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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2014-10-15 City Council Agenda PacketCITY OF PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL October 15, 2014 Special Meeting Council Conference Room 6:00 PM Agenda posted according to PAMC Section 2.04.070. Supporting materials are available in the Council Chambers on the Thursday preceding the meeting. 1 October 15, 2014 MATERIALS RELATED TO AN ITEM ON THIS AGENDA SUBMITTED TO THE CITY COUNCIL AFTER DISTRIBUTION OF THE AGENDA PACKET ARE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION IN THE CITY CLERK’S OFFICE AT PALO ALTO CITY HALL, 250 HAMILTON AVE. DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS. PUBLIC COMMENT Members of the public may speak to agendized items; up to three minutes per speaker, to be determined by the presiding officer. If you wish to address the Council on any issue that is on this agenda, please complete a speaker request card located on the table at the entrance to the Council Chambers, and deliver it to the City Clerk prior to discussion of the item. 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Special Orders of the Day 1.Interviews of Candidates for Architectural Review Board, the Historic Resources Board, and One Candidate for the Planning and Transportation Commission Adjournment AMERICANS WITH DISABILITY ACT (ADA) Persons with disabilities who require auxiliary aids or services in using City facilities, services or programs or who would like information on the City’s compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, may contact (650) 329-2550 (Voice) 24 hours in advance. 2 October 15, 2014 MATERIALS RELATED TO AN ITEM ON THIS AGENDA SUBMITTED TO THE CITY COUNCIL AFTER DISTRIBUTION OF THE AGENDA PACKET ARE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION IN THE CITY CLERK’S OFFICE AT PALO ALTO CITY HALL, 250 HAMILTON AVE. DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS. Additional Information Council and Standing Committee Meetings Council Meeting Cancellation October 13, 2014 Policy and Services Committee October 14, 2014 City School Committee October 16, 2014 Schedule of Meetings Schedule of Meetings Tentative Agenda Tentative Agenda Public Letters to Council SET 1 SET 2 Early Packet Release Palo Alto Grade Separation and Trenching Study CITY OF PALO ALTO OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK October 15, 2014 The Honorable City Council Palo Alto, California Interviews of Candidates for Architectural Review Board and the Historic Resources Board and One Candidate for the Planning and Transportation Commission On Monday, October 6, 2014 City Council selected the following applicants to interview for the Architectural Review Board and the Historic Resources Board. Portions of the Palo Alto Municipal Code describing requirements for serving on each body are included for reference. Architectural Review Board 2.21.010 Architectural review board. There is created an Architectural Review Board consisting of five persons appointed by the City Council, and at least three of whom shall be architects, landscape architects, building designers or other design professionals. The Architectural Review Board shall have the powers and duties specified in this chapter, and shall comply with the procedures specified in this chapter. (Ord. 5208 § 9, 2013: Ord. 4826 § 2 (Exh. 1 (part)), 2004) There are two open terms ending October 31, 2017 on the Architectural Review Board. The nine Architectural Review Board applicants to be interviewed are as follows: 10 minute interviews Kenneth Huo 6:00 p.m. Qiming Huang 6:10 p.m. Matthew Harris 6:20 p.m. Richard Schoelerman 6:30 p.m. Flore Schmidt 6:40 p.m. Daniel Pho 6:50 p.m. Catherine Ballantyne 7:00 p.m. Mark Weiss 7:10 p.m. Kyu Young Kim 7:20 p.m. Page 2 Historic Resources Board 2.27.010 Historic Resources Board. The Historic Resources Board shall be composed of seven members appointed by the city council and serving without pay. Members shall have demonstrated interest in and knowledge of history, architecture or historic preservation. One member shall be an owner/occupant of a category 1 or 2 historic structure, or of a structure in a historic district; three members shall be architects, landscape architects, building designers or other design professionals and at least one member shall possess academic education or practical experience in history or a related field. The Palo Alto Historic Association shall be given notice of vacancies on the board and shall be encouraged to have its members submit applications. (Ord. 5208 § 20, 2013) There are four open terms ending October 31, 2017 on the Historic Resources Board. The 5 Historic Resources Board applicants to be interviewed are as follows: 10 minute interviews Iqbal Serang 7:40 p.m. Martin Bernstein 7:50 p.m. Michael Makinen 8:00 p.m. Margaret Wimmer 8:10 p.m. Roger Kohler 8:20 p.m. The following applicant is not able to attend interviews scheduled on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 for the Planning and Transportation Commission, so we are scheduling him along with the above interviews. Planning and Transportation Commission 2.20.010 Membership. There is created a planning and transportation commission composed of seven members who are not council members, officers or employees of the city, who are residents of the city, and who shall be appointed by the city council. (Ord. 4606 § 1 (part), 1999) There are two open terms ending October 31, 2018 on the Planning and Transportation Commission. The 1* Planning and Transportation Commission applicant to be Page 3 interviewed are as follows: 15 minute interview C James Schmidt 8:30 p.m. *Additional interviews for these terms on the Planning and Transportation Commission are scheduled for Wednesday, October 22, 2014. Copies of all applications are attached. Some applications may be redacted at the request of the applicant. A full set of non-redacted applications will be emailed to Council Members directly. The City Council is scheduled to vote to appoint candidates for the Architectural Review Board and the Historic Resources Board on Monday, October 20, 2014. The City Council is scheduled to vote to appoint candidates for the Planning and Transportation Commission on Monday, October 27, 2014. ATTACHMENTS:  Huo, Kenneth ARB (PDF)  Huang, Qiming ARB (PDF)  Harris, Matthew ARB (PDF)  Schoelerman, Richard ARB (PDF)  Schmidt, Flore ARB (PDF)  Pho, Daniel ARB (PDF)  Ballantyne, Catherine ARB (PDF)  Weiss, M ARB (PDF)  Kim, Kyu Young ARB (PDF)  Serang, Iqbal HRB (PDF)  Bernstein, Martin HRB (PDF)  Makinen, Michael HRB (PDF)  Wimmer, Margaret HRB (PDF)  Kohler, Roger HRB (PDF)  Schmidt, C James PTC (PDF) Department Head: Donna Grider, City Clerk Page 4 @ITY ©f PALO 11.ue. CA (tt[f '( 0LERK'S OFPIS.E It. SEP 22 AH llJ 15 C l fY OF PALO ALTO Application to Serve on the Architectural Review Board Palo Alto welcomes volunteers and we appreciate that you are taking the time to apply. Completion of this application provides valuable information to the City Council. Please complete the application to the best of your abilities. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the City Clerk's Office. Authority of Board: The Architectural Review Board is charged with design review of some new construction, as well as changes and additions to commercial, industrial and multiple- family projects. The Board is responsible for: • Promoting orderly and harmonious development of the City, • Enhancing the desirability of residence or investment in the City, • Encouraging the attainment of the most desirable use of land and improvements, • Enhancing the desirability of living conditions upon the immediate site or in adjacent areas, • Promoting visual environments which are of high aesthetic quality and variety and which, at the same time, are considerate of each other. Please see Palo Alto Municipal Code Sections 2.16 and 2.21 , as well as Titles 16 and 18 for more detailed information. The Architectural Review Board is composed of five members who are not Council Members, officers, or employees of the City, at least three of whom shall be architects, landscape architects, building designers or other design professionals. Palo Alto residency is not required. Terms of Members will be for three years. The Architectural Review Board typically meets on the first and third Thursdays of each month at 8:30 am. In addition to regular meetings, Members may be asked to participate on at least one sub-committee which could hold additional meetings. Click here to receive email notifications of vacancies CLICK HERE. You are also welcome to contact the City Clerk's Office at 329-2571 or David.Camahan@cityofpaloalto.org. Personal Information Name: Address: Do you have any relatives or members of your household who are employed by the City of Palo Alto, who are currently serving on the City Council, or who are Commissioners or Board Members?_ Yes»o Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for?~ Yes_ No California state law requires appointed board and commission members to file a detailed disclosure of their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest, Form 700. Do you have an investment in, or do you serve as an officer or director of, a company doing business in Palo Alto which you believe Is likely to; 1) engage in business with the City, 2) provide products or services for City projects, or 3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for?_ Ye;< No Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property in Palo Alt~Yes _No How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Architectural Review Board? ,X-community Group __ ·-~Email from.City Clerk _ Palo Alto Weekly _Daily Post _ City Website _Flyer Other: _____________________________ _ List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional registration: I ttt} ~ C-1'-l-1r~~1t>--l/i U~,?G-P P--~ rTftC::1 -~~ -re~-~ .. rf~'-" ~Gt~M 1..-1~!71f~f~Ht16c-"T ,, ~11,,---~~~/~>t!.-FG~t-~"(-tv1~1i;~ C?f~ 1.1JML11!£ cl LJR~ ft,,Ai'Jf\J'Gj ,, () lJ _ c:>"'f 1\111vH1~.PN/~N A~~-f../lA~ .~ P.. .J..H. 4 t.Jf{~l'J p~hl~ b . 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Please identify a project or projects that you find o be examples of good architecture, an explain why. You may attach samples, identify project addresses, or provide links. If you attach ·-samples·,-staffmay-requesrtllaryou bring hard copy prlrit outs to tile Interviews.--· -· -~"c.p P.-te..t-1-i tr~ui<:6 cJ?V'fJ~?:? 1--.lrt~~ of~N e?? /56N7~ 1 7~ t?j f..I H J''f"' WG"t.-v&> MIN U:f t1 l17fLJ ~ I~ iJ 1---e 7 4H ~ P6~~s ?J f tU~tu-t?l 1k '91'-IP-I/ 0·1'rfP'17I1it?N~ &f pP rJ t> ~vH Ii f;Vfilf'4t: -r~l'67 r~~ t>'I e--o&iWl~vv r~~A., L-'(1"'10"1 f~~~/.6--NP N t~ % , tAN~D ·tl£ 71H~--oL.I 1HG c-11 ui~v Rl~f~. 5. Architectural Review Board M bers work with th documents listed below. If you have experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with these documents is not required for selection. ~lo Alto Comprehensive Plan LINK ~K--- Vzoning Code LINK ~ V )I Camino Real Design Guidelines LINK · ~ VEI Camino Real Master Plan Study LINK and Appendices LINK ~ ~a Plans such as the South of Forest Avenue (SOFA) I and II Plans LINK vCalifomla Environmental Quality Act LINK if~ ~mi! Streamline Act LINK 4L-- Density Bonus Law LINK ~ Secretary of the Interior's Standards LINK p~vc ~t? ~~ f~"fJ~7 P-C--clv1Ma.INJ:'( v-.J117&. o/rl~ ~-f ''~'11f"""'V/"f-l"f :'Giit·W~~~ ~~~ 1 ll'1N'0 V~t'f'W / -·· Page2 V' . I ~ Architectural Review Board t?~--~---l·'t Consent to Publish Personal Information on the City of Palo Alto Website California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, "No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first obtaining the written permission of that indivldual." The full code is attached. This consent form will not be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City's website. The full code can be read here: LINK Read the code, and check only ONE option below: I give permission for the City of Palo Alto to post to the City's website the attached Board and Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alto City Clerk. OR I request that the City of Palo Alto redact my home address, phone numbers, and email address from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City's website. I am providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact information instead. Address: Cell Phone: & i?t? .... ti' ~ 5-·-bt? 1 g Home I Office Phbne: E-inail: r ~ ;s..i...'fo P.j'l.t.ti 11"'167 Gt Mt>f 1.--, u-11 Signature /~ ·---· ~hl'-N -l?f rt Hi.Jo Date:~1 r . . . -· - /~ Architectural Review Board 01 ,-z..o _.rt Architectural Review Board Application . Personal Information Name: Qiming Huang Address: @111'Y 0f. PALO ALT.&. 0A ~f'f Y €LERK'S OFP.1Ue-';, i~SEP 16 PH -6:25 Answers to narrative questions in full sized text attached to application Do you have any relatives or members of your household who are employed by the City o!-ealo AJt?., who are currently serving on the City Council, or who are Commissioners or Board Members? UYes(.!,l No Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for?