August 18, 2022 Council NOFA Review Committee

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[00:00:05] Member Pat Showalter: Okay,

[00:00:06] Member Pat Showalter: welcome, everyone. Um, this is the August 18th, meeting of the Council NoFa Review Committee, and um, there's a little blurb about how we're going to conduct a meeting that I need to read. During this declared state of emergency, the meeting will be conducting in accordance with California government code 5490 53 as authorized by resolution. Please contact the city clerk to obtain a copy of the applicable resolution. All members will participate by the meeting by video conference with no physical meeting location. Members of the public who wish to comment on any item, may do so, either of the following ways. One, email your comments to Deanna, dot, terra vera, at mountain view.gov, by one p.m. on the meeting day, and emails will be forwarded to us, um, and entered into the record for, for the meeting. Please identify the agenda item number and the subject line, or you can provide oral communication comments during the meeting online. You may join the Zoom webinar using the link. And um, entering the web webinar ID. You will be asked to enter an email address and a name. Your email address will not be disclosed to the public, however, when the chair announces the item you wish to speak, click the raised hand feature in Zoom. Speakers will be notified of their turn shortly before they are called on to speak. For instructions on using the raised hand feature in Zoom. Um, Please, uh, visit the link that's in the agenda. Then by phone, if you're not on Zoom. Uh, you can dial uh, 669-900-9128 and enter um, the webinar ID. Um, and when the chair, when I announce the item, that you wish to speak on, you dial 9. Phone participants will be called on by the last 2 digits of their telephone number. When called on to speak, please limit your comments to the time allotted, which is going to be 3 minutes. And, um, I think that's all anybody needs to, we need to know. Hopefully, we have some members of the public joining us. Anyway, so I'd like to call this meeting to order. And the 1st item of business is a wrong call. Lisa,

[00:02:32] Member Pat Showalter: can you kick us off with the roll call?

[00:02:38] Unknown Speaker: Yes. Committee man for Abbe Kogan?

[00:02:43] Member Margaret Abe-Koga: Here.

[00:02:45] Unknown Speaker: Vice Mayor Hicks?

[00:02:46] Member Alison Hicks: Here.

[00:02:47] Unknown Speaker: Chair show, Walter.

[00:02:48] Member Pat Showalter: Here.

[00:02:49] Member Pat Showalter: Thank you. Okay.

[00:02:52] Member Pat Showalter: And then, um, the next item on the agenda is, um, Approve the minutes. We have, uh, we had minutes from the July 25th, um, meeting. Do I have a motion to approve?

[00:03:09] Member Alison Hicks: I make a motion to approve.

[00:03:11] Member Pat Showalter: Thank you, vice mayor. Um, a second.

[00:03:18] Member Margaret Abe-Koga: I will 2nd the motion.

[00:03:20] Member Pat Showalter: Okay? So, um, uh, all in favor, signify by saying I. I Don't

[00:03:29] Member Margaret Abe-Koga: we have to, uh, roll call vote? Do

[00:03:32] Member Pat Showalter: we want to do roll call? Okay, we can I think we have to. Oh, all right. Let's do a roll call. Uh,

[00:03:43] Unknown Speaker: committee member, Abbe Koga?

[00:03:45] Member Margaret Abe-Koga: I.

[00:03:46] Unknown Speaker: Vice Mayor Hicks?

[00:03:49] Member Alison Hicks: Yes.

[00:03:51] Unknown Speaker: And Cher Shell, Walter.

[00:03:53] Member Pat Showalter: Yes.

[00:03:54] Member Pat Showalter: Okay,

[00:03:55] Member Pat Showalter: then we'll move on to oral communications from the public. And um, this portion of the meeting is reserved for persons who wish to address the committee on a matter that isn't on today's agenda. So speakers will be limited to 3 minutes. And state law prohibits the committee from acting on non-agendized items. Do you see anyone calling in for the um, oral communication part of a meeting? I

[00:04:26] Deanna Talavera: don't see any raised hands and we did not receive any emails for public comment. Thank you. Okay,

[00:04:33] Member Pat Showalter: well then we can move right along to item 5, which is new business.

[00:04:37] Deanna Talavera: Someone just raise their hand. Did

[00:04:40] Member Pat Showalter: they? Okay. All right, well. Okay,

[00:04:44] Deanna Talavera: I'll go ahead and allow the 1st individual to talk, Andre Casanova. Welcome, Andre. Are you able to unmute, Andre?

