The Building &
Construction
Trades Council
of San Mateo
County
1710 S. Amphlett Blvd.,
Suite 306 San Mateo CA,
94402
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Heat & Frost Insulators
No. 16
Boilermakers Local 549
Brick Tile & Allied
Craftworkers 3
DC16 Painters & Allied
Trades Local 913, 12, 718
IBEW Local 617
Elevator Constructors No.
8 Ironworkers Local 377
LiUNA Local 261, Local
67 Operating Engineers No. 3
Plasterers & Cement
Masons 300
UA Plumbers & Pipefitters
467
Roofers No. 40
SMART 104
Sign & Display 510
UA Sprinkler Fitters 483
Teamsters No. 853
UA Local 355
29 SEPTEMBER 2026
The City of Brisbane
City Council Special Meeting
50 Park Place
Brisbane, CA
Re: Baylands Specific Plan, Agenda Item B.
Dear Mayor Mackin and Members of the City Council,
On behalf of the Building & Construction Trades Council of San Mateo County, representing 20 local unions and 50 distinct trade classifications, I am writing to express our strong support for the proposed Brisbane Baylands Specific Plan, its associated General Plan and Zoning amendments, and related actions. Our council speaks for more than 13,000 highly skilled construction tradespeople who live and work in San Mateo County, including many who proudly call Brisbane home.
Following the Brisbane Planning Commission's unanimous 5-0 recommendation on August 13, 2026, to certify the Final EIR and adopt the 2026 staff-recommended Baylands Specific Plan, we urge the City Council to maintain this momentum. The Baylands project represents a transformative, generational opportunity to address regional housing needs, spur economic growth, and deliver vital infrastructure to the Peninsula.
We advocate for moving forward with the staff-recommended proposal based on several critical pillars:
● Skilled & Trained Workforce for Safe Remediation: The remediation of the Baylands site requires sophisticated environmental safeguards. Our affiliated tradespeople possess state approved apprenticeship training, hazardous-materials certifications, and a culture of strict job-site safety.
Utilizing a skilled, local workforce ensures that site clean-up and soil relocation are executed properly, protecting both the workers on-site and the long-term health of the Brisbane community.
● Local Career & Housing Opportunities: The multi-phase development will generate thousands of high-quality construction jobs across civil infrastructure, site grading, utility installation, and vertical construction.
Crucially, the plan allows local craftsmen and women to build a stable career close to home without sacrificing time with their families, while creating up to 2,200 new housing units that offer tradespeople a pathway to live in the communities they help build.
● Comprehensive Community & Infrastructure Benefits: Beyond housing and commercial development, Phase I delivers foundational public benefits, including the Bayshore Mobility Plan improvements, regional transit access, multi-use trails, dedicated park spaces, solar energy generation, and sustainable water recycling infrastructure.
The staff proposal reflects years of rigorous environmental analysis, public engagement, and thorough planning. We respectfully request that the City Council vote to approve the staff recommendations, certify the Final EIR, and advance the Baylands Specific Plan.
Sincerely,
Bart M. Pantoja
Business Manager | Secretary-Treasurer
P: 650.358.9977
[email protected]
Petition to Remove Unnecessary Pedestrian Safety Flags
To: City of Brisbane Public Works Department
Re: Visitation Avenue Pedestrian Safety Flags
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From: Virda Paula Mah <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2026 10:31 AM
To: Council Members <[email protected]>
Subject: WARN notification
Honorable Mayor of Brisbane
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VP Administration
LeeMAH Electronics
155 South Hill Drive
Brisbane, CA 94005
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From: Maxwell Schaumkel <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2026 4:31 PM
To: Padilla, Ingrid <[email protected]>; Padilla, Ingrid <[email protected]> Subject: Please do not Adopt the Data Center Moratorium Dear Mayor Coleen Mackin and members of the Brisbane City Council, This letter is public comment on agenda item “P” under new business for the October 1st 2026, City of Brisbane Council Meeting, which is to Consider Adoption of an Urgency Ordinance Establishing a Temporary Moratorium on Data Center Development.
On behalf of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 617, I respectfully urge you not to adopt this urgency ordinance. We ask that you instead direct staff to develop clear, enforceable data center regulations. Regulations can ensure that any project built in Brisbane protects ratepayers, strengthens the grid, and creates careers for local workers.
AN URGENCY ORDINANCE IS THE WRONG TOOL
State law explicitly grants cities the authority to adopt interim urgency ordinances for real emergencies. Adoption requires a four-fifths vote and a finding that there is a current and immediate threat to public health, safety, or welfare. No data center proposal in Brisbane presents that kind of threat. The consequences of adopting one are also significant. An urgency moratorium can be extended, which freezes investment and work in the city well beyond the "temporary" pause its title suggests.
