...Title
Senate Bill 79, Statewide Standards for Transit-Oriented Development Report and Implementation.
...Recommendations
(a) Accept the report on Senate Bill 79, including a summary of its provisions, initial San José specific analysis, and options for implementation.
(b) Direct staff to return to City Council in March 2026 with a draft ordinance designating qualifying industrial areas identified in the General Plan as Employment Areas as “industrial employment hubs” and exempting nonresidential sites within those areas from the provisions of Senate Bill 79.
(c) Direct staff to return to City Council with an ordinance exempting sites where there is no walking path less than one-mile from the location of transit-oriented development after further analysis of those sites is completed.
(d) Direct staff to return to City Council with an ordinance temporarily exempting designated historic resources contained in the San José Historic Resources Inventory.
(e) Through the upcoming budget process identify resources required to further analyze other temporary exemptions and a Transit-Oriented Development Alternative Plan.
CEQA: Not a Project, File No. PP17-007, Preliminary direction to staff and eventual action requires approval from decision-making body. (Planning, Building, and Code Enforcement)