[00:05:03] Andre Casanova: I'm sorry, could I get the number? I'm sorry, I hit it my hand too early. I'm ready for the next item. I'm sorry. Okay,

[00:05:09] Member Pat Showalter: no worries. Right. Okay, so then we're at um, item 5. consideration of the Alta housing notice, a funding availability proposal for 1020 Tarabella Avenue. And, um, uh, I'm sure staff has a, um, uh, a report and, um, I presume that the applicants also would like to speak. Hello

[00:05:39] Deanna Talavera: everyone, Deanna Talavera with the housing division. Um, I will go ahead and Share my screen, um, then the applicant will present and following that will go ahead and uh, take public comment related to this item. Okay. Everybody can see. Nice screen. Right? Well, welcome everyone. My name is Deanna Talavera, and I'm the senior housing officer with the city of Mountain View. I'm joined in this presentation by my colleague, Edgar Matavia, senior planner on the project. Um, this evening, we're asking the NoFA committee. To review the NoFA application for the proposed affordable housing project at 1020 Tarabella Avenue. Um, the committee will determine if the proposal should be forwarded to the full city council for um, a funding reservation. I'll begin with providing the committee a brief summary of the city's NoFa product process and status and also provide an overview of Alta Housings proposal at 1020 Terabella. Following that, we'll discuss, um, And provide feedback from all of the public meetings that have happened to date. And, um, then we'll discuss the results of staff's review of the project funding sources and whether or not it meets the NoFO objective. Um, and finally, we'll ask that the committee make a reservation. I'm sorry, a recommendation to the full city council. So in February of 2014, um, the city released a notice of funding availability or what we call a NoFA. Um, and that made $12500000 of local housing funds available for the acquisition, rehabilitation, or construction of affordable housing. Um, developers were encouraged to apply on a 1st come 1st serve basis. And submit proposals to the city. Since 2014, the city council has appropriated approximately $105000000 to facilitate the development of 577 affordable housing units. However, there still continues to be a need for affordable housing and the funding necessary to construct it. As such, we still continue to receive applications, and we currently have 5 applications in the pipeline. Totaling an additional 448 housing units. We also expect to begin development of affordable housing on city-owned sites, including the VTA Evelyn site and, um, future land dedication sites in the North Bay Shore and East Weismann precise plan areas. The applications that we receive are vetted by the city's housing and planning staff, and um, we ensure that they meet the city's threshold requirements, which I'll touch on later in this presentation. Um, I have recently received an update from our finance team that very slightly from the report you received, um, that the city has over $50000000 in housing funds currently available. We estimate that that's sufficient funding, um, for the current pipeline applications, but additional funds will be needed for development on our land dedication sites. And, um, details of that funding strategy will be discussed um, further in the affordable housing study session that's being held later this month. As mentioned prior, staff reviews the NoFA applications on a 1st come 1st serve basis, and these applications are reviewed by city housing and planning staff to confirm that the projects meet, um, A checklist of items. This includes that the developer can achieve the city housing goals and objectives. That the developer will be able to compete and complete applications for state funding. Um, that they have the ability to construct the project on time, and that we ensure that, um, the project is feasible and economically sustainable by reviewing items like their proof forma and development budgets. Staff also reviews the rents, um, income limits that will be served in this project and the various funding sources, um, for the UNIX. We also confirm that the developer has site control or will be able to obtain it, and that they're able to obtain zoning approvals, um, and meet the city's design goals. Finally, um, we want to make sure that the developer has the experience and the financial capacity to construct and maintain the development in the long term. So also housings proposal at 1020 Terabella is 6 stories with a total of 108 units. It'll serve extremely low and low income households earning between 30 to 60% of the area median income. Currently, the development will have 2 studio units. 491 bedroom units, 282 bedroom units, 273 bedroom units, and 2 manager units. Um, the members of this committee may already be familiar with this project is it's had several public meetings. My colleague, Edgar, the project planner, will walk us through some of those public meetings that have been held to date. The feedback that was received at each of these meetings, including the gatekeeper authorization, the environmental planning commission study session, the city council study session, um, a neighborhood meeting that was held. And most recently, the design, I'm sorry, the development review committee. Um, which take a takes us to this evening's NoFA review committee. So I'm going to hand it off to Edgar to present now. Okay,

