TO: RULES AND OPEN FROM: Christopher Burton
GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
SUBJECT: Set General Plan Hearing First DATE: April 2, 2025 Review Cycle for May 6, 2025
Approved Date
4/3/25
RECOMMENDATION
Set the General Plan First Review Cycle of 2025 for City Council hearing beginning on the afternoon of May 6, 2025, to consider privately initiated and City-initiated General Plan amendments.
BACKGROUND
Consistent with state law, no mandatory element of the General Plan shall be amended more frequently than four times per calendar year. Policy IP-3.1 of the Envision San José 2040 General Plan allows staff to hold City-initiated General Plan amendments up to four times a year and limits City Council consideration of privately initiated General Plan amendment applications to one of those cycles.
The proposed May 6, 2025 hearing cycle would include the General Plan hearing on the City Council agenda. This General Plan hearing is to consider one privately initiated General Plan amendment for facilitating an affordable housing project, one City-initiated General Plan amendment on parcels owned by the Airport Department, and one Cityinitiated General Plan Text amendment to modify a General Plan policy related to urban village funding. The hearing will commence the first General Plan hearing cycle of the calendar year 2025.
RULES COMMITTEE: 4/9/25
ITEM: B.2
RULES AND OPEN GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
April 2, 2025
Subject: Set General Plan Hearing First Review Cycle for May 6, 2025
ANALYSIS
In the interest of bringing to City Council General Plan amendments, Planning, Building and Code Enforcement staff is requesting that the General Plan hearing commence on the afternoon of May 6, 2025.
The proposed General Plan hearing will allow the adoption of a privately initiated General Plan amendment, a City-initiated General Plan amendment and a City-initiated General Plan Text amendment.
COORDINATION
This memorandum was coordinated with the City Attorney’s Office. /s/
CHRISTOPHER BURTON,
Director, Planning, Building, and Code Enforcement
For questions, please contact Ruth Cueto, Principal Planner, Planning, Building, and Code Enforcement at [email protected] and 408-535-7886.