City Council on 2024-06-25 5:00 PM - JOINT MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL (REGULAR), SHORELINE REGIONAL PARK COMMUNITY (SPECIAL), AND CITY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FINANCING AUTHORITY (SPECIAL)
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Mountain View City Council
4h 16m
4 speakers
6 agenda items
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What is the agenda and closed‑session announcement at the start of the meeting?
Well welcome everybody. This is the June twenty fifth meeting of the Mountain View City Council. We will open with a closed session announcement. Um City Attorney Log will make a closed session announcement and then we will welcome public comment on the item listed for closed session. City Attorney. Thank you. Can you all hear me? We
can. Excellent. This is City Attorney Jennifer Lok. There is one item on this evening's closed session agenda. Item two point one is a conference with legal counsel regarding one item of anticipated litigation. Pursuant to government code section five four nine five six point nine D two. Thank you.
Thank you. Now we will take um Any oh. Would any members of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on the closed session item listed on tonight's agenda? If so, please click the raised hand button in Zoom or submit a speaker card to the city clerk. We will take in person speakers first. Each speaker will have three minutes. Do we have any speakers here? And there. We have no speakers here in the council chambers. I think we have one speaker on Zoom. Um April Webster.
Hi, uh Zapel Webster. Thank you for um having me speak. Uh I read the letter from Yembi Law and it was concerning to me, um, particularly because he asks to bypass requirements to add you know green spaces and improve the living conditions in the immediate in the immediate neighborhood and and um where the uh these developments to introduce affordable housing are are um taking place. I I think the more holistic design elements that address climate resiliency and encourage better health and social connection often get neglected disproportionately in an inequitable way in these communities that have been identified as disadvantaged. And I've seen this happen in some of the ATP applications when I've done an evaluation at the state level.
However, I do realize that we're in this position as the city wasn't able to meet the requirements to get our housing element approved by the deadline. So, you know, given where we're at, I would moving forward, I'd like to strongly encourage the council and city staff to take the following steps to make the best of the current situation and avoid a repeat in the future. Sure. Um and that there are three things. Um, first to, you know, do the best you can in the situation to negotiate with those VR applicants to get the an outcome, um, a good outcome, one that as good an outcome as we can, one that addresses climate resiliency, that maybe adds linear parks. Um, they don't necessarily have to be large parks.
They've been, you know, in Japan this has been shown to have positive benefit on biodiversity still. Mental health. It helps cool surrounding communities. You know, also in negotiating, encourage building offsets to make sure the sidewalks and streets are safer for people moving around by alternative modes of transportation. Second, you know, start to address the cities, what the city has as their tech debt. And that's our municipal codes, our standard details, our rules. et cetera, to make sure that they're brought up to date. From what I understand, um, a lot of these are can be decades old and they may not be up to date with the current sort of um latest design guidelines, like say DIB 94 for active infra infrastructure.
They may not be quite legal or compliant or enforceable. So taking that time and directing staff to prioritize fixing your tech debt. Um, so we don't see something like this happen. in the future. And this is something I'm actually dealing in my own job. Um this happens a lot in in technology um where we have to go back because we've not prioritized this. And it can cost us a lot in our products and in terms of often usability. um in a technical product just like it does in the city can suffer. And then the third thing is to, of course, with the next housing element, um, approach it in better faith and get it done on time. Thank you so much.
Thank you, Ms. Wilt um Webster. We appreciate your comments. Okay. So um that closes the public comment period.
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Agenda
6 items
1
What is the agenda and closed‑session announcement at the start of the meeting?
6:18–47:05
2
How does the public comment period begin and who speaks first?
47:05–2:06:21
3
Why are council members questioning the recent changes to neighborhood grant policies?
2:06:21–2:22:40
4
How does the council move from policy discussion to voting on the staff recommendation and related motions?
2:22:40–3:08:16
5
What concerns are raised about the ballot‑measure wording, especially the inclusion of parks?
3:08:16–4:00:55
6
How does the meeting conclude with final votes, motions, and adjournment?
4:00:55–4:15:42
Speakers
4 identifiedOfficials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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