[00:11:28] Edgar Matavia: uh, well, thank you, Diana. Uh, good evening, council members, as mentioned by Senior Housing Oster, Alberta. My name is Edgar. Yeah, project planner for this project and I will present the following 2 slides. You can go to the next slide please. Location. This project is located at 1020 Tarabella at the intersection of Tarabella Avenue in San Rafael Avenue. The parcel has a general plan zoning designation of General Industrial in order to allow for housing on the site. The project is requesting a general plan amendment to be designated high identity residential. His only map amendment to be designated P Planned community district in a 29% state dentity bonus, allowing 24 more units above the allowed base dentity. You will know 2 sites are shown on the images to the right hand side, 1020 and 1040 Terabella. This project came in as a gatekeeper application in 2020 or 1040 Terrabella, a public storage facility will donate over half an acre to alta housing and return for an increase to be allowed floor to area racial. The top image shows the existing boundary lines, orange for personal storage, blue for out housing. Bottom image shows the proposed property lines, including the half acre donation to be given to Alta housing. Next slide. Next slide, then. Thank you. Here you see the meetings that have been taking place to date. Detailed information on the meetings themselves was highlighted in the report. That's highlighted by Miss Albera, gatekeeper, a gatekeeper was submitted, or was heard on August 25, 2020. This was the formal introduction of the project. Environmental planning commission study session. What's held on March 23rd, 2022. And city council study session was held on April 12, 2022. Both study sessions were mainly discussing the public storage project, but input and direction was received on 1020 Terabella. A project community meeting was held on May 19, 2022, and the development review committee was held on June 15, 2022. Moving forward, this project will address the comments received from the meetings to date before the next development review committee meeting, tentatively scheduled for November 2022. It is anticipated this project will be presented. To the environmental planning commission in January 2023 and subsequently a meeting with city council is tentatively scheduled for February 2023. The sequel environmental analysis is currently ongoing, and it is anticipated to conclude in December of this year. And that concludes my portion of the presentation. So I'll hand it back to, um, housing officer, Delta. Thanks, Edgar. So

[00:14:14] Deanna Talavera: as we mentioned, staff has evaluated um, all aspects of the proposal, including its sources of funding. Um, while the developer is still in the process of securing the full funding necessary to build the project, it will, um, or there are 6 anticipated sources of financing that they plan to pursue that are outlined here on the slide. Um, the 1st is tax credit equity, um, also housing plans on applying for the low income, housing tax credit program, which is a 4% tax credit. And that should add approximately 49000000 in capital to the project. Um, the 4% tax credit program is non-competitive, um, and there's several application cycles per year. The developer also has the option to apply for state as well as federal tax credits. Second, the developer intends to source $22000000 through either the state and multifamily housing program, also known as MHP, or the Affordable Housing Sustainable Communities Grant. Um, the project will need entitlements to be competitive for the MHP funding, so that'll happen down the road. Um, 3rd is the city's loan, the city of Mountain View loan. The developer is requesting $13.50000000 from the city, and the city will seek to obtain ownership of the land as part of our loan agreement. Fourth is the request of um, for funding from the county of Santa Clara. Um, The developer intends to request $13000000 from the county. And they're working with the county office of supporting supportive housing to apply for funding. This project would probably fall under the city's MOU at the county to provide 200 supportive housing units with $80000000 in county funding support. Per the city's MOU with the county. Um, if the city contributes more funds than the county, which is the case here, the city will have the option to own the site. Finally, the developer will secure a conventional bank loan um, from a to be determined lender in the approximate amount of $11.80000 to finance the construction of the project. Um, This slide shows. Um, the. And it was received as attachment to in the staff report, the per unit development costs for the city's last 8 affordable projects. Um, the most recently approved NoFa project was at 1256 Montecito, or I'm sorry, 1265 Montecito Avenue. Um, you'll notice that the, um, The per unit cost was slightly more than the per unit cost here at Terabella. Um, the noticeable increases in total cost per units over the past 3 years are attributed to a few things like high inflation, um, the rise in interest rates, and just generally the high cost of materials, labor and land, which is impacting projects not only here in mountain view, but um, in the region and the state. Um, so staff's review of the costs show that the project is actually um, pretty cost efficient and uh, reasonable, um, in our opinion. Our review and evaluation of the project determined that it meets the city's um, goals and objectives, um, to expand affordable housing opportunities. Um, to households that would otherwise be left out of the mountain view housing market. Um, it meets the city of Mountain View strategic roadmap goal of increasing the quantity and diversity of housing options, um, including assistance for those who are unhoused. The project also meets the housing element goal of providing assistance to households at different income levels that will address their housing needs. And finally, the development is financially feasible. Um, Alta housing has demonstrated success in developing, um, pretty high quality developments in Mountain View and elsewhere, um, that are safe and well designed. If the committee recommends funding for this project, the next steps would be for staff to take the proposal and committee recommendation to the city council in September. And the city council would appropriate funding. From there, all to housing and public storage will each continue to refine their design. Um, and funding proposals and pursue individual entitlements. But they'll go through the sequel process together. Also plans to complete the entitlement and approval process, um, an early 2023 and it's anticipated that construction will begin in late 2024. So in conclusion, staff is recommending that the no for review committee um forward this funding proposal to the city council for review so that they may reserve a loan amount of $13.500000 And appropriate one. 3 of the $13.500000 reservation for approved pre-development activities. At this time, I'm going to hand it over to the Alta housing team to present briefly on their project and introduce their team. And when they're when they're done, we'll both be available to answer questions that the committee may have, um, and also take public comment. So I'm going to go ahead and stop sharing and hand it off to the Alta team. Thank you.

