Environmental Planning Commission on 2026-01-21 7:00 PM - Jan 21, 2026

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How does the Environmental Planning Commission open the January 21, 2026 meeting and explain hybrid meeting procedures?

Alex Nunez 0:00

7 p.m. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Environmental Planning Commission meeting of January 21st, 2026. We will call the meeting to order at 7 p.m. For those joining us in person, please note that due to our hybrid environment, audio and video presentations can no longer be shared from the lectern. Requests to show an audio or video presentation during a meeting should be directed to EPC at mountainview.gov by 4.30 p.m. on the meeting date. Additionally, due to our hybrid environment, We will no longer have speakers line up to speak on an item. Anyone wishing to address the EPC in person must complete a yellow speaker card. Please indicate the name that you would like to be called by when it is your turn to speak and the item number on which you wish to speak.

Alex Nunez 0:43

Please complete one yellow speaker card for each item on which you wish to speak and then turn them in to the EPC clerk as soon as possible, but no later than the call for public comment on the item. you are speaking on. Instructions for addressing the commission virtually may be found on the posted agenda. Now I will ask the APC clerk to proceed with roll call.

Community Development Director (Christian Murdock) 1:09

Commissioner Subramanian?

EPC Clerk / Meeting Clerk (Mr. Clerk) Unknown (first name not given) 1:11

Here.

Community Development Director (Christian Murdock) 1:12

Commissioner Pham?

EPC Clerk / Meeting Clerk (Mr. Clerk) Unknown (first name not given) 1:14

Here.

Community Development Director (Christian Murdock) 1:15

Commissioner Gutierrez? Commissioner Dempsey? Here. Commissioner Cranston? Here. Vice Chair Donahue. Here. And Chair Nunez. Here. All commissioners present with the exception of Commissioner Gutierrez.

Alex Nunez 1:36

Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Clerk. All right. Minutes approval. We will move on to item three. Minutes approval of 3.1. Environmental Planning Commission meeting minutes of December 3rd, 2025. If anyone in attendance would like to provide comments on the minutes, please fill out a yellow speaker card and provide it to the EPC clerk. If anyone on Zoom would like to provide a comment on the minutes, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press star nine on your phone. Phone users can mute and unmute themselves with star six. Mr. Clerk, are there any?

Senior Planner / Principal Planner (Jeffrey Tamura) [also referenced Diana Pencioli as Principal Planner] 2:12

We do not have any speakers online or requests in person.

Alex Nunez 2:18

Okay. Any discussion from commission? No. Any motion? Okay. It looks like we've got a motion to approve the environmental planning commission minutes of December 3rd, 2025 from commissioner vice chair Donahue seconded by commissioner Dempsey. Mr. Clerk, can we take the vote?

EPC Clerk / Meeting Clerk (Mr. Clerk) Unknown (first name not given) 2:52

The motion carries, four yes and two abstain.

Alex Nunez 2:55

All right, excellent. Then we will proceed to item number four, oral communications. This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the APC on any matter not on the agenda. Speakers are allowed to speak on any topic for up to three minutes during this section. State law prohibits the commission from acting on non-agenda items. If anyone in attendance would like to provide comments on on agenda items, please fill out a yellow speaker card and provide it to the EPC clerk. If anyone on Zoom would like to provide a comment on on agenda items, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press star nine on your phone. Phone users can mute and unmute themselves with star six. Mr. Clerk, any speakers submit yellow cards or on the Zoom list?

Senior Planner / Principal Planner (Jeffrey Tamura) [also referenced Diana Pencioli as Principal Planner] 3:39

None in person and none online.

Alex Nunez 3:42

All right. So looks like we have no takers. Then we will proceed to our public hearing for agenda item 5.1, the small business streamlining and other minor zoning code updates. We'll first hand it to staff for a presentation. Then we'll have questions from the EPC and followed by public comment. At the closure of public comment, the commission will then deliberate and then take action. Uh, so I think we can proceed with the staff presentation from, uh, our assistant planner, Madeline fall and assistant community, uh, assistant community development director, Lindsay Hagan.

Madeline Fall (Assistant Planner) 4:19

Thank you, and good evening, Chair Nunez and Commissioners. I'm Madeline Fall, Assistant Planner, and I'm joined by Assistant Community Development Director Lindsay Hagan to present proposed code amendments to City Code Chapter 36, known as the Zoning Code, related to streamlining permit procedures for certain small businesses and other minor code revisions and cleanups.