 Okay, welcome everybody to the October 12th 2023 regular scheduled city council meeting May we have a roll call Councilmember Clark, Councilmember Peterson, Vice Mayor Brown, and Mayor Kaiser here and please join in the Pledge of Allegiance Thank you. Do we have any additions or deletions? Staff has one proposed change to the agenda this evening the item 3a the presentation on unmanned aerial vehicles Staff would like to remove that from this agenda item. We will be bringing it back at a future meeting Okay, thanks So then we can skip over three And down to additional materials that received one email communication relating to item 7g on tonight's agenda and two email communications related to item 8b on tonight's agenda all Items have been incorporated into the online agenda packet as well as presentations for tonight's general government items Great You can open it up to oral communications by members of the public and this Can be on anything on consent or anything that is not agendized this evening and you will have No more than three minutes. Hi, my name is Gordon Klapec Today at 1246 I made an emergency call to the CPD because I caught somebody begging for money by the Nob Hill and Pete's coffee premises That was in the premises of for Capitola city and Capitola village as I as I know I never encountered that before That's somebody's begging for money Capitola is a very rich community and it should not be allowing Homeless people or whoever is on for so unfortunate enough to beg for money That's all I want to say. Thank you very much. God bless you. Goodbye mayor and city council Gary Richard Arnold a lot of people are unfamiliar with the powers that exist in the state of California the most of the newspapers were bought out by a Coalition of Bill Gates and other people of almost 18 years ago. He bought the mercury Sentinel a Monterey heralds in San Luis Obispo Tribune and If you know the history of the good times you really should look up mr. Weinstein and in these times he's to drive around the Morton sobo atomic spies They continue to endorse as they do, but they look, you know, very friendly They also have a conduit in San Luis Obispo called Newtimes But the propaganda continues The largest lobby west of the Mississippi is California forward, which is put together by Leon Panetta Very powerful and if you ever happen to go to the courthouse steps You'll find the communist spy has two plaques in his honor He belonged to at least four different spy rings where silver master a Couple of other storage, which is most successful spy ring ever The co-founder with Leon Panetta for California forward is Lenny Mendonca And he belongs to a committee for economic development. They advocating Abolishing you and they've been setting up a parallel government for some 25 30 years and It's a cog a council of governments a Soviet in which the mayor and vice-mayor is a member of Which is ambag? I Asked you both mayor and vice-mayor to have community TV show up and do that Since ambag is made up at 13 cities and three counties and I noticed just for your You know July community TV. It was six hundred and seventy eight dollars That means it's only gonna cost forty two dollars for each city in each county to become Transparent and see where a lot of dirty back room stuff goes on and you know it Anyway ambag has a handle national manipulation Both the World Bank and the United Nations are seeking to harmonize as you hear people the various times I attend For 13 cities and three counties they had six copies of the agenda Can I hear that please? Please can you please speak if you if you don't want to listen? Don't that's all right Also, I think it's important that you look at the management form of government the city managers, thank you, I'd like to pull The three-minute item G off the consent calendar. Thank you Guess I'll sign us later. My name is James Ewing Whitman. I used to live within a mile here I came here. It took me almost 30 minutes to get here I'm less than three miles. It's crazy this time of day So I appreciate that all of you are mostly paying attention to the previous speaker I've been here before and I've witnessed most of you looking down at your phones or computers So I'm not really quite sure where to start to talk I had several opportunities to pull four items off the consent agenda with the city of Santa Cruz and Got a really good one-sided explanation of city and county managers So I really have a lot of compassion for you guys I know that you would like to do I'm speaking to all four of you to do more for your constituents that voted you in their office But you're being controlled like puppets by an individual and I have don't know you Jamie at all but I'm very familiar with Carlos Palacios and Previous city managers before Matt So I have a lot of compassion because I'm sure your constituents are wanting you to do things that you're not able to do because this is a charter city and It's been under the control of international organizations in the United States since 1915 So probably enough on that. There's a lot of crazy things going on in our society I'm not quite sure why a city council member on Tuesday Decided to present a one-sided conversation about some atrocities that are happening in a section of the Middle East Whole area that was created before 1950 I have a globe that shows what that part of the world looked like before 1945 and we are all in this together And I'm in 15 seconds, so I'll share something At least with mr. Clark. I mean I appreciate meeting him a couple weeks ago on September 19th as he was a volunteer deputy and He gave me some really good observations that I think I used and hopefully I'm using those observations now I would much prefer to be talking to a guest speaker and a K through 8 because Those children have brothers and sisters in the room and they're there to learn something and help each other Where you guys have your arms tied? So I wrote something five to seven years ago that I'd be happy to share with you at least you mr. Clark Where I feel because of the exact top topography here that you could set up events and make at least $300,000 on a three-day event where there would be like a hundred and twenty thousand dollars in hard costs But eighty thousand of