[00:19:42] Carlos Castellanos: Thank you. Deanna. I'm gonna start sharing my screen here. Hopefully I pick the right one. Okay. The um, so, um, I am Carlos Castellanos. Vice president, real estate development at Alta Housing. Today, I'm joined here by Thea Sauka, who's our project manager on 1020 Tarabella. And we also have members of our design team. Van Meter Williams and Pollock. We have Fred Pollock, Laura Schagolov. And um, we have Lily Wellington as well. Move to the next slide here.

[00:20:33] Carlos Castellanos: Alta housing, um, We have been around for over 52 years now. And uh, we have a mission to create stronger, more diverse communities by providing maintaining quality and affordable housing. Where individuals and families can thrive. And to mention here, uh, we have a pipeline and and, um, we've been very, uh, fortunate and very excited to work in the city of Mountain View, um, In fact, now we have, uh, an additional, uh, for affordable housing development in the pipeline, in mountain view that would bring an additional 300 units, affordable units into mountain view. Our um, Altar housing is a full service, affordable housing developer. We do real estate development. Uh, we also do, um, uh, property management, our own property management, and provide resident services for the residents in our buildings. And, um, we also, for some cities, also provide administration of their BMR, their below market rate, uh, programs, um, and so all of that to try and create a, uh, very, um, total and very, um, comprehensive approach to trying to, um, provide quality housing for our residents. Um, the next slide I'm going to, uh, uh, share with you is some of the properties that are currently in our portfolio that, um, are in the city of Mountain View and how they're very well designed, very well managed and integrate well with the surrounding community. The 1st development, uh, that we uh, done it at Eagle, was Eagle Park Apartments, uh, completed in 2019. It's 64 affordable apartments, uh, and is targeted as permanent housing for uh, veterans, and formally homeless households. The, um, More recently, we completed um, Luna Vista. And uh, that one is was completed at the end of 2021. It's uh 71 affordable apartments. And there we're serving low income residents, including uh, uh, having some uh, set aside of residents who have intellectual and developmental disabilities. And today, uh, we're here to talk about uh, 1020 Terabella. Uh, this is a 108 unit family residential development, that, um, we are proposing, and over half of the units will be 2 and 3 bedroom units, apartments, and serving households from 30% up to 60% of the area's median income. We uh, propose to have uh, 2 stories of parking that are wrapped, that are is wrapped by housing, uh, and those uh, levels of parking will, um, provide 95 spaces. Uh, again, in the population that we're gonna have here, are gonna be, um, in addition to, uh, affordable units, uh, for lower income, uh, families. We're also setting aside, 10% of the units for residents who have intellectual and developmental disabilities, and um, setting aside 25% of the units, for, um, for providing permanent, uh, uh, housing for families who are coming through the county's rapid rehousing of homeless, uh, program. Also wanted to mention how this particular development, as Edgar mentioned earlier, is a unique joint venture with our neighbor at public storage and our transfer of land will provide us this opportunity to really intensify the amount of units that we can provide affordable units for the community. And um, just go over again, you've already heard about the schedule where we're at. We've made some great progress over the last couple years, uh, from the original gatekeeper, uh, approval to now where we're at, uh, the Nova hearing, and we, we were hoping that, um, the end of the year, early 2023, uh, will, will have our entitlements approval in time to apply for the, um, the Supernova's state, uh, funding source, that's now only offered once a year. And I think we have a great, um, relationship with the city and trying to target that as our goal, uh, so that we can secure, um, the the sources that are in that, uh, uh, no around for the state. And, um, and then continue there from there on and try and and get the other low income housing and uh, 4% low income housing tax credits and bond. Uh, so that we can start construction, uh, in 2024. Um, and then have residents move in, hopefully by the end of 2025. And I'm going to turn this over now to Laura, uh, who's going to talk a little bit about the what has uh, transpired since our last time in front of city council and our design review committee uh, and what we're doing to address our design.