@YesO No California state law requires appointed boar~ and commission members to file a detailed disclosure of their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest (Form 700). Do you have an investment in, or do you serve as an officer or director of, a company doing business in Palo Alto which you believe is likely to: 1 ) engage in business with the City; 2) provide products or services for City projects; or 3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? Oves@No Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property In Palo Alto?()ves@No How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Architectural R_evlew Board? Ocommunity Group· [2]Email from City Clerk 0Palo Alto Weekly Doail~Post Deity Website 0 Flyer Other: _______________________________ _ List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional registration: · I got my master deg<ee in Computer Science from University of TeKas at Austin. I have been working in high·lech companies for years, including Oracle and Cisco, as senior principal software product manager. I also volunteered In a non-profit organization, Sllcon Va•ey Wireless Technology Association, as a boardd director. · Recently, t buita few houses in Palo Alto. Through the building process, I read a big portion of the Palo Alto Municipal Code and learnt quit a lot of buUding knowledge. Now. I am helping my friends buading new houses or doing major remodels, providing them da&ign end malarial selection advice. I am also reading the Caifomia State License Board recommended documenls for building professionals. I may take some of the examines for varied state professional licenses. Employment Present or Last Employer: Asquare Occupation: Software Product Management Describe your involvement in community activities, volunteer and civic organizations: Besides my volunteer work for Silicon Valley Wireless Technology Association, I also volunteer for Silicon Valley Youth, which is an organization to encourage students to explore in science, technology, engineering and math. I organized a few visits of students to local IBM and Google offices. I am helping Terman Middle School Game Club to invite game industry experts to share game design, creation, operation and marketing knowledge with the Terman students. I have been helping a few Palo Alto City Council candidates reaching out to the votes and collecting votes' feedbacks and suggestions. Page 1 Architectural Review Board 1.What is it about the Architectural Review Board that is compatible with your experience and of specific interest to you, and why? 2.Please describe an issue that recently came before the Board that is of particular interest to you and describe why you are interested in it. If you have never been to a Board meeting you can view an archive here: LINK. 3.If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Architectural Review Board achieve, and why? How would you suggest accomplishing this? 4.Please identify a project or projects that you find to be examples of good architecture, and explain why. You may attach samples, identify project addresses, or provide links. If you attach samples, Vtaff may request that you bring hard copy print outs to the interviews. 5.Architectural Review Board Members work with the documents listed below. If you have experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with these documents is not required for selection. Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan LINK Zoning Code LINK El Camino Real Design Guidelines LINK El Camino Real Master Plan Study LINK and Appendices LINK Area Plans such as the South of Forest Avenue (SOFA) I and II Plans LINK California Environmental Quality Act LINK Permit Streamline Act LINK Density Bonus Law LINK Secretary of the Interior’s Standards LINK Page 2 Architectural Review Board I am very interested in the design review and would like to share my opinions based on my building experience from a resident point of view. I found myself enjoying architectural design and interior design. I usually drive by Palo Alto streets and pay a lot of attention to the house style, color, material, height, and landscape in different neighborhoods. I like the design harmony and consistency on a street. I also think new residential house should be comfortable, elegant and built with latest materials and technology. I am a first-generation immigrant from Asia. I will bring culture diversity to the ARB, representing a large resident base working in high-tech industry with children going to local public school. I remember there was a case about the 'Grocery Outlet' signage on Alma street. It passed the ARB review, but a local resident organization brought up the issue to the city council. It is an issue about special case vs the common practice. Normally, a projecting sign should not exceed 12 feet. However, for a fast-driving street like Alma, people normally do not catch the signs along the sides. I never know there was a grocery store in the same location even though I drove by the location for hundreds of times. It makes sense that this case is considered in the special context and approved by the ARB. Here are some approaches that the ARB may try. 1. Offer tangible suggestions and guidance to the architects and property owners to meet the design requirements. Pointing out the problems is just the first step. With the ARB board members' experience through many building reviews, the ARB board may have a good solution for both the property owner and the neighborhood. For most of the issues found during the review, ARB may try to provide a potential solution. 2. Give certain flexibility for the architects and property owners to design the property. At the end of the day, the property will be occupied by the property owner. They have their special needs and preferences for their homes or commercial buildings. Those preference make each house/building unique and add a lot of personality to the neighborhood, especially in Palo Alto, the innovation center of the world. If the designs do not violate the city's codes and regulations, ARB may want to leave the final decision at the owner's discretion. 3. Review the design based on the code and regulations. Enforce strictly the zoning and building codes on all the designs. Provide feedback based on the city's municipal codes. This results in consistent execution on review process and fair judgement across all the projects. Give less consideration to other subjective opinions, which can be varied greatly from one person to another. 