference table in, you know, a conference room, and they usually don't have any public at all. So that's sufficiently informal that, you know, I think, having an alternate, whereas EPC, they're sitting here, it's very different. So I would kind of think that staff could really give us advice on that, that would just be appropriate to the boards that we currently have.

[02:51:04] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: So would it be one alternate per body?

[02:51:09] Unknown Speaker: I'd say let's look at two based on the best situation we just had.

[02:51:13] Mayor Alison Hicks: Yeah, I would agree. And I think that it's, we get so many people who, I think, don't know what they're getting into, and then they quit, if you, you know, with some sort of excuse of family matters, or whatever. So it would be also a way of onboarding people. Um, so I would support two who could participate, but not vote, uh, city manager McCarthy?

[02:51:41] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Thank you, mayor and council member Matachek. So, I think what we can do is, we can bring it back to you. Take a look at it. As to the questions about alternates. They would not vote, because otherwise they would be full members. So, but certainly, if you all wanted, they could participate, if you want to have one or 2 alternates, we can bring that back to you. I will note, though, that we have had some challenges recruiting for some of the advisory bodies. So it may not be possible to have 2 alternates because there's just a lot of turnover, like with what we're seeing with everything. But if that is counsel's interest, I would just ask you to take a straw poll. And then as our city clerk said, we can look at all of them and bring something back on consent.

[02:52:27] Unknown Speaker: Yeah, I would like the option to put up to 2 at the committee's discretion.

[02:52:33] Unknown Speaker: But the car's discretion, yes.

[02:52:36] Mayor Alison Hicks: Council member Ramos?

[02:52:38] Councilmember Emily Ramos: If you have two alternates, or we're gonna have some process. If there's one opening, like, alternate, one is the first choice, an alternate two is the second choice. Is that how we're going to do it, or is that going to be another discussion?

[02:52:54] Unknown Speaker: Thank you, Mayor.

[02:52:55] Mayor Alison Hicks: Oh, go ahead.

[02:52:56] City Attorney Jennifer Logue: I was just going to say, thank you, mayor council member, MO. So, yes, let's say you have one person gone, and both of your alternates are there. I think you would have to designate who the voting alternate would be. So alternate one and alternate two. We can build that in to the recommendations as well.

[02:53:12] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay, are there more comments on this before I take a straw poll? Conselement Baramos?

[02:53:18] Councilmember Emily Ramos: So this is going to be different from the format that the RHC has, where if someone's absent, then the alternate can come in and vote. But this is just only if the actual person resigns.

[02:53:35] City Attorney Jennifer Logue: It's whatever you need to direct, but they're, that is, um, I mean, that she's, she's pointing out a scenario that I'm familiar with where I've seen that you point to alternates on a body and that that person can step in if there's an absence, right, to participate. Yeah, I think that we might need to take this back and have a little bit of conversation about the legality of some of the things that have come up and make it really clear when we bring it back what the alternate would do and how that would work if they would just be voting in the absence or recusal of a member rather than slotting into an empty position because I don't know that we would want to have that. But yeah, we can definitely, you know, cover all of that in the item that comes back to you.

[02:54:23] Mayor Alison Hicks: Okay. So we've, I think we've covered most of the, Oh, you have a comet?

[02:54:29] Unknown Speaker: I just had one more question, and that is, does the alternate become a full member automatically when there's a vacancy, or does the council have to act on that?

[02:54:41] City Attorney Jennifer Logue: I don't know what the common practice is. I don't even know what it is on the RHC. I think that we would need to look into that, but I don't think that we can circumvent the Matty act when you have a vacancy. So, even though you appoint alternates, um, I'm not sure if you can do it. I don't know if a noticing for the positions would be sufficient to cover for the Matty Act, if there was a vacancy, and then that alternate swoops into that spot, or whether or not the Matty Act still would require you to post notice of the vacancy, so that's some legal research that I need to do, to determine whether or not they can automatically become a member, um, if a vacancy is created, or if the Matty Act still requires notice of the vacancy.

[02:55:27] Unknown Speaker: Yeah, I think I would prefer that they are able to slide into it, and we don't reopen the process, but, of course, if that's legally not possible, then I prefer that we not do that.

[02:55:37] Mayor Alison Hicks: So I think we fleshed out most... What's that? Oh, that one is in the queue. Thanks. Uncle member Kmei.

[02:55:47] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: I don't know what happened to my fuzzy thing. Yeah, sorry. So, you know, I think, Um, I'd be comfortable voting for this. I also appreciate tonight, we voted on consent. I was trying to find it You know, some revisions, some revisions and amendments to the process. And so, you know, one of them is the Brown Act training, which I know many of us attended earlier this year, and I feel like I wonder if there can be, you know, and I hate to bring this up because it will involve staff, but, you know, there's like a board or a Commission 101 or something because I feel like there isn't a full understand, kind of like we're talking about, there isn't necessarily a full understanding of the applicants, perhaps the time commitment, or the requirements. You know, we just had an email today, right, of someone resigning, who I feel like recently got appointed. And so my concern is that maybe we need to troubleshoot it also from the other end, not just on the vacancy side, which I do hear, and I understand, but I think it's also about, you know, I've seen, it's just the list, and people may say, like, this commission sounds awesome, right? And it's more, and they're not necessarily, maybe, understanding the full concept, and then we interview them in that kind of round Robin, right? CPPC gets 5 minutes with them. I think it becomes very difficult. Um, so I just wanted to throw that out there so perhaps staff can look into that as well. Um, because that might ameliorate some of the problems that we're discussing in terms of the vacancy issue.

[02:57:34] Mayor Alison Hicks: Yes, I would agree with that. Even maybe a little more upfront information about what educational information on the website, about what you're getting into might be helpful. and save, save time for everyone. Um, So, council member, Abbe Koker, were you gonna make... Okay.

[02:57:54] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Oh, sorry.

[02:57:55] Mayor Alison Hicks: So, I think now we've fleshed out most of the issues, and we're gonna take a straw poll on who on agreeing that staff should go forward in exploring this. All those in favor? Okay, passes unanimously. I have something, a couple things to bring to item eight. I don't see anyone else. So, um, I uh, went to a meeting of all mayors in Santa Clara County that was uh, called by San Jose Mayor. I always mispronounced his last name. Mayhem. And we each talked about something important to us, and I talked a little bit about safe parking, and how I hoped that other cities would adopt the program, and there were quite, it was maybe the most interesting discussion we had. There was a lot of interest. We all, so we are going to meet maybe quarterly, and I intend to bring more information on our safe parking program, and how other cities could adopt it. We also talked about slow and closed streets, like Castro Street, we talked about economic vitality, and vacancies, and how the pandemic had affected those. And then, of course, we talked a lot about the housing element. I also went to a lunch with the city manager that, um, the president of Stanford, Mark Tessier Levine, called, um, and they were talking also about, uh, partnering more with, with cities. And so you all can think about how you would like to partner with Stanford. Are there any other items that council members want to bring up?

[02:59:51] Mayor Alison Hicks: Seeing none. We will adjourn. The next city council meeting will be held on March 28, 2023.

[03:00:01] Unknown Speaker: In this meeting, Mayor. Oh, do you have a closed session report?

[03:00:06] Mayor Alison Hicks: There is no report this evening.

[03:00:08] Unknown Speaker: Thank you.

[03:00:09] Mayor Alison Hicks: So now, this meeting is adjourned at 942.

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