[00:26:36] Laura Schagolov: Thank you, Carlos. Hi everybody. Um, I'm just gonna say a few words here about our design process. Um, we've been working really closely with staff to address comments that have come up from the city council study session as well as the development and review committee. Um, and so, um, many of the refinements that we've been working on, um, are present here in this, uh, presentation and also in the staff report images. And just to highlight a few of the design refinements that we've been working on. It, um, we've been working on improving the Terabella frontage and really trying to create an amenity space for the community through the landscape, through the programming and through the architecture of that space. We've also been um, oh, you can go back, Carlos. Thank you. Um, yes, there's more on that in the next slide that we can go over together. And then the additional window area and patterning specifically on the bookends on the west and east part of the project. We've been sort of addressing that widening windows, you know, creating a little bit more transparency in those spaces. Color and material changes predominantly on the 2 story frontage of the building. So again, kind of how the pedestrian interacts with the building from the Terabella frontage, working on the material palette, the interplay of the sort of street facing planes and how they relate to each other. And also the residential stoops and canopy forms that you see there along the frontage as well. Another item that's not listed here that we've been working on and is addressed here is also recessing the driveways on both Terabella and the San Rafael frontages, so they have less visual prominence in the pedestrian experience. Carlos, you can go to the next slide. Thank you. So here is sort of the updated landscape plan, and this is really meant to be an amenity space, um, along Terabella. We have an 18 foot 6 setback along the entire frontage. Uh, there's mostly a 2 story building along that frontage, except at the very ends, um, at the bookend areas. And there are residential stoops that are landscape to still provide a lot of privacy. Along the walkway, the right of way, there are parklet type seating areas. There are going to be some engaging activities along the route here. There are educational gardens with signage and a plaza at the corner that is located at the lobby entry at Terabella and San Rafael. Go ahead to the next one. And here are some renderings that really kind of provide the look and feel of that Terabella frontage area. So there's a corner plaza on the upper right that interacts with the front lobby entrance, canopy, signage, um, on the bottom left, we have a a bike room space that is adjacent to that plaza. There's seating and bike racks that kind of bleed over. And on the bottom right, some of that, um, native planting that has the signage and is somewhat educational plays off of some of the seating areas and also provides a buffer to the residential stoop, um, that is set back and has a little bit more privacy. So we, that's a very quick overview of the changes that we've been working on. We do have some additional images that we can refer back to if there are specific questions as well.

[00:30:54] Carlos Castellanos: Thank you, Laura. And uh, we will leave this now uh, to questions and if uh, anyone has questions for us. Do

[00:31:08] Member Pat Showalter: any, oh, ah. Council member Avocoga.

[00:31:13] Member Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, chair, and thank you for the presentation. Um, I'm actually just gonna ask the question that I saw in the Q and A box, um, I, regarding, um, prevailing wage. I believe that prevailing wage applies to this project because it has city funds involved. So could staff just confirm that? That's correct. Great. Thank you. Oh, that's all I have right now. I know we're just talking about the no fa. Um, allotment today, so, um, I won't get too much into design and whatnot, but appreciate the the overview. Thanks. Great. Um,

[00:31:54] Member Pat Showalter: Vice Mayor Hicks. So

[00:31:57] Member Alison Hicks: I noticed him, I think in one of our attachments, I think it was the plan set, that it said bike shop, but I thought that bike shops were not allowed, uh, in tax credit, affordable housing projects. So could you clarify, is there a, um, is there a bike shop or, what is the bike facility exactly and who can use it? Yeah,

[00:32:23] Carlos Castellanos: um, I'll try and clarify that right now, uh, we're designing it as a bicycle storage facility for the residents and having additional space, that can be possibly programmed to, to have a, uh, a program introduce, uh, a, uh, service partner or something that could help with maintaining the bikes of the residents. In fact, we're looking at that through our transportation demand management plan. Uh, we will, in addition to that space, we're going to be hiring, um, a, uh, transportation demand, uh, service coordinator, who is going to kind of work with that and try and help residents with upkeep of their bikes. So it's really like a, an area where they can fix their bikes. And there may be a 3rd party, but it wouldn't be like a, like a bicycle retail or anything like that. Okay,

[00:33:19] Member Alison Hicks: thank you for that. I, I have also talked to some affordable housing developers that, that, had thought they could act, they might be able, I'm adding a lot of caveats here to, um, to help people generally in the neighborhood on some days if they did it out of doors, uh, rather than in indoors is what I think I remember. But I don't know if that's something that you were considering. I know that our public library does that, you know, members of the general public can have their learn how to fix their bike a little bit. So I don't know if that's an element of what you're doing or if it's for residents only. And I know that's not totally up to you. It's partly the funding sources that uh, that oversee what you do.