4197 Baker Avenue, Palo Alto, CA The home is a typical spanish style house. The design is clean and neat. The window is traditional spanish window, without unnecessary trims. The windows are quality wood clad ones with chestnut brown frame. All the doors have consistent spanish look with old-world-styled clavos and speak easy, in dark walnut color, matching the window frame color and making great contrast to the bright wall color. The bright ivory wall really light up the house and bring the spanish style out. The wall color goes very well with the dark red clay tiles on the roof. The balcony, covered porch, and the chimney all add layers to the design, avoiding flat and plain. The details, like the exterior lights, deco gable vents, and the deco tiles on the chimney bring elegant finishing to the house. The fence of black railing and short stucco wall create the sense of coherence and completeness. This is one of the references with aesthetic architecture and quality construction. I read some sections of the Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan when I purchased my home in Palo Alto. I read the majority of Zoning Code when I built my new houses. I read California Environment Quality Act and Density Bonus Law when I did research on Maybell Project last year. Consent to Publish Personal Information on the City of Palo Alto Website California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, “No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first obtaining the written permission of that individual.” The full code is attached. This consent form will not be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City’s website. The full code can be read here: LINK Read the code, and check only ONE option below: I give permission for the City of Palo Alto to post to the City’s website the attached Board and Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alto City Clerk. OR I request that the City of Palo Alto redact my home address, phone numbers, and email address from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City’s website. I am providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact information instead. Address: Cell Phone: Home / Office Phone: E-mail: Signature: ________________________________________________________ Date: _____________ Page 3 Architectural Review Board 3790 El Camino Real, #300, Palo Alto, CA 94306 408 667 8769 Qiming.Huang@gmail.com Architectural Review Board Application – Qiming Huang List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional registration: I got my master degree in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin. I have been working in high-tech companies for years, including Oracle and Cisco, as senior principal software product manager. I also volunteered in a non-profit organization, Silicon Valley Wireless Technology Association, as a board director. Recently, I built a few houses in Palo Alto. Through the building process, I read a big portion of the Palo Alto Municipal Code and learnt quit a lot of building knowledge. Now, I am helping my friends building new houses or doing major remodels, providing them design and material selection advice. I am also reading the California State License Board recommended documents for building professionals. I may take some of the examines for varied state professional licenses. Describe your involvement in community activities, volunteer and civic organizations: Besides my volunteer work for Silicon Valley Wireless Technology Association, I also volunteer for Silicon Valley Youth, which is an organization to encourage students to explore in science, technology, engineering and math. I organized a few visits of students to local IBM and Google offices. I am helping Terman Middle School Game Club to invite game industry experts to share game design, creation, operation and marketing knowledge with the Terman students. I have been helping a few Palo Alto City Council candidates reaching out to the votes and collecting votes' feedbacks and suggestions. 1. What is it about the Architectural Review Board that is compatible with your experience and of specific interest to you, and why? I am very interested in the design review and would like to share my opinions based on my building experience from a resident point of view. I found myself enjoying architectural design and interior design. I usually drive by Palo Alto streets and pay a lot of attention to the house style, color, material, height, and landscape in different neighborhoods. I like the design harmony and consistency on a street. I also think new residential house should be comfortable, elegant and built with latest materials and technology. I am a first-generation immigrant from Asia. I will bring culture diversity to the ARB, representing a large resident base working in high-tech industry with children going to local public school. 2. Please describe an issue that recently came before the Board that is of particular interest to you and describe why you are interested in it. If you have never been to a Board meeting you can view an archive here: I remember there was a case about the 'Grocery Outlet' signage on Alma street. It passed the ARB review, but a local resident organization brought up the issue to the city council. It is an issue about special case vs the common practice. Normally, a projecting sign should not exceed 12 feet. However, for a fast-driving street like Alma, people normally do not catch the signs along the sides. I never know there was a grocery store in the same location even though I drove by the location for hundreds of times. It makes sense that this case is considered in the special context and approved by the ARB. 3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Architectural Review Board achieve, and why? How would you suggest accomplishing this? Here are some approaches that the ARB may try. 1. Offer tangible suggestions and guidance to the architects and property owners to meet the design requirements. Pointing out the problems is just the first step. With the ARB board members' experience through many building reviews, the ARB board may have a good solution for both the property owner and the neighborhood. For most of the issues found during the review, ARB may try to provide a potential solution. 