Boy, this is going to be a long one.
For starters, we have a 90-minute closed session regarding the Downtown, always fun, but I’m hoping for good news. We’ll see (not that I can tell you anything about the results, mind you).
Then we have the regular meeting. It starts with ceremonial stuff as Otto Lee returns and we say goodbye (for now) to Dean Chu. It’ll be nice to have Otto back, and I’m interested to see what serving with him will be like. Still, we’ll spend some time on the ceremonial stuff.
Then we have a consent calendar with no less than 14 items. Hopefully, they’ll all go through, but there is some substantial stuff on the consent calendar – approval of a $400k contract for outside consultants to help us with the Climate Action Plan, money for emergency preparedness planning, $1.8 million for downtown streetscape improvements, a couple of Sunnyvale Works! contracts, and so on.
Then we get into the regular business, with no less than eight items on the agenda.
First, we have approval of a taxicab franchise, which tends to be a pretty straightforward and simple issue one way or the other. Then we have an appeal of a Planning Commission denial of a residential fence, which seems small, but which will probably involve some discussion.
Next up is an issue which sounds boring but which is quite serious – a study issue regarding coordinating zoning with neighboring cities. We’ve had some real problems in past years with other cities promoting questionable projects that have a serious impact on Sunnyvale. Some we’ve gotten shot down, some went through anyway. While we work hard to be good neighbors, the same isn’t always true of our neighbors. So ways of reducing the conflicts that can arise when border developments are proposed will be a good thing to study. It’ll also be useful to hear from the public about their experiences with where the process failed them, or where it worked well (hint, hint).
Then we get into an important one. Staff is proposing creating a staff advisory committee for the LUTE/Climate Action Plan development, which is ongoing. You may recall that Staff held three LUTE outreach meetings regarding the LUTE update. After those meetings, Staff decided “we really need to do something more”, and they’re recommending creating this committee to get direct resident feedback on these issues.
The final three are probably simpler items. One is to adopt the Council’s work plan for the year. Second is to discuss pursuing participation in Google’s high speed bandwidth project. I’ve received a number of emails on that topic. Finally, we’ll be appointing up to three new commissioners, for one spot on the Health & Human Services Commission and for two spots on the Board of Building Code Appeals Commission.
Like I said, probably a long night. But an interesting one.