[00:34:04] Carlos Castellanos: Exactly. And and also we, we, we would look into, uh, again, if there, if there were a chance to introduce a 3rd party provider, we would want to be sure to be clear whether that could even be done or not by the funding sources. And also, you know, we're checking in. Uh, we, we do have, uh, without committing to it, we have space in front of the, the, the bike room there, um, that could possibly be a gathering to play for bicyclists and things, but we can't right now program it in that sense. Okay,

[00:34:38] Member Alison Hicks: so it sounds like you'll do as much as you can and you're checking into what you can do for, for people beyond the residence. Okay, thank you.

[00:34:54] Member Pat Showalter: It's time to have public comment. Do

[00:34:56] Member Pat Showalter: we have any members of the public with questions? So

[00:35:00] Deanna Talavera: we have 2 hands raised. I'll go ahead and start with the 1st um, Individual wishing to make public comment, Andre Casanova. Great,

[00:35:13] Member Pat Showalter: Andre, you have 3 minutes. Hi, my name is, I

[00:35:18] Andre Casanova: mean, good evening, my council members and vice mayor. My name is Andre Casanova. I'm a union carpenter at a local 405. I drive past many jobs just like this one just to drive over an hour to make it to a job that has a union job where they have prevailing wage. Apprenticeships and health benefits. A lot of contractors that we go past like this one. That's not do that for their citizens. It would be nice if this job was a union job where it could help its members, its local communities. Thank you. Thank you, Andre.

[00:36:01] Member Pat Showalter: Um, the next individual is Giovanni. Good

[00:36:10] Giovanni Adolini: evening, council members. My name's Giovanni Adolini, and I've been an area carpenter since 1997. I'm currently a field rep for Carpenter's local 4 or 5 representing 7000 skilled carpenters in Santa Clara County. I'm encouraged by the idea of adding more units of housing to Santa Clara County and Mountain View, such as the 1020 Terabella project at a time when there are more homeless than ever in our community. However, like Brother Casanova said, our members have been driving farther and farther to find work that pays a livable wage and health benefits for them and their families. I find it absolutely unacceptable that these developers are continually allowed to come into our community and exploit our workers by paying them substandard wages with no healthcare. I would kindly ask that the council please consider adopting a requirement that this and any future proposed developments, pay area standard carpenter wages, healthcare coverage, and a commitment to hire local carpenters and tradesmen, including apprentices. Myself and 10,000s of other members have benefited from a state approved apprenticeship program, and our quality of life is better because of it. Apprenticeship programs give those without the opportunity to attend college. The ability to acquire skills that lead to good paying jobs and a shot at the American dream. Unfortunately, developers will never do the right thing and pay area standard wages on their own. With your leadership and direction, we can send a message to all developers that Mountain View and Santa Clara County will not stand for the exploitation of carpenters, skilled tradesmen, apprentices so they can increase their profits. Uh, I couldn't help but, uh, here during the presentation, uh, words, you know, thrive, where individuals and families thrive, The way individuals and families thrive is by paying area standard wages, uh, commitment to retirement, healthcare, and apprenticeships. That what's sustainable. That's community. Um, There's always in these projects, there's no mention of the skilled labor of building these projects and how they're treated and discarded when the project's done. It's a beautiful looking project. Everything looks good on the outside, but at the core of it, we have to ask ourselves who built that project and however they treated and how were they sustained? Um, I would be grateful for an opportunity to speak further about these issues in person or virtually at a time that's convenient for you. Thank you for your time and the opportunity to speak. Okay. Thank you, Giovanni. Right. Thank you. Um,

[00:38:32] Deanna Talavera: we also have 2 questions that I will read into the record. Um, Any thoughts on undergrounding of power lines. This was from Mark. Um, Mark again, said it looks like the current power lines. Um, oh, sorry, it looks like the current power poles are located uh, in the sidewalk area. I'm sorry, the, The comment disappeared. 12nd. It looks like the current power poles will be in the middle of relocated sidewalks. Um. Carlos, I don't know if you answer those questions or if you want to address those now or at a later time. Or members of your design team want to address that. I wouldn't, um, just answer

[00:39:19] Carlos Castellanos: this. We, we're definitely looking at, at, uh, what we can do about undergrounding and, you know, we're also, um, looking at the where the sidewalk is and that we do have a consultant that we're working with through the, through our design team.