that would be reusable and I would love to talk to you guys about ways to Make the city better and I'm very happy that the capitol up here is being repaired because I've been enjoying that for more than 50 years, so thank you Thank you Anybody else in house wish to speak Seeing none No, your time has been up. Thank you. Can we go online to see if there's anything Sir your time has been up. I'm really sorry. I am too Anybody Thank you There are no speakers with their hands raised on zoom. Okay. Thank you We'll take this to any staff comments Do you believe we have one important staff introduction here to make Important staff introduction to make that's the queue Try again Good evening mayor and council We're here this evening to introduce Ranger who is a two and a half or two-year-old Labradoodle it was The funding for it was donated from a private vendor or private donor But he's joined our team and he's been a really welcomed addition to our department actually the first day one of we put him out on social media and Actually, someone came down a young lady came down and to actually introduce herself to the dog She had no idea that a dog like this would be a part of a police department So he's been really well received his job is to go out and do just stuff like this and be in the community But he also has a professional side to him that he can sit down do child interviews And we're hoping to develop him better as far as the the more More ways that we can use him in the community to get out them Just kind of put a different face to to our department everyone else But like I said, it's been a he just wanders around our office or more than welcome to come down and Sergeant Samora is working and introduce yourself take him for a walk. Whatever Like I said, he's a he's a he's a part of our department in the community. So We're glad to have Ranger Get on that We have he's so sweet. Awesome. Thank you guys. It's too early to nominate him for the officer of the year All right, and we'll take it back to counsel for comments Thank you first I want to Comment on our consent agenda and thank staff for returning the tobacco waste as a public health issue Item that will be on consent. I appreciate that We also received an email About a right to read proclamation And so I'd like to ask for a future agenda item with a resolution against banning books and materials in the Santa Cruz public library system And then I just wanted to share Some more good news coming out of Santa Cruz Metro. It feels like every time the Metro Board meets there's some new exciting news and this time it's that Metro has been awarded $508,000 from the clean California program for its bus stop improvement project And it will be used the funds will be used to install 23 bus shelters 23 benches and 18 trash cans at bus stops across the service area. So along with our recent contract for the largest Hydrogen fuel cell electric battery bus fleet in the country and our reimagined Metro That's going to be bringing more service through our city. There's just a lot of really exciting things going on in Metro that I wanted to share Thank you. Thank you. That's great Shout out for a sea whip in the October Fest coming up on Saturday noon to six at the Esplan Park, there'll be music there by a Drive machine in Santa Cruz Should be a good event and be more money for our great project out on the work So we're around on Saturday Thank you I love the flyer I'm gonna come in prepared next time with like stuff to present make sure we get that out I have a couple of announcements The first is that I too attended the league with councilmember Peterson So we had a great time attending the league of cities on the from the 20th through the 22nd And I was representing the as the first president of the Monterey Executive Board of Directors for the League of City, so The biggest takeaway that I had there was this phenomenal speaker Brandon Fleming who said we cannot be what we cannot see and it just really resonated with me, especially as policy makers attending that event because I was able to attend the previous event where we set the policies That we wanted to see come to fruition for the state of California and to see everyone there was great and We had a great time with together. I also want to give a huge shout out to our police officer Sarah Ryan our Who helped coordinate with the youth action network and several other organizations at the youth hub? It's going to be named soon But what we were able to do is utilize the space at the capitol of mall to invite youth in and Offer resources and snacks and just a cool safe place to be We're going to be circling back in a couple of days to Talk about whether we can make this happen in perpetuity or as a meeting spot So more to come on that it was a great turnout and then also on last Friday Friday update we received correspondence regarding the chiefs council and I like for staff to come back to us I'm so full counsel on the process in which the members were picked and and what we can do to help support the that group moving forward and And ensuring that we have just a really great diverse representation of the community and that's a lab. Thank you And I would just like to piggyback on that if we're going to agenda its the council For the chief if we could maybe get a little bit more background information on Sort of where this came about and what the group is all about because I think I need to know more so I'm sure others might as well Thank you. Okay. So consent item seven These can be enacted in one motion in the form listed below Or unless anybody needs to pull something Do we have a first I'll move to adopt the consent agenda a second Great first in a second. Maybe we have a roll call, please council member Brooks. Hi council member Clark Hi council member Peterson. Hi nice mayor Brown. Hi and mayor Kaiser. Hi. Thank you so much You already had your three minutes your three minutes are up for that The opportunity to speak on consent items is at the beginning during general public comment Okay, moving on to eight general government 8a. We have the cliff drive resiliency project The recommended action tonight is to authorize the city manager to execute the professional services agreement with csw stuber strew engineering