From: Bob Jackson
Subject: Concerns about PDC06-038
        
	Rodrigo, 
        
	I'd like you to read this e-mail thread relative to application
        number, PDC06-038. I'm very unhappy about the way that meeting dates
        have been changed, especially as the latest date coincides with a time
        that I have to be out of town. 
        
	At the meeting, I would have raised the following question. In the
        original "plan", the idea was to synchronize the development of housing
        and job availability in the area, so that the new residents would be
        close to their places of employment, and that they would walk to work
        rather than causing more traffic congestion by driving. Why has this
        idea disappeared so completely from consideration? North Park is a huge
        development, with the equivalent number of working residents to a small
        town - and there has been *_zero_* job creation in the area, so that
        they all drive to work - and traffic congestion has increased as a
        result. Now, the "planners" want to authorize even more high-density
        residential development in the area - 
        still without any local job creation. This is just plain wrong, and
        ought to be stopped, in spite of the fact that our new mayor appears to
        want to ride roughshod over the opinions of the neighborhood that he used to
        represent such a short time ago.
                              Bob Jackson.
And a response...

        Dear Mr. Jackson,
        
	Thank you for submitting comments for the proposed development of up to
        1,900 residential units at the old SONY headquarters site. I will forward
        them on to the Planning Commission for their consideration as part of review
        of this proposal.
        
	Regarding your comments below, please note that the jobs-housing link has
        not changed from what was presented to the community in 2004 in that the
        adopted Policy includes a Phasing Plan that limits the number of housing
        units to 8,000 for the entire NSJ Policy area until at least 7 million
        square feet of new industrial office / R&D space has been entitled.  Staff
        is monitoring the progress of new projects for consistency with this Phasing
        program and should the City Council decide to approve the requested rezoning
        for up to 1,900 new residential units, the total amount of residential units
        approved so far since the Policy was adopted would be approximately 2,600
        units, well below the 8,000 unit cap.
        
	Please feel free to contact me with any more questions or comments at the
        contact information below.
        
	Regards,
        
	Rodrigo Orduña, AICP
        City Planner II
        Planning Services Division
        
	tel (408) 535-7890
        fax (408) 292-6055
        rodrigo.orduna@sanjoseca.gov
        
	Department of Planning, Building, & Code Enforcement
        City of San José
        200 East Santa Clara Street, Third Floor
        San José, CA 95113-1905
        http://www.sanjoseca.gov/planning