[00:39:37] Member Pat Showalter: Great. Thank you. I don't see any more hands raised or public comment. Right. Okay. Um. So, We have a recommendation.

[00:39:56] Member Pat Showalter: in front of us. Um, To, uh, to fund, um, 13.500000 of which 1300000 will be used for approved pre-development activities. That's correct, right?

[00:40:12] Deanna Talavera: Correct. So this committee is being asked to, um, make a recommendation to the full city council. To appropriate funding in the amount of 13.5 million. Right. Um, of which one.300000 for predevelopment.

[00:40:27] Member Pat Showalter: So now we're at the time of the meeting, well, we need to specifically discuss that. And um, I wonder if there are any comments or questions from um, the committee members. Um, Council member Robert Koga.

[00:40:41] Member Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, chair. Um, so again, thank you to staff for all of your hard work and for um, the applicant too. I know there's been many iterations. I think the design, um, it's still a work in progress and I look forward to seeing, um, the, the next iteration, hopefully the final iteration of the, of design. I think, um, we had made some comments at our council meeting about, um, uh, improvements that we'd like to see in that. But other than that, um, you know, I've been a proponent of this project from day one, especially, um, in light of the, um, added, the extra units that we've been able to, uh, gain from the, um, the, um, the storage, the, I forget the public storage, um, applicant in their donating, um, the, the land and then having that land facing Terabella, it's a better location than the original Um, uh, proposal. So, um, I think it's, you know, been improving over time. The project is improving over time. So I look forward to, um, continuing to support it and I will support the staff recommendation today. Um, I did want to just thank, um, Andre, Giovanni, and Umberto for, um, attending our meeting today, um, as I, as I asked in the Q and A part. Um, we and I just want to make sure it's clear that, um, we do have, we require prevailing wage on, um, affordable housing projects that, um, involved the city. So city, anything that has city funds or city land. And this was something that, um, I think we, it's probably been over 10 years now that we instituted that requirement, um, I personally, um, you know, believe that, um, with, especially with affordable housing projects, we should be paying a livable wage, um, because we don't necessarily want to be, you know, building affordable projects or having affordable projects built by folks who, um, you know, could qualify, like the whole idea is to, to, um, you know, have folks be able to, um, afford to live here, um, with a livable living wage. So, um, you know, I think we have addressed that in terms of the other, um, items, I believe, um, stuff can correct me if I'm wrong, but, um, we do have a responsible construction. Um, ordinance, uh, draft or proposal that should be coming to us, I believe, later this year or early next year. So, um, my expectation is that we will be, uh, discussing some of the other items that, um, are the members of the, um, local, um, brought up today address today. So we do plan to address those issues at a later time within the ordinance proposal. So, um, I, with that, and I encourage, um, the members to to continue to engage with us and provide your input. So, um, with that, uh, yes, I'm happy uh, I can make a motion now or wait. Um, okay, I'm happy to make the motion more um, to move staff recommendation to uh, recommend the, the $13.500000 in uh, NoFA funds for this project. Thank you. Okay.

[00:44:09] Member Pat Showalter: Um, and um, Vice Mayor Hicks, would you like to, um, 2nd and comment?

[00:44:18] Member Alison Hicks: Yes, um yes, I'd like to 2nd the motion. Council member Abit Koga took most of my comments. I'm glad to see representatives from the local, but I do think we're addressing with our prevailing wage policy and upcoming policies, um, that we're addressing some of their concerns. And then I just wanted to tell the design and development team that I'm, I'm really encouraged seeing some of the interface, um, the uh, public interface on the sidewalk, the amount of uh, landscaping and setback so that hopefully it will engage well with the the neighbors and and be walkable. Um, and I'm glad the stoops look kind of lowered more than a lot of the stoops I've seen, which I actually think is nice. I don't see people sitting on long stairways. So, um, I would like to see, I, I like the member of the public who commented about, um, being careful where the, um, where the PG&E lines and so forth are. So I'd like to hear more about that when we, um, when it comes back to, uh, the full council. But yes, I'll 2nd the motion.