group incorporated for professional planning permitting design services and For this brazil's brazil's. Oh my gosh resiliency project in the amount of 1.193 Um, and we have director con here Hi good evening mayor and council. I'm here this evening to talk to you all about the cliff drive resiliency project next site, please So a little bit of background if you're not familiar with cliff drive. Um, it's this cliff side drive right over there It's a heavily utilized arterial road. It's used for emergency access both Into and out of the village. It has a multi user base It has a lot of pedestrians and bicycle users out there looking for the view and to come into the village As well as quite a bit of vehicle track back It's the same damage in january 2023 during the storms mostly during near the two parking areas A lot of the riprap was damaged at that time and localized bluff erosion staff has been able to secure funding to both study and now construct some type of Shoreline armoring in this area First from the coastal commission's local coastal program grant that is funding the alternatives analysis that we had reported on earlier this year and most recently FHWA federal highway administration's emergency relief funding via caltrans for the repair And betterment of this area next slide please So these are the two areas that had the localized erosion this year There wasn't a whole lot of damage to this band in between however the emergency funding from fhwa Allows us to apply for a betterment So that Allows us to apply for funding to stabilize the entire bluff side not just the side that was damaged And so that's where the funding is coming from for this program next slide, please This couple of images of the damage that occurred. This is right above the upper or uphill parking area next slide And then this is the current shoreline armoring we have here We have the riprap on the bottom and this wall at the top. It was installed in 1997 That's the picture on the left and then this is from earlier this year on the right You can see it is somewhat eroded and is in need of repair replacement Next slide, please So we put this project out to bid following all the caltrans guidelines a couple of months ago and received A consultant proposal from csw st2 And that combines several subs on this project who are really well respected in this area We initially expected proposals From multiple proposals from places like ngo bigskardosa moffat and nickle And considering the timeline of this project and the very wide scope of this project going all the way from planning through construction The feedback we got from all of these groups was really to get it Done in that timeline in the appropriate way that they really needed to come together And that is the reason we really only got one combined proposal for this project next slide So the design scope is divided into two areas one being the alternatives analysis Which is going to take into consideration the existing conditions and opportunities in the area Do outreach project alternatives refine the project alternative and then phase two is bringing us to design and construction So i'm going to go a little bit deeper into each of these steps on these next slides So our opportunities and constraints assessment is really assessing Existing conditions and doing like initial technical analyses So really just kind of understanding what's even feasible for arm ring in this area And the deliverable from that is to really get a map showing what the Existing topography boundaries kind of what our restrictions are with the Caltrans rtc right of way And the bluff slope next slide Then we go into the alternatives analysis, which for phase one is really the bulk of this project so it's a detailed analysis of And creating visual exhibits of alternatives those detailed analysis being considering design life Postal access transportation visual impact sea level rise Many of the things we're going to have to get permits for in phase two and then a lot a lot of outreach so both public outreach with um Surveys social media public meetings meetings here to the council updating you along the way And then also outreach to our stakeholders All of our permitting agencies and then others such as um the surf writer foundation and other interested parties um from the outreach and the detailed analysis we will refine our design alternatives and identify a preferred option And that preferred option is what we would take to the coastal and coastal commission To do a local coastal program amendment So this will require an amendment to our local coastal program and then also a permit specifically for this project next slide please And then the last part of phase one would be to do those final technical analyses after we get Sign off from the coastal commission that this is a good project to go with And then that final stakeholder outreach where we go to the community with this is what the final plan is Next slide please So with that 35 project that we have from our first phase we'll go into phase two To prepare and circulate all of our environmental documentation. Um, we anticipate an Initial study mitigated neg deck for our sequa And then that to inform the categorical exclusions for nipa nipa is required because this is a federal project federally funded project Next slide please We're apparently having some audio issues on the youtube and the zoom So we were just they asked in the back if we could pause for a moment or two And I think the audio actually just went live. It's showing as tracking right now. So the audio should be good Okay on that case Sorry, okay. All right Um, let's post it So also with these 35 plans we can go out and get all of our regulatory permits So there's a host of them. They are listed here. There are probably more than are listed here So that will be a big bulk of phase two is getting all the permits for this project similar and probably a little more than What we received for the wharf And then also going back and getting the coastal development permit Through our local coastal program. We'll have more details on that the closer we get to it next slide, please And then our final design our bid ready plan specifications and estimates And then we can take all that and go back