A blanket moratorium rejects everything. It tells investors, employers, and the Building Trades that Brisbane is closed for business, and it sends the work and the tax revenue to neighboring cities that already host these facilities.
If the Council does consider any action, we urge caution about how broadly it defines "data center development." Language that sweeps in substations, grid upgrades, or electrical facilities serving the wider community could delay the reliability improvements Brisbane residents need.
Instead of a moratorium, we ask the Council to build the following principles into permanent regulations.
1.Protect local resources.
We support enforceable standards on water use, noise, air quality. We also fully support the responsible handling of the cooling systems and their recirculation, top-off and mineral buildup removal from data centers. Standards like these address residents' concerns directly without shutting the door on investment.
2. AI should be regulated.
The IBEW has always been pro-technology, and pro-progress, so long as workers are protected. Just as essential electrical services and infrastructure are regulated, lawmakers should enact guardrails on essential digital and computational technology and the infrastructure that supports them.
3. The workforce that builds AI is already here.
IBEW members build, maintain, and operate data centers. They also build, maintain, and operate the generation, transmission, and distribution systems that power those data centers. Our members are trained to deliver this infrastructure safely and with minimal disruption to the surrounding community, from switchgear to transformers to substations.
A moratorium does not pause technology. It pauses the paychecks of people who live here.
4. Power them with an all-of-the-above, grid-connected approach.
After decades of flat growth, electricity demand is rising sharply. Data centers should be powered by technology-agnostic, grid-connected generation. That way, the investment they bring helps modernize an aging grid rather than bypassing it.
5. Data centers must pay their fair share, so residents don't.
Brisbane residents should never subsidize a data center's electric bill. Other states have adopted dedicated tariffs, separate rate classes, and other pricing structures that assign costs to the customers who cause them. Owners should also be required to invest in the grid upgrades needed to serve their load. Those upgrades improve reliability and affordability for every ratepayer in the community. Under the right rules, a data center strengthens the local grid instead of straining it.
6. Build and operate them with high-road union labor.
Data centers are complex, energy-intensive facilities, and mistakes in them are costly and dangerous. The following requirements ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget, without the rework, outages, and injuries that come from cutting corners:
- prevailing wages
- project labor agreements
- apprenticeship utilization
- strong safety standards
The standards Brisbane sets now will shape this industry for decades. They will either create a stable pipeline of middle-class careers or allow a race to the bottom on wages and safety.
7. Apply the same rules to everyone who generates power.
Any company that brings its own generation to a site must meet the same regulatory, permitting, siting, and legal standards as existing power providers. Energy is too critical to reliability and affordability to allow a two-tier system.
8. Deliver shared prosperity for the host community.
Any public incentive should be tied to three things:
- local hiring
- investment in pre-apprenticeship and union apprenticeship programs - lasting economic value for Brisbane
These conditions give young people here a path into careers that pay a family wage without requiring a four-year degree.
9. Strengthen American jobs up and down the supply chain.
This buildout can drive domestic manufacturing of transformers, switchgear, and the other equipment and materials that data centers and the grid depend on. Well-planned local projects support good union jobs far beyond city limits.
Brisbane has an opportunity to show the region how to do this right. The way to do that is thoughtful regulation that puts residents and workers first, not an urgency moratorium. We respectfully ask the Council to decline to adopt the proposed ordinance and to direct staff to return with regulatory options instead. IBEW Local 617 would welcome the chance to work with City staff and the Council on that effort.
I sincerely thank you for your consideration and your service to the beautiful city of Brisbane.
Respectfully,
Max Schaumkel
Business Representative
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Local Union 617
P:650.574.4239 ext.11
F:650.574.1408
1701 Leslie Street
San Mateo, California 94402
www.ibew617.com
From: Olivia Kureshi <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2026 2:47 PM
To: Council Members <[email protected]>
Subject: Vote to Pass Data Center Moratorium
Dear Council Members of Brisbane,
My name is Olivia Kureshi and I am a resident of the neighboring community Visitacion Valley. I am writing to you today to express my concern about the development of data centers, specifically in and around San Bruno Mountain. .
As a longtime resident of Vis Valley, I have always treasured San Bruno Mountain as it is a critical habitat for several federally endangered butterfly species and plants. The proposed use of the land, which includes an advanced manufacturing facility, would threaten local water resources, cause excessive noise pollution, hike residential electricity rates, and offer minimal long-term jobs.
Residents do not have full disclosure of how the site will be used. The developers Orchard Partners describe these possible uses: Data Center, Light Fabrication, Manufacturing, Assembling, Processing, Ancillary Warehouse Storage.
Given the significant environmental, community, and transparency concerns surrounding this project, I respectfully urge you to vote to pass the data center moratorium. Our community deserves a voice in decisions that will have lasting impacts on San Bruno Mountain and the surrounding neighborhoods.
Thank you,
Olivia
From: Tony Press <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2026 11:28 AM
To: Council Members <[email protected]>
Subject: Data Center Moratorium
Please know I wholeheartedly support the proposed Moratorium on Data Centers. Thank you for your efforts.
Tony Press
64 Sierra Point Road
From: Sushruth Sastry <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2026 2:12 AM
To: Padilla, Ingrid <[email protected]>
Subject: Written Public Comment for Item P - October 1, 2026 City Council Meeting City Council,
Item P about the temporary moratorium on data center development needs your immediate approval.
Across the region, heavy energy-use data center operators push for fast-tracked approvals while hiding behind closed doors and opaque agreements. Municipalities have every right and an absolute duty to slam the brakes on these projects until grid capacity, water consumption, noise impacts, and true community costs are fully accounted for. Data centers consume vast amounts of municipal resources while delivering negligible local employment compared to the strain they place on infrastructure.
Pass the temporary moratorium on data center development without delay. Stop letting speculative infrastructure bypass public scrutiny.
Sushruth Sastry
Milpitas, CA
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Date: September 19, 2026 at 2:28:41 PM PDT
To: "Garcia, Mario" <[email protected]>, "Macias, Lisa" <[email protected]>, "Perez-Recoder, Giovanni" <[email protected]>, "Cheung, Caroline" <[email protected]>
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Request / Comment Dear City of Brisbane,
There has been a lot of discussion about major
projects in Brisbane, but residents are not seeing
enough progress or clear results. I would like to ask the City to include regular updates in its weekly newsletter regarding the Bank of America building and the
Baylands project.
For the Bank of America building, residents would
appreciate clear information about what is causing the
delays, what steps are currently being taken, and who
is responsible for moving the project forward. Is there a timeline for completion, and what accountability
measures are in place?
The Baylands project is also important to the future of Brisbane. A project of this scale should have clearly
defined start and completion dates, measurable
milestones, and regular public reporting. If the project is expected to generate revenue for the City, residents should be able to see how that revenue is expected to
benefit Brisbane through infrastructure, services, and
other community improvements.
I also believe the City should publish an annual report showing what has been accomplished on major
projects, what remains outstanding, the reasons for
significant delays, and how taxpayer dollars are being
spent. Meetings and discussions are important, but
residents need to see tangible results and
accountability rather than an ongoing cycle of
meetings without clear outcomes.
Brisbane needs economic activity, good jobs, quality
schools, attractive shops and restaurants, and
infrastructure that supports a thriving community.
Residents want to see Brisbane move forward and
remain a prosperous and vibrant town.
If the City has more property-tax revenue than it needs to provide services and make necessary investments,
residents should also understand how those funds are
being used and whether there are opportunities to
return excess funds to taxpayers.
Please consider making regular, detailed updates on
these major projects part of the City's weekly
newsletter so residents can follow the progress,
timelines, expenditures, and results.
Thank you for listening to the concerns of Brisbane
residents and for providing greater transparency and
accountability.
Sincerely,
A Brisbane Resident
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From: Carmina Mendoza <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2026 10:26 AM
To: Council Members <[email protected]>
Subject: Invitation to Age Up's 25th Anniversary Event
Dear Council Members of the City of Brisbane,
As the Chief of Staff at AgeUp, I'm writing to invite you to celebrate a special milestone with us.
This year marks our 25th anniversary. For a quarter-century, we've protected the rights of residents in long-term care facilities across San Mateo County — investigating complaints, resolving disputes, and making sure people are heard. Last year alone, we reached nearly 10,000 residents through that work. Alongside it, we've built programs that tackle isolation head-on: Kindness Crew brings music, activities, and conversation into the residences, and Friendly Visitors and Phone Buddies connect isolated older adults with real relationships.
We even launched Camp AgeUp to get people to try new things like beekeeping, surfing and pickle making — because turning 50, 60, or 90 doesn't mean you should stop exploring.
Brisbane has always been a partner in this work, and we'd love to have you there for the occasion.
Event: 25th Anniversary Celebration
Date: Wednesday, October 8th
Time: 4:00-6:00 pm
Location: Veterans Memorial Building Senior Center
1455 Madison Ave, Redwood City, CA 94061
Please reply to this email and let me know who from your team will be joining us! We hope you and members of your staff will be able to attend. Please let us know if you have any questions or would like additional information about our work.
Warm regards,
Dr. Carmina Mendoza
Carmina Mendoza, PhD | Chief of Staff
AgeUp, Inc
1333 Madison Ave.
Redwood City, CA 94061
650-780-5707 (Phone)
650-364-5399 (Fax)