[00:45:27] Member Pat Showalter: Excellent. Okay, well, I'd like to make a comment too. I too am very supportive of this project. And, um, I've, there are a couple things I'd like to thank, um, everybody who's involved with. First of all, I think that the reconfiguration of the land with public storage is really creative. And it makes a better storage project, and it makes a much better affordable housing project. Not to mention the fact that we get more units out of it. So that's, that's very good, but, you know, that kind of land, um, swap and reconfiguration is something government can't do. But developers can do it. So we're really pleased. We're really pleased that you did do it because it will make the, um, the project for our community much better. And that's really what we're after, right? Um, I'd also like to, again, thank the union members for coming. It's always important to keep, um, keep us, us educated about what we need to do. And having prevailing wages. You know, we all know how expensive it is to live around here. It's important to do. Um, I also wanted to, um, to say thank you for the landscaping improvements. Um, in the last few months in particular, um, we've heard again and again about the value of trees. And um, particularly, I think, here close to the um, freeway. Um, there's all sorts of air pollution advantages, but just the shade and the beauty that they provide. It's, it's, it's a big deal for our community. So, um, paying attention to that is is really important. I'm also pleased to see that that most of this parking is above ground. You know, we're in an area there that is, um, that is made up of primarily of bay mud, and sand and gravel, and it's hard to, uh, you know, it's really hard to make, um, uh, underground. Basements and stuff in that geologic setting. So I'm glad that you're not doing that. That's good. Um, I just finished hearing a presentation about groundwater rising related to. So anyway, I'm glad that the parking is going to be above ground. It also, I know, is less expensive. Um. So. Those are, yeah, primarily my thoughts, I, you know, I really am pleased at how this is progressing and I look forward to seeing it through the next steps. Um. Oh, I do have one more question, Carlos, though. And that's about the tax credits. You mentioned that the, um, going for the tax credit with the state only happens once a year now. Um, Can you tell us a little bit about that? And is that something that we should be advocating about? Let

[00:48:36] Carlos Castellanos: me, uh, clarify that and and apologize if I wasn't clear that there is a round every year for other state money, not the tax credits, that's the 2nd to last source that we tend to get. Once we've collected all the, all of the, the local and county and state sources, then we can, and we, the only last bit of money is the tax credits. Um, so that actually does happen more than once a year, the tax credits. Um, they, they have all become more competitive though. And I didn't mention this so much. But one thing that we're really doing, and I think we've shown it in previous slides and previous presentations is how, We're really looking at cost consciousness here, and the idea was within the same building space, if we can, um, be more cost conscious. I know it's been, it's been, we've put that charge onto the, onto the, uh, the design team because it's going to really pay off in being more competitive for these sources, both the state, what we call the housing community development source, and the tax credit source. There are 2 different sources, but they're both, both of them have a, a, a requ-, um, not that they, they have, uh, their, uh, criteria, looks at the cost per unit on these buildings, and, and as you've seen in the, in the, the graphic, uh, the Bay Areas costs have gone up, and we're trying to do what we can to control it, um, in every way possible. But that's how we're going to be more, you know, more competitive in both of those, both the supernova, as we call it, and then the tax credit rounds.

[00:50:16] Member Pat Showalter: Another thing that I really like to see in this, um, in this project is the fact is a mix of apartments. We've just completed circle that are, you know, more studio oriented. And I think, you know, we all know that there is a tremendous need for family housing. And, and it seems like this, that's what this is really designed to do is provide family housing. So I think, you know, that's good. I'm really pleased to see it. Okay. Well, with all that said, I think it's probably time for us to have a vote. Um, so would you like to have a roll call? Uh, Deanna? Or Lisa? Yes. Uh,

[00:50:54] Lisa: council member, Abbe Koga?

[00:50:56] Member Margaret Abe-Koga: I.

[00:50:56] Lisa: Vice Mayor Hicks?

[00:50:59] Member Alison Hicks: Yes.

[00:51:00] Lisa: And Cherisho Walter.

[00:51:02] Member Pat Showalter: Yes.

[00:51:03] Lisa: Thank you. Okay.

[00:51:06] Member Pat Showalter: Well, that brings us to the end of our agenda. And um, I want to thank uh, everyone who took part and all the time and effort that um, was required to get us here and um, urge us all to stay the course. Until we get to um, that ribbon cutting. Hopefully in 2024. Okay, meeting adjourn. Thank you. Thank you.

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