to cattle trans and ask for our Funds for construction and so all of this needs to take place before september of 2025 Next slide please So here is our schedule you can see many of the tasks overlap That's really just the point of the slide as many of these tasks overlap and it's a very quick process to get from really a planning conceptual Design to a final permitted and funded project through fhwa Next slide please As far as the fiscal impact goes so There are two parts of these federally funded projects one is for what they call preliminary engineering But that's really taking us through our fully designed project even though it's just called preliminary So that is currently funded by funded They mean money that we can spend towards it and they will give us 88 percent of it So they will the federal government will provide $743,000 of which we are to match with non-federal funds Luckily, we have the coastal commission grant which are state funds so we can use that as our match And then the remaining of that funds So Rounds out the whole funding for the project So we have the bottom line there the 743 from federal government the match That's required and then the remainder of the coastal commission grant all adds up to 1.2 million dollars So there's no general fund money going to this project to the design of this project at this point Next slide please The construction phase funding we've been approved for 8.4 million dollars in federal funding There is a chance that once we get through our whole planning criteria that we can ask for up to 15 percent more than that And those are usually relatively easy to get approved We still have to come up with the approximately 12 percent match regardless of the funding that they give us That funding could come from measure f it could come from the state coastal Conservancy since a mitigation of this project is likely to be a walkway on the top of the and that is something that the Coastal conservancy would fund and then there are other grant opportunities that would Generally fund multimodal transportation and coastal access that the city staff will be looking into during this project Next slide please And so this is our final recommended action to authorize the city manager to execute the professional services agreement In a similar form as the attached agreement similar form being that this is still going through cal trans review There are two departments of cal trans that this has to go through one is actually already been approved So we're good to go. We're waiting on their architectural engineering review, which we expect in the next week which may change a couple of the Points in the agreement. So that's why we don't have the totally Approved agreement in front of you today and then to adopt a resolution to accept the funds for both fhwa and the Coastal commission and I am available for any questions Questions from anybody Is there a specific Form of erosion control being considered at this time or will that come out of the study? They'll be coming out of the alternatives analysis You mentioned a walkway is that on the ocean side or Preferably yes, okay like where the parking is now Partially where the parking is the idea would be to retain the parking everyone likes parking right coastal commission Never wants to restrict that would be restricting access We anticipate the coastal commission having that be one of our mitigations for this project is to include a walkway Okay, cool. Thank you Oh another question. Yeah Well, we have an opportunity for to provide feedback at some point during this process Absolutely. Yes. That is part of the public outreach part So there's public outreach to the general community to interest in parties but then also to the council specifically all right any Public comment on this specific item Yeah, my name is james ewing women. I appreciate the presentation. I certainly learned a lot So about 1.3 million dollars in design fees for something that was built. I think in 1995 Seemed to last 25 years with the plans for that lost Didn't they just be reused? So it's just a I want to stay on topic But I mean I appreciate that this is like a regular commercial project where it's heavily front-loaded at the beginning So that stuff can be invested There's so many of the agenda 2030 words being used equity Stakeholders and stuff the whole cliff drive resiliency project you know Last year storms were pretty impressive, but there have been a lot of impressive storms going on so Hopefully tiny projects like this and we have miles of coastline can be remedied in Simple ways as what was done 25 years ago that lasted 25 years. Thank you. Thank you Any other members of the public Or anybody online There are no speakers with their hands raised mayor. Okay, we can take it back to council for deliberation Or comments Yeah, I'd be happy to move the recommended action From staff this evening Great, we have a motion and a second. Maybe we have a roll call, please Councilmember Brooks Councilmember Clark. Hi councilmember Peterson. Hi Vice mayor Brown. Hi and mayor Kaiser. Hi passes unanimously. Thank you All right, we will move down to a item 8b housing element update We are here to accept the presentation and direct staff to incorporate planning commission and the california department of housing and community Development recommendations into the draft housing element And here is miss early Thank you mayor and council. Um tonight. We've got layla from our city attorney's office also joining me She's been really instrumental in the housing element update and we do not have our um We don't have our um with us right or Veronica tan. We're trying to stay on budget with this project So it will be at the adoption hearings. Um, so tonight. I'm giving you an update on our housing element Next slide, please Within the update first, I'll do a quick introduction to what a housing element is and then what we've heard in the last 90 days With the hcd review And the next steps So housing element it's really it's identifying the needs within our community for future housing and Then it also sets um, it plans how we're going to meet that need in the coming cycle of eight years So we're about to enter our sixth cycle And the deadline for this Update is december 15 In the