City Council on 2025-11-04 5:00 PM - JOINT SPECIAL MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL AND SHORELINE REGIONAL PARK COMMUNITY

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What items were discussed during the closed‑session announcement and property negotiation?

Unknown 1:37

Good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining us for closed session. Acting City Attorney Bakda will make a closed session announcement and then we welcome public comment on the item listed for closed session. The acting city attorney will now make an announcement.

Acting City Attorney Bakta 1:53

Thank you, Mayor. There is one item on this evening's closed session agenda. Item two point one is a conference with real property negotiators pursuant to government code five four nine five six point eight. The property under negotiation is Hope Street lots four and eight, assessor parcel numbers 158-20-069 and 158-20-004. There are no street addresses for these lots. The agency negotiators are Assistant City Manager Arne Andrews, Assistant City Manager Don Cameron, Community Development Director Christian Murdoch, Economic Vitality Manager Amanda Rotella, and Real Property Program. Program Administrator Angela La Monica. The negotiating party is Robert Green Company, and under negotiation are lease and price terms.

Unknown 2:38

Great, thank you. Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on the closed session item listed on tonight's agenda? Okay, I am not seeing anyone virtually or in person, so I will close public comment and the council will now recess to the plaza conference room for closed session and return to the council chambers at the close to continue to the regular session at six thirty.

Bobby Wieson Bear 3:07

Thank you.

Unknown 3:35

Welcome to the joint meeting of the Mountain View City Council and Shoreline Regional Park community of November fourth, twenty twenty five. Please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Unknown 4:06

The city clerk will take attendance by roll call. Councilmember Clark? Here. Councilmember Hicks? Here. Councilmember McAllister?

John McAlister 4:14

Yep.

Unknown 4:14

Councilmember Ramirez?

John McAlister 4:16

Here.

Unknown 4:17

Councilmember Show Walter. Vice Mayor Ramos? Here. Mayor Kamei? Here. Great, thanks. So we'll move on to item three, our closed session report. Acting City Attorney Bakta, do we have a closed session report?

Acting City Attorney Bakta 4:29

Thank you, Mayor. No final action was taken in closed session this evening.

Unknown 4:33

Thank you. So we'll move on to item four, our consent calendar. These items will be approved by one motion unless any member of the council wishes to pull an item for individual consideration. If an item is pulled from the consent calendar, it will be considered separately following approval of the balance of the consent calendar. If you'd like to speak on these items or the next item, oral communications on non-agenda items in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the City Clerk now. Would any member of the council like to pull an item? Councilmember McAllister.

John McAlister 5:04

Uh I was just gonna um register a no vote on one and I had a comment on four point five. The reason I'm voting no on number one because I've always been pushing for parking downtown. It's getting very congested in this project. It was a very large one and it's not providing enough parking for the area and therefore it's gonna put a burden on the n the present community and they're already fighting for spaces. And it's also gonna affect the business districts because that's another area for people to park, so I think that uh we need to get some we do need the affordable housing, but we don't want to put a burden and disminish the quality of life for others that are going in. On four point five, the comment is is this is the pedestrian bridge and this came about when I was on council before and uh

John McAlister 5:54

twenty seventeen, eighteen. And I've always been concerned about the cost that we have this bridge and we're putting bidirectional bike lanes on both sides of the road. And I'm going, why are we doing that? And at the time they said Um that was part of our program. And then I started seeing that uh coming back that every time that we there is a lot of um public input or there's some input from BPAC people and some others that we need to make everything dedicated bike lanes. And I said, Well where's the data to support putting all this money into bike lanes or improved? uh road conditions. And so I want to point out there's one of the questions I put into the staff report is how what's the data show how many people are using the uh shoreline bridge.