Chris Clark

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Mountain View City Council · City Council on 2026-03-10 5:30 PM - REGULAR MEETING - Mar 10, 2026 · 10 Mar 2026 meeting

I'm gonna go ahead and move to approve the staff recommendation, including one, adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View approving a planned community permit.

and development review permit to construct an eight-story mixed-use building with 460 apartment units utilizing state density bonus law and approximately 9,371 square feet of ground floor retail, replacing an existing office building, a heritage tree removal permit to remove 29 heritage trees on a 2.86 acre site located at 490 East Middlefield Road.

APN 160-53-004, and finding the project to be statutorily exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act, CEQA pursuant to public resources code section 21080.66 to be read in title only, further reading waived, attachment one to the council report.

And two, introduce an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Mountain View approving a development agreement between the City of Mountain View and WTA Middlefield LLC

for an eight story mixed use building with 460 apartment units utilizing state density bonus law and approximately 9,371 square feet of ground floor commercial replacing an existing office building and the removal of 29 heritage trees on the 2.86 acre site located at 490 East Middlefield Road to be read in title only, further reading waived and set a second reading for March 24th, 2026.

Thank you, so that was a motion by Council Member Ramirez for the staff recommendation, seconded by Council Member Showalter.

Council Member Hicks, did you have further comments?

Yes.

As for voting, I think I'm going to flip a coin.

I don't know whether to vote to support the project or protest the loss of buffer from the trees.

But I don't want to do that before first.

I realize in asking those questions, I didn't say anything about the entire rest of the project.

And I'll flip my coin and if I end up voting no, I want you to know that I actually really like the project.

I think the architecture is generally very good.

I wish we were getting more of that, frankly, close to my house.

And I like sort of the display, the second floor public space.

I like the way you talk about it, getting people outside.

I like adding commercial to the area.

I think there is a deficit of parks in the area, but people also go out to cafes.

There's a deficit of

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