process we've come a long way. Um, we've dropped out our housing needs Our element programs The last step that we just made it through is the 90 day review by hcd And within that review period. Um, we had the opportunity of meeting with them multiple times and getting comments back on our draft element So on this slide, I show the public review draft is towards the back that went out in may and then in july we submitted to hcd Usually I would come back to the planning commission and city council in between give you updates get your feedback But it's a really limited window. So we just continued at a staff level to work with hcd get comments and uh with our local knowledge and understanding Typical direction from planning commission and council we continued to proceed In work through comments. So we're now We've got our september 19th update and we received comments on october 3rd from hcd It's the final comment Which is a five page letter which is attached to your report this evening and The five page letter is a really short letter for hcd comments after 90 days. So we're getting close Next slide, please So tonight i'll be Highlighting what changes we made in response to hcd and then i'll also if you can look forward be Providing the updates from the october Third letter. So really it's the october third letter that are the outstanding items And at the end of my slide presentation, I'll have a slide that brings it all together of what we're recommending or And looking for feedback on this evening Next slide, please So our housing needs and opportunities This we had to provide a lot more information of how we came up with the sites that were identified and the assumptions that were put into our housing inventory and then also Providing updated we had to update our sites inventory next During this process in our letter we got feedback from hcd at the capitol amal site We needed to provide additional information. So in the next round we're going to Provide more of a story of what's happened at the capitol amal over the years and the big the submittal in 2019 And the proposed phasing so that will be it'll be a a lot more clear in the update Next slide, please So we did make changes to our sites inventory during this time We received a letter from ralone gyre. We also received comments from yin b during about our sites inventory And we ended up removing the coles site from the mall because they do have a long-term lease there and then we added a few sites which At this point we have a 14 percent buffer Which is healthy. I was hoping to get to 15 but somewhere between 15 and 20 but we're at 14 Which is a good spot because originally I think we're at 18. So with the removal of some sites If we go to the next slide, I can show you exactly what's changed since she last saw this so we We were directed to remove all the state sites. So those have now been removed including the dmp site and the new brighton site Also, the coal site has been removed We added portions of sites. So for knob hill we added the parking lot in front of the grocery store Where you could actually do some housing We didn't use the whole parking lot. I think we used about 50 and that's the same for king's plaza so just a portion of those sites where you could possibly put housing and Have a parking garage because you would need additional parking And then also added the macy's site at the mall because it's ready for redevelopment as well next slide, please So in our first iteration the mall had 853 units associated with it The letter we received from our lone geyer is that, you know, coals has a long-term lease also some of the internal Smaller shops along the spine. You know the macy's entrance have long-term And that they've got some parking agreements with target and macy's so we And we also heard from them that they thought there's an over reliance on the mall and we're concerned with no net loss Findings we also heard that from yinbi So in the current draft We're at 641 units. That's including the macy's site, which is not owned by a more lone geyer Remove the coal site and then as I stated previously sites that we added In terms of our constraints There were requests for more information. So They just wanted more information on what tools we have I think the state was really happy that we don't have density limits within our mixed used areas And a lot of programs we already have in place in terms of ad use so where they were asking for more information on that they're satisfied that we've We've got great programs implemented for ad use And just updates on additional information for residential care and water Within our housing plan, this is where you have your programs and you set states and targets for achieving in our first housing program we talk about diversity of housing type and The hcd came back and they said we really want you to start targeting more housing in your single family high resource neighborhoods And so as you know, we have our adu ordinance. We have sp9 They said we'd like you to go beyond what the state requires and take it to the next level. So The recommendation for this to go beyond and get more access into our Lower density neighborhoods is one to look at our density limits on our low and medium density Which are really low. So I think there's The opportunity there to raise it by a few units per acre That's and then also to allow duplexes on corner a lot from the r1 zone So those are the and tie those to objective standards So making sure that like, you know, the front edge is Oriented towards the towards the street. So it kind of looks like two single family homes and Make sure there's parking access and standards that are measurable Within program 1.4 Which we're Proposing to expand the community benefits zone Hcd came back. They actually they've met with the mb. There were a lot of conversations about this of really looking at our community benefits zones, which right now are around the mall and you can get increased floor area ratio and height and They're saying they haven't seen the impact of that. We haven't had any projects developed. So let's reanalyze it look at the application process and Look at objective including objective standards. So more projects will come in and developers will know what to expect