Approve the Downtown Committee meeting minutes of December 2, 2025
TBD Project Managers: Sam Hughes and Eric Anderson
To approve the Environmental Planning Commission Meeting Minutes of October 1, 2025.
Approve minutes for the December 4, 2025, meeting.
Receive an oral update from the Know Your Rights Ad Hoc Committee. No action will be taken on this item.
Receive an oral update from the Civic Participation Ad Hoc Committee. No action will be taken on this item.
Receive a presentation on the Sustainability Division's community outreach efforts.
Approve the January 20, 2026 meeting minutes.
City Staff will provide updates on YAC Attack 2026, discuss workshops, and confirm attendance.
Committee Members will start planning activities and events for Teen Month planned for April 2026.
Committee Members will break out into their subcommittees to advance their work plan items. Each Subcommittee will provide an update on its current work plan.
MOTION - Nehrlich / Su (M/S) To approve the minutes from the December 8, 2025 Board of Library Trustees Special meeting as presented. Motion carried. Votes taken by roll call.
Review and discuss.
Board members reviewed and accepted Library Donations: $200 - Anonymous $1,000 - Rebecca Galiotto MOTION - Su / Ambastha (M/S) To accept donations made to the library. Motion carried. Votes taken by roll call.
Board members elected a new Chairperson. MOTION - Su / Nehrlich to elect Vice Chairperson Ambastha as Chairperson. Motion carried. Votes taken by roll call.
Board members elected a new Vice Chairperson. MOTION - Nehrlich / Su (M/S) to have agenda it . Motion carried. Votes taken by roll call.
Review and discuss.
The purpose of this Study Session was to receive Council input on potential approaches to addressing Senate Bill 79 and Assembly Bill 130. Community Development Director Christian Murdock presented the item. The following members of the public spoke: Robert Cox from Mountain View, on behalf of ___. Nancy Stuhr from Mountain View Lorraine Wormald from Mountain View Robert Swierk from Mountain View, on behalf of VTA Louise Katz from Mountain View, on behalf of Livable Mountain View. Jim Zaorski from Mountain View. Hala Alshahwany from Mountain View. (Virtual) Cliff Chambers from Mountain View. (Virtual) Leslie Friedman (Virtual) Maureen Blando (Virtual) Jerry Steach (Virtual) David Watson (Virtual) Jessica Chohan (Virtual) Matthew Marting By consensus, the Council indicated support for developing a Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) alternative plan based on Approach B, with an ordinance focused solely on excluding historic resources listed on the Mountain View Register of Historic Resources as of January 1, 2025, and on preparing SB 79 objective standards based on the R3 Zoning Update. The Council also indicated support for pursuing Approach C, a TOD alternative plan as allowed under SB 79, focused on Area H of the Downtown Precise Plan (Council to consider in the future whether to also include other TOD zones). A majority of the Council indicated support for deferring work on the Dark Sky Ordinance, Downtown Precise Plan Update, and Moffett Boulevard Precise Plan, until sensible and practicable to resume, based on staff’s assessment of how best to account for SB 79 in those precise plans, with work continuing on the R3 Zoning Update, Historic Preservation Ordinance Update, and Citywide Objective Design Standards work plan items. A majority of the Council indicated support for creating a ministerial approval process for projects subject to the AB 130 statutory exemption and directed staff to send courtesy notices to surrounding residents and, if possible, allow written public comment for such projects. At 7:47 p.m., the Study Session concluded.
MOTION - MS - Ramirez/ Showalter - To: Adopt an Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Mountain View Amending Chapter 36 (Zoning) of the City Code to Implement Subtask (g) of Housing Element Program 1.1, Including Updates to Article V (Commercial Zones) to Allow General Plan Mixed-Use Village Center Land Uses in the CO (Commercial-Office) Zoning District, and to Make Other Clarifying and Conforming Changes, Such as Modifying and Reorganizing Standards in Division 23 (General Plan Mixed-Use Village Center Developments) of Article IX (Standards For Specific Land Uses) to be Consistent with the CO Zoning District and the Evandale Precise Plan, and Requiring Avigation Easements Pursuant to the Moffett Federal Airfield Comprehensive Land Use Plan, as Recommended by the Environmental Planning Commission, to be read in title only, further reading waived (Attachment 1 to the Council report). (First reading: 6-1 (McAlister no))The motion carried by the following vote:
MOTION - MS - McAlister/ Showalter - To: 1. Approve the preferred plan for the Miramonte Avenue Complete Streets Study, Project 23-31, from El Camino Real to Castro Street/Marilyn Street (Segment A), as recommended by the Bicycle and Transportation Advisory Committee and Council Transportation Committee, and the final report for the Study (Attachment 1 to the Council Report). 2. Authorize the City Manager or designee to amend the professional services agreement with CSG Consultants, Inc., a California corporation (Entity No. 2249340), for Street Reconstruction (Miramonte Avenue), Project 25-28, to add $403,000 for additional services, for a total not-to-exceed amount of $550,000.The motion carried by the following vote:
Request for a Provisional Use Permit to allow a schools (specialized education and training) use for a tutoring school, "Steamoji" at an existing tenant space in a mixed-use commercial center ("The Village" at San Antonio Center) on a 5.51-acre site; and a recommended determination that the project is categorically exempt pursuant to Section 15301 ("Existing Facilities") of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines. This project is located at the southeast corner of San Antonio Road and Fayette Drive in the P(40) San Antonio Precise Plan Project Manager: Tristan White