2. Give certain flexibility for the architects and property owners to design the property. At the end of the day, the property will be occupied by the property owner. They have their special needs and preferences for their homes or commercial buildings. Those preference make each house/building unique and add a lot of personality to the neighborhood, especially in Palo Alto, the innovation center of the world. If the designs do not violate the city's codes and regulations, ARB may want to leave the final decision at the owner's discretion. 3. Review the design based on the code and regulations. Enforce strictly the zoning and building codes on all the designs. Provide feedback based on the city's municipal codes. This results in consistent execution on review process and fair judgment across all the projects. Give less consideration to other subjective opinions, which can be varied greatly from one person to another. 4. Please identify a project or projects that you find to be examples of good architecture, and explain why. You may attach samples, identify project addresses, or provide links. If you attach samples, �taff may request that you bring hard copy print outs to the interviews. 4197 Baker Avenue, Palo Alto, CA The home is a typical Spanish style house. The design is clean and neat. The window is traditional Spanish window, without unnecessary trims. The windows are quality wood clad ones with chestnut brown frame. All the doors have consistent Spanish look with old-world-styled clavos and speak easy, in dark walnut color, matching the window frame color and making great contrast to the bright wall color. The bright ivory wall really light up the house and bring the Spanish style out. The wall color goes very well with the dark red clay tiles on the roof. The balcony, covered porch, and the chimney all add layers to the design, avoiding flat and plain. The details, like the exterior lights, deco gable vents, and the deco tiles on the chimney bring elegant finishing to the house. The fence of black railing and short stucco wall create the sense of coherence and completeness. This is one of the references with aesthetic architecture and quality construction. 5. Architectural Review Board Members work with the documents listed below. If you have experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with these documents is not required for selection. I read some sections of the Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan when I purchased my home in Palo Alto. I read the majority of Zoning Code when I built my new houses. I read California Environment Quality Act and Density Bonus Law when I did research on Maybell Project last year. Architectural Review Board Application Personal Information Name: Matthew Harris Address: 217 McKendry Drive Cell Phone: 650-690-6282 @Home t00ffice Phone: 650-325-4157 E-mail: Harris_architect@yahoo.com Are you a Palo Alto Resident?Qves@ No 6UY Gf PALO ALTO. CA errv CLERK ·s OFFICE 14SEP 15 AHH:f17 Do you have any relatives or members of your household who are employed by the City oJJ;.alo A.JR, who are currently serving on the City Council, or who are Commissioners or Board Members? UYes(!) No Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for? ®vesONo California state law requires appointed board and commission members to file a detailed disclosure of their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest (Form 700). Do you have an investment in, or do you serve as an officer or director of, a company doing business in Palo Alto which you believe is likely to: 1) engage in business with the City; 2) provide products or services for City projects; or 3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? Oves®No Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property in Palo Alto?()ves @No How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Architectural Review Board? [{]community Group 0Email from City Clerk 0Palo Alto Weekly 0Daily Post D City Website 0Flyer Other:------------------------------- List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional registration: B.A. Art History, UCSC, M.Architecture, Univ. of Oregon; professional architectural practice experience 1994 -present; Owner of architectural design I engineering firm, 2010 -present; professional registration, CA licensed architect, #C33395 Employment Present or Last Employer: Sole proprietor, architecture firm, Matt Harris Architects, Menlo Park, CA Occupation: Architect Describe your involvement in community activities, volunteer and civic organizations: Active in re-organization of City of Palo Alto waste treatment facilities 2011 -present, Measure E ballot measure, participated as citizen activist, attended PA City council meetings regarding post-Measure E agenda items Page 1 Architectural Review Board 1. What is it about the Architectural Review Board that is compatible with your experience and of specific interest to you, and why? Architectural design is an important component of quality-of-life in City of Palo Alto, and the stewardship of the same requires some amount of education and knowledge. I believe my experience of growing up in Palo Alto as well as my professional training and experience as an architect could be useful in serving the purposes and functions of the ARB. It is my understanding that the ARB should protect and help shape the architectural integrity of the city. I can do that. 2. Please describe an issue that recently came before the Board that is of particular interest to you and describe why you are interested in it. If you have never been to a Board meeting you can view an archive here: LINK. Review of 240 Hamilton Avenue / 615 Ramona Street proposed new project was of interest to me because it featured the ongoing debate about balancing traditionalist, historicist design themes with modernist design themes in the downtown area. I do support the sense that the emphasis of the Board should be on encouraging high-quality architectural design and promoting a fairly liberal environment for architectural expression and development without narrow interpretations. 3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Architectural Review Board achieve, and why? How would you suggest accomplishing this? I would support the Board in encouraging high-quality architectural design and promoting a fairly liberal environment for architectural expression and development without narrow interpretations of style or compliance with any historical period styles. The way to achieve this goal might be to seek continuous improvement practices and methods within the Board, that is, to work to improve the clarity of public communications about the Board's means and methods of review. 4. Please identify a project or projects that you find to be examples of good architecture, and explain why. You may attach samples, identify project addresses, or provide links. If you attach samples, staff may request that you bring hard copy print outs to the interviews. 325 Lytton Avenue. Good example of balancing traditional architectural elements with modern office design. Examples of historical elements in this design include the contrasting colors in masonry exterior wall material, balanced against the modernist, hi-tech style of the glass canopy details at the cornice position. Overall effect achieved is good balance of architectural features from a fairly wide time period with regard to palette of materials and styles. 5. Architectural Review Board Members work with the documents listed below. If you have experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with these documents is not required for selection. Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan LINK Zoning Code LINK El Camino Real Design Guidelines LINK El Camino Real Master Plan Study LINK and Appendices LINK Area Plans such as the South of Forest Avenue (SOFA) I and II Plans LINK California Environmental Quality Act LINK Permit Streamline Act LINK Density Bonus Law LINK Secretary of the Interior's Standards LINK Comprehensive plans are required by CA State code as an aid to good government and regional planning. Familiar with State code which sets guidelines for municipal comprehensive plans. Page 2 Architectural Review Board Consent to Publish Personal Information on the City of Palo Alto Website California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, "No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first obtaining the written permission of that individual." The full code is attached. This consent form will not be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City's website. The full code can be read here: LINK Read the code, and check only ONE option below: ® I give permission for the City of Palo Alto to post to the City's website the attached Board and Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alto City Clerk. OR 0 I request that the City of Palo Alto redact my home address, phone numbers, and email address from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City's website. I am providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact information instead. Address: Cell Phone: 0Home 10office Phone: E-mail: 9/13/2014 Page 3 Architectural Review Board Personal Information Name: Address: 1<. I c H.:Al~ ?c Hie £1-;::. 'RMA.N. ~74' Lc::>MA V£ROE. f,l.1-D AC-To I Cell Phone: ~5 O • S~ep -lbo ~ 3 ®Home 1@0ffice Phone: 'B1'M €. CITY 0F PALO ALTQ. CA cny CLERK'S OFFICE 14 SEP 29 PH 4: ' ' E-mail: t<.CCHAP.P@ "?CHoEi....6~1'ViA.N. ~(V) Are you a Palo Alto Resident?@Yes Q No Do you have any relatives or members of your household who are employed by the City o~.: alo A~. who are currently serving on the City Council, or who are Commissioners or Board Members? UYesQY No Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for? ®vesONo California state law requires appointed board and commission members to file a detailed disclosure of their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest (Form 700). Do you have an investment in, or do you serve as an officer or director of, a company doing business in Palo Alto which you believe is likely to: 1) engage in business with the City; 2) provide products or services for City projects; or 3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? Oves~No Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property in Palo Alto? ©v es 0 No How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Architectural Review Board? Ocommunity Group 0Email from City Clerk 0Palo Alto Weekly Other: .Le 8 .U PfE,rg- 0DailyPost OcityWebsite 0Flyer List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional registration: Employment Present or Last Employer: Occupation: Describe your involvement in community activities, volunteer and civic organizations: Page 1 Architectural Review Board List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional registration: • Licensed Real Estate Salesmen/ 2004 -present • Licensed California General Contractor / 1989 -present • Licensed Architect / 1983 -present o California / 1989 -present o Texas -1983 / Louisiana -1986 /Arizona -1986 /Arkansas -1986 / New Mexico -1986 / Florida -1986 / Colorado -2001 (pass licenses) o Licensed Texas Interior Designer -1994 (pass license) • Master Degree in Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington / 1982 • National Council Architectural Registration Board certification number 41623 Employment Present or Last Employer: Occupation: Independent Contractor -Coldwell Banker Realtor, Architect, General Contractor Describe your involvement in community activities, volunteer and civic organizations: • Palo Alto University Rotary Club I 2003 -present o President elect I 2014 -present o Club President for the coming term I 2015 -2016 o Community Service committee chair I 2010-2013 o Club Annual Fundraising Committee I 2011 -present o RotaCare Clinic Annual Fundraising Committee I 2011 -present • Deacon Menlo Park Presbyterian Church I 2005 -2008 • City of Palo Alto Community Development Block Grant Citizen Advisory Committee I 2007 -2008 • Safety Assessment Program Volunteer (SAPV) Disaster Service Worker (DSW) State of California Governor's Office of Emergency Services I 2005 -2008 • Rebuilding Together Peninsula Playhouse Donation I 2005 and 2007 • Realtor Service Volunteer Program (RSVP) 2004 (free home repair services for seniors and the homebound) • Tour de Menlo bicycle ride volunteer (sponsored by Menlo Park Rotary Club) 2004 • Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce I 2003 -2005 I 2013 -present o Business Association Public Policy Forum (BAPPF) committee member I 2013 -present • Rotary Club Denver Southeast I 2001 -2003 1. What is it about the Architectural Review Board that is compatible with your experience and of specific interest to you, and why? • Architect for over 30 years • Palo Alto realtor for the past 10 year • Developer of residential property in Palo Alto and Menlo Park • General Contractor who owned and operated an 80 employee commercial construction company with projects including public schools, universities, medical facilities, retail, office, juvenile detention facilities, daycare, banking, churches, etc. • Many commercial properties are nearing the end of their building life cycle. o Replace buildings with higher density and mixed uses o Build with better efficiencies o Consume less energy, not more (net zero) o Reduction of operating costs o CalGreen Code energy performance standards which use LEED and built it green standards. 2. Please describe an issue that recently came before the Board that is of particular interest to you and describe why you are interested in it. If you have never been to a Board meeting you can view an archive here: LINK. • Build to Line requirements o Urban Design addresses the character and quality of the built environment in relation to the human scale. o The understanding of walking distances and spatial perceptions at a human scale determines the most positive placement of buildings, o Buildings ranging in height from two to six stories, trees, and pedestrian scaled signs and street lights, textured pedestrian paths, and semi-private spaces all enhance this positive scale. o Alleviate the fortress like feeling of recent developments such as the Alma Village / Grocery Outlet at 3445 Alma. • Streetscape compatibility with site landscaping requirements. Unified urban forest. • Context based analysis to ensure new buildings do not overpower existing development and to fit into local and regional visions for vibrant boulevards 3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Architectural Review Board achieve, and why? How would you suggest accomplishing this? • As new developments are occurring on El Camino Boulevard there is a unique opportunity to redefine the existing streetscape in order to bring it closer in line with Comprehensive Plan polices and the Grand Boulevard Initiative. • Encourage tree lined streets in Midtown and South Palo Alto to create a harmonious streetscape throughout the city. • Encourage undergrounding power lines to create a pleasing streetscape and showcase Palo Alto as true Silicon Valley leader. • Remove some on street parking along University Ave in front of restaurants to create pleasing outdoor dining opportunities without encumbering the sidewalks which will also increase restaurant economic viability. 4. Please identify a project or projects that you find to be examples of good architecture, and explain why. You may attach samples, identify project addresses, or provide links. If you attach samples, staff may request that you bring hard copy print outs to the interviews. • 245 Lytton Cornish and Carey, demonstrates balanced massing and scale. Not all the building is built up to the sidewalk. It provides human scale with a pedestrian friendly streetscape. • 400 Hamilton Wells Fargo Bank, utilizes the art of negative space and proportional massing to create human scale on the ground level and pleasing patios on upper levels. 5. Architectural Review Board Members work with the documents listed below. If you have experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with these documents is not required for selection. As a Realtor, Architect and General Contractor since 1982, I am well qualified to review and interpret the requested documents. Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan LINK Zoning Code LINK El Camino Real Design Guidelines LINK El Camino Real Master Plan Study LINK and Appendices LINK Area Plans such as the South of Forest Avenue (SOFA) I and II Plans LINK California Environmental Quality Act LINK Permit Streamline Act LINK Density Bonus Law LINK Secretary of the Interior's Standards LINK Consent to Publish Personal Information on the City of Palo Alto Website California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, "No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first obtaining the written permission of that individual." The full code is attached. This consent form will not be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City's website. The full code can be read here: LINK Read the code, and check only ONE option below: ~ I give permission for the City of Palo Alto to post to the City's website the attached Board and Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alto City Clerk. OR 0 I request that the City of Palo Alto redact my home address, phone numbers, and email address from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City's website. I am providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact information instead. Address: Cell Phone: 0Home 100ffice Phone: E-mail: Signature~ Page 3 Architectural Review Board Architectural Review Board Application Personal Information Name: Flore Schmidt Address: 1091 Tanland Drive 207 # 94303 Palo Alto Cell Phone: 0 Home 1®ottice Phone: 650 494 43 41 E-mail: schmidtflore@gmail.com Are you a Palo Alto Resident?@Ves Q No ©HY OF PALO ALTO. CA GITY CLERK'S OFFIC& I~ SEP 29 PH 5: 2' Do you have any relatives or members of your household who are employed by the City o!.falo A~.o,, who are currently serving on the City Council, or who are Commissioners or Board Members? UYes\!) No Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for? Oves®No California state law requires appointed board and commission members to file a detailed disclosure of their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest (Form 700). Do you have an investment in, or do you serve as an officer or director of, a company doing business in Palo Alto which you believe is likely to: 1) engage in business with the City; 2) provide products or services for City projects; or 3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? Oves®No Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property in Palo Alto?()ves @No How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Architectural Review Board? Ocommunity Group 0Email from City Clerk 0Palo Alto Weekly 0Daily Post Deity Website (i]Flyer Other: ______________________________ _ List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional registration: Full architecture degree, Paris-Versailles -France 1988 Graduate year in Rome La Sapienza University-Italy 1990 Cofonded and run 20 architects architecture firm in Paris area, France 1991-2013 Experience includes: Residentials & multi appartment buildings I education (3 high school - 2 middle school) I remodelling university campus in Orsay 11 Goverment (Civic Hall, library ... ) I sport facilities (stadium) I international experience I many competitions Not a California licensed architect Employment Present or Last Employer: Occupation: Moved to Silicon Valley 2014 /Currently works with Sunplanter INC a Solar building start up company, Palo Alto Describe your involvement in community activities, volunteer and civic organizations: Recently arrived in California. I am looking for involvement opportunities in subject I am deeply interested in. As Teenager I have consistently been engaged in Christian charity actions During the students years I have also given art classes (painting, drawing, sculpture & models) to 5-12 year children Page 1 Architectural Review Board 1. What is It about the Architectural Review Board that Is compatible with your experience and of specific interest to you, and why? For 20 years, I have been in France, on the other side of the table, submitting projects to building departments, boards & governments. Although the administrative organization is quite different, I have been wishing the French permit granting authorities were more open-minded, more professionally experienced and supported a higher vision. I also wished they better understood the designer's constraints and quest and there was a productive dialog between the designer and the authorities. I have been member of many architecture competition juries and I have been involved in several city planning projects from small to very large scale 2. Please describe an issue that recently came before the Board that Is of particular Interest to you and describe why you are interested in it. If you have never been to a Board meeting you can view an archive here: LINK. I have pleasure to hearfl debate goes on ! 3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Architectural Review Board achieve, and why? How would you suggest accomplishing this? I am very impressed by the level of the thinking I have seen at work here. I understand Palo Alto is headed to strong urban density which is something that occured in Europe decades ago. I have spent a large part of my professional life curing the failures of too fast or ill designed density all over France. I understand Palo Alto approaches is very smartly, with much reflection and inverting a genuine American way based on a series of great principles that drive American city planning. It must harmoniously develop the environment but still preserve every one's identity, freedom and potential to grow. I think it is a fascinating high level mission. How does city planning encourage "living together", "energy and ressource conservation" "meanningfull llfe", "efficient business", while make denser? 4. Please Identify a project or projects that you find to be examples of good architecture, and explain why. You may attach samples, identify project addresses, or provide links. If you attach samples, staff may request that you bring hard copy print outs to the Interviews. Let me talk here about PA City Hall. I don't know if ii works well internally, but I feel ii provides PA downtown with remarquable qualities. Its volume make it stand apart like a government building should, ifs architectural design, the material employed gives a scale and style reference. Ifs a landmark. It's also manages to create a European style "piazza" which is both a focal point, a breath in the city, a harbour while its reveals the institution's importance, providing public parking too. I absolutely do not mean private buildings should be allowed what the City Hall is. I mean that architectural design, volume, layout, building implementation must be use to build a neighborhood quality, an order in the city, meaning and hierarchy. However for the future, I strongly believe buildings should be designed around the sun so they are positive energy solar powered, so they treat the sun light and allow quality inner spaces while reducing reducing the need for air confitionning and artificial lighting. To my European ayes, LEED Platinum is an easy target, I wish Palo Alto invents the next step. 5. Architectural Review Board Members work with the documents listed below. If you have experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with these documents is not required for selection. Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan LINK Zoning Code LINK El Camino Real Design Guidelines LINK El Camino Real Master Plan Study LINK and Appendices LINK Area Plans such as the South of Forest Avenue (SOFA) I and II Plans LINK California Environmental Quality Act LINK Permit Streamline Act LINK Density Bonus Law LINK Secretary of the Interior's Standards LINK I am familiar with the French equivalent of most of these documents however I have no specific experience with the cited links. Page2 Architectural Review Board .. Consent to Publish Personal Information on the City of Palo Alto Website California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, "No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first obtaining the written permission of that individual." The full code is attached. This consent form will not be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City's website. The full code can be read here: LINK Read the code, and check only ONE option below: 0 I give permission for the City of Palo Alto to post to the City's website the attached Board and Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alto City Clerk. OR 0 I request that the City of Palo Alto redact my home address, phone numbers, and email address from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City's website. I am providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact information instead. Address: Cell Phone: 0Home 10office Phone: E-mail: . ~ Signature:_~_·_1 ____ U_r--_____ oate: 09/29/2014 Page 3 Architectural Review Board Architectural Review Board Application Personal fofonnation Name: Daniel Phb Addre•s: 11i()1181h$lre,et San Francisco, CA$4107 ce.11Phone:415-81~ @Home tOomee Phone::41.5-(J.16-588a e-mail: dpflP1m30.groail.rx>,m ~Y® a Pali> Alto R~_,,t?Qv•(i) Mo . &HY OF PALO ALro CA €1TY CLERK'S OF'FJDE 14 SEP 22 PH 4: 55 ~oyouh. av.e. a. ".r:i.el·a• tives. ormem.be. rs of. y. ()Ur. hou.aeh. otd·~.o a.re. em···.··p. loyedbyth.e C. Ttyoifalo~,who ~re eurrentlytiM\ling on we. Clo/ CQyncll, c:>t Whc;> are .comirli$$1Qne,rg or Bpard M~ml>er$? Ul••\!1 Mo m:ye>µ avatraple at;d.®mmitted tO t;OJTlplete the term ~pplij:Ki to(? (i:y._QNo C:alifornJa. state law req,ulres appointed board and commlss1on membeis to file a detailed dlsolosure· of tb~r finani;iii;il 1.ntereit1. 'Pair P<>litl~I Practices Oommlssioi'I• C()nftict :¢ Interest (fQ!lY'I 7PO). ~ you h~v~ an 1nves1tr1et!Un, or do y.ou serve as an ofliCer or dire¢tor of; a OQJ'npany doing buslne&!l in Palo Alto Whidh you believe lstlkel~ lo: 1.) engage. in busln,!*,ss'.wittrtbe Ctty; 2) ptovkfe produ~s or services ror:city projects