Next slide, please So our recommendation tonight is that we update this with commitments to revisit the community benefits overlay We'll incorporate objective standards and then we'll also reevaluate those incentives of additional height and far the housing plan These two programs they talk about residential parking requirements. We're going to revise We didn't get any comments on that from hcd One program that we've add is a new shopping center development program So it's not only tied to the mall. It could be at king's plaza any of our begonia plaza Long 41st avenue and the commitment here is to move forward with our land use study, which is underway And then from that land use study The initial draft had it was quite prescriptive and what we would be doing on these shopping centers and comments From our planning commission and if you can tap forward Planning commission said this is way too specific We're saying we're going to look at clustering and we're prescribing the outcome So let's remove what we're prescribing and get the results of that land use study and then commit to Implementing that the outcome of that study. So that's one of our recommendations this evening And then our housing plan Um If you could forward on this, we also got comments from the hcd about there's new state law around new religious facility housing in which you can put Housing over I think it's 50 of the existing parking areas So There was a request from the state for us to go deeper into that and draft up objective standards tied to that new state law as well as identifying how we're going to Deal with underutilized buildings parking and how that will impact additional development Next slide So we'll be providing more details on that to the state and then Other additions with one was to encourage developers and contractors to hire a local labor That's we had public comment on that and have been submitting that into the draft There's a program for emergency rental housing, which we already have going but a Commitment to continue it and then also just updates to the fair housing actions This is summary And then in terms of affirmatively furthering fair housing the comments here We're really to create more more opportunities in our single family neighborhoods. So next This is just again Relooking at our density limits with a low and medium multifamily and then the differences on corn a lot So there's a lot of Typing on this slide and I break about every slide rule for a presentation here. So Please excuse this slide, but I just wanted to let you know We received you received a letter yesterday from EMB. We've been working really closely with them throughout this whole process and the Their comments really align with a lot of the suggestions that hcd had so Tonight I would like The recommendation to include to incorporate EMB's comments into the updated draft on this slide. I've I've included the language It'll probably be massaged a little bit with you are working with the consultant and what they think it should exactly say in the update But really this it talks about just working with ambag towards high quality transit stops Uh incentivizing more housing along your transit corridors, which is a no-brainer, right in modern planning Um, also looking at those incentives for community benefits utilizing an outcome of our study Um and objective standards is something that comes up again and again with EMB is really making it clear to your applicants What we're going to be looking for And also just tracking the mall as we move through it On an annual basis provide updates on what's going on with the mall And then that religious facilities housing and how to incorporate that into our code so a lot of overlap with the hcd comments, which is great and Janine's been fantastic to work with with the EMB group. So next slide please So these are this is the recommendation tonight includes all of these final edits for adoption and we're going to be Going to press tomorrow for a planning commission special meeting for The draft update so any comments you make tonight that you'd like updated into this draft will be moving forward with our adoption hearing So here I have the all the strategies I've brought up in my presentation. I'm happy to answer any questions um, and then We can move into public comment The recommendation this evening, I guess next steps Is planning commission next week and then I'll be bringing The final draft view on november 9th for adoption The statutory deadline is december 15th So recommended action tonight is to direct staff to incorporate the planning commission hcd And sanacruz EMB recommendations into the draft housing element in preparation for adoption It's slightly changed that I added the EMB. Yeah to the original Recommendation so with that I'm available for questions and great. Thank you Council questions I just have one question about the shopping center redevelopment and program 1.7 Hcd and their letter had like specific language about how to facilitate this development and monitor Approvals and it gave us examples like coordination with applicants and supporting funding applications But we didn't use any of the language. They gave us and I'm just wondering why Um, well from the letter we haven't seen that the latest update in our The draft that you have is was prior To our most up to date. Oh, oh, I see. Okay. That's why so it'll those will be incorporated in the next that will be okay So make sense. Thank you. We are going to talk through that one with hcd because We really think that the outcome of that study is necessary before we say exactly what I have one question And talking about revising parking requirement is that adding more or less or It'll most likely be taking away for a change. So on multifamily right now We require two and a half spaces per unit. We'll probably be looking at it differently of like maybe taking a bedroom cow or looking at for a footage But the trend is to like require less parking difficult thing for small capital But I understand the other thing with uh, um, I'm not sure how they play into this and how we incorporate them into our Our plan it's kind of like an outside entity or something but I'm not sure how I feel about that Yeah, you know, uh, yimby's been working with communities throughout California on their housing element updates. They're really focused on their housing element This the Santa Cruz yimby group has been working with all of the local jurisdictions here and giving feedback and they've um It's actually been really helpful to hear their comments and It's great that they align with the hcd comments. So Kind of positive Great job, by the way um I had a question about the 50% parking at knob hill and king's plaza. Do you think that Hcd is going to consider that to be a realistic possibility for development I do I think because it's partial and we know that those um I think king's plaza is a very successful plaza. They've got great businesses in there. I don't think anyone's Moving away too fast, but this is um I'm working with our consultant with Veronica. This has been a strategy that they've used in the past that has been successful and um That they're allowed to do that at that location currently. Yep Yeah, you can do as long as commercial is on the site you can build housing next to it. It just We don't require that all ground floor be commercial So you could do a housing development next to a commercial site. So it would work great Oh I think it's six hundred park avenue Is that on the current list? It's not uh 600 park avenue was in the last two rounds of our housing element and Kind of puts us at risk that it wouldn't um You're required to go before the planning commission for review if it were in the third round So right now it's not currently in our list and actually I went out there toward the site with Veronica and Once she saw it. It's really uh, there's a lot of individual single story buildings She said to redevelop that site. You'd really have to put at least Three to four times the amount of housing that's there to get The money back from the investment that they're already making off of those rentals So she thought it was really a challenge to site compared to other ones which king's plaza. She thought was fantastic Yep, okay. Thank you. Do you have to uh provide those housing units? You can't just remove them yet Replace all of the ones and then Build on top of that It is a very large I'm sure you've said this before when we identify sites such as king's plaza or the not hill shopping center Do you notify that like what's the You know for like surprise, you know, I know we did community input first stages, right? We went out and and so now that we're moving forward. What's that process look like or what's been done or are we surprising folks? you know, we did developer interest meetings in the beginning and actually that I was I Provided input that they'd be interested on a neighboring parcel, but as we've been moving through this I have been sending the updates out to all interested parties which a lot of those Anyone that told me that they were interested along the way, which the developer interest meetings They've been getting my you're all getting my emails right whenever we update the housing elements So they're getting those we're not reaching out to them directly to say you've been added to the housing element list, but The the noticing requirements tied to a housing element is if it affects more than a thousand properties You can put a quarter page add in the newspaper So that's what we're doing for our adoption here as well as the emails I had a question about Didn't we talk about the religious property up on? Monterey Was that included Yes, and they they have developer interest there. So they I think they're moving forward with two units currently Oh, okay. So is that something different than the Was there like a percentage? Oh, no, never mind. I think I'm confusing them parking Okay, but that is still considered that is still considered. Okay. Okay. I should have added one more thing Planning commission also directed staff in that The long list at their end. They directed us. We're taking out the state sites But they've asked us to include a new program to start working with this on And asking them to like engaging with them during the cycle in hopes that by the next cycle The state might be willing to include the dmv site or the or new brighton But in order to include a state site you have to have the letter of intent That's good information. Thank you Is that for questions? Yeah Could you speak on on the last item from the yinbi letter? develop local implementation ordinances for additional transit oriented development state laws You know what that means Are you looking at the letter or the the letter? Can you bring up the list again? And I can I can I'm also happy to read what it says under that title I think it has to do with development along our transit corridors, which we're If if directed tonight, we'll We'll put that in the update So it says the city should include a program to develop a local Implementation ordinance to incentivize the affordable housing on sites along the transit corridors So I guess I'm just not sure what in implementation ordinance Yeah, so that would do specifically So I actually in thinking this Ruin of what will probably be utilizing is our community benefits in that That's one area if you're along a major transportation corridor the The site would probably qualify for a community benefit where we're talking about Expanding that community benefits overlay and then they would have the opportunity to get more floor area ratio and height That's one example of how you could do it But basically what they're asking us is to update our zoning ordinance to create more opportunities for housing affordable housing along transit corridors Thanks Hey, we can go out to public comment on just this item Yes. Hello. My name is still james ewing Whitman. I guess I have a clarification question A little sticker on my truck that says nimby not in my backyard Excuse me. I really don't know what why imb means But I would like to Besides that it's great to see you guys. I was looking forward to that presentation and I thought I could have made comments on the Body cameras and tasers So thank you. Thank you It means yes instead of no of course Is there anybody online that wishes to speak? There is one speaker with our hand raised mayor Janine you'll be allowed to speak for three minutes. I've asked you to unmute yourself once you start speaking the timer will begin Hello, everyone. Can you hear me? Okay? Yes Okay Hi mayor vice mayor and council members My name is janine roth and I am with santa cruz ymb Which as you as you note stands for yes in my backyard We're a chapter of ymb action and we advocate for abundant and affordable housing and inclusive and sustainable communities And as director hurley mentions, we've been tracking and providing feedback to each of the four cities in the county on their housing elements I do want to thank the director for her openness and the past meetings that she's had with us to get to a stronger housing element We do want capitol to have a compliant housing element And we also want to see the policies and programs that get to more affordable housing throughout the city I just wanted to share some breaking news from yesterday Which is that the governor signed quite a number of housing bills But that can also help capitol But especially as you're looking to add more housing in the eastern portion of the city with single family housing One is sp4, which is also known as yes in god's backyard Which expands the potential for housing on land not just the parking lots owned by religious institutions And as you have noted there you have two such sites already in your housing element and there may be more The other is one that's called ab 1033 Which authorizes local jurisdictions like capitol to adopt? Yes, a local ordinance that allows for ad us to actually be sold separately from the primary dwelling So including as condominiums. These are exciting laws that can actually help with missing middle housing In communities such as capitol But mostly I just want to say thanks again to everybody for being open to this discussion on housing And helping us to address the housing crisis in capitol and santa cruz county We want to see more neighbors who can live close to where they live To go to good schools and to be part of the economy and the community that is capitol. Thank you Thank you Anybody else online? There are no other speakers mayor. Okay We can come back to council comments or deliberation Thank you. Uh, I just wanted to first, uh, thank staff for the work in adding policy 2.5 about the labor Hiring local labor and hiring or contributing to apprenticeship programs that did come to us in a public comment Quite a while back and it was I think it was really important that we added that so thank you for taking the time on that Um, and I know it was already mentioned during the presentation that we were going to include these comments But I think it's just worth sharing Um, specifically about program 1.1 and the transit route at capitol amal Um, and the idea being that this is you know, not necessarily that we're reacting to what's going to happen But the where we are an active participant in it and working with ambag and working with metro and like I mentioned earlier with the reimagined metro um process happening right now Throughout the next year. We are likely to see much more frequency coming through capitol amal and so I think if we can get to that 15 minute frequency which is um I think possible if not probable Um, that's going to put us back onto what the state of california considers to be a high quality transit stop um We for those who follow this real exciting stuff Back in 20, uh, our 2040, uh, metropolitan transportation plan that was considered a high quality transit stop Then the state kind of changed the requirements of what a high quality transit stop is and then we fell off of um, that list in the 2045 Transportation plan and so now that we're looking at 2050 I think it's going to be really important that we have language in here that shows that we're going to be working with metro We're working with ambag. We're not just waiting for something to happen that we're active participants in it So I'm happy to hear Hear about that um, I think those were all of my comments Because it I had a question you already answered my other question about um, the language in the shopping center redevelopment I think that's it for now Thank you. I know that this was a lot of work over many years and we're not done yet But thank you so much staff. I know Poor poured your heart and soul into this. I have no doubt. Um I just wanted to touch on I I think I agree with um Planning commission to to not try to like pigeonhole us too Hard into anything and not be super specific Where we don't have to be and that way keep our options open a little bit more. Um, I think that Is a wise direction on their account um, just my two cents And then I don't know if anybody Does anything else? No, I'm happy to move or to direct staff to incorporate planning commission HCD Santa Cruz hymn be recommendations into draft housing element and preparation for adoption Um, I want to echo that. I recognize that there's a lot of work That's been put into this um And that I like seeing all the parties playing nicely together to get this done Because we're all saying the same thing. We all have the same concerns. It's been echoed here. It's been echoed on planning commission We're all, you know, working together and fairly in getting our housing element approved and I really Really want to acknowledge your your work katie Because we're the role model, right? We're we're moving forward in our housing element and a lot of cities are still struggling so exceptional job and exceptional job to the team and and um our consultants so that's my uh My motion before a second. I believe there's another comment I just wanted to echo that. I think you've done a really great job And I just wanted to thank you and the rest of the staff for working so hard on this Is that a second and I'll second Great. We have a first and a second. Maybe we have a roll call. Please Council member brooks. Hi council member clark. Hi Council member peterson. Hi vice mayor brown. Hi and mayor keiser Hi, that passes unanimously and again, thank you on the behalf of council and our entire city because It's not not anything I could ever do. So I'm just really impressed Um, and that'll take us to our last item item nine, which is adjournment. Thank you everybody for being here and showing your support for your city adjourned Well, that was a sad one. There we go