Ellen Kamei

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Mountain View City Council · City Council on 2025-12-16 6:30 PM - SPECIAL MEETING · 16 Dec 2025 meeting

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Thank you for the question.

Um I'll start first with talking about sort of what the tools are at the legislative action level that we're talking about, um, and maybe how that's distinguished from a project level action, right?

Of the examples you noted.

And then ask Principal Planner Pincioli to just talk about the care and the the thought that went into um selecting the zoning tools to ensure there are ongoing commercial operation opportunities with these rezonings.

So sites don't end up as non-conforming commercial uses that could restrict ongoing operation.

Um so to start, um

Uh it's it's challenging from a legislative zoning and general plan policy level, um, in light of state law to um achieve the kinds of

Um small business preservation outcomes that you're describing.

Typically that would require discouraging other uses, such as residential that might have different economics that lead to development of those uses in a way to protect the desired use, right?

In this case, the small business commercial opportunities.

Because of state law and the responsibilities the city has in the housing element, we're not able to discourage residential uses in this case.

uh to preserve commercial uses.

And so I think the sort of balance of the tools that are available is is challenging in that regard.

Um where the city may have additional opportunity to work with an applicant is on a specific project, which is not the stage we're at tonight, which tonight is a zoning and general plan action.

In the future there would be a project action where there's an actual developer with a project, impacts that are known and a timeline.

where the city has the opportunity to encourage the applicant to work with those businesses to minimize the impacts in that specific project level um situation.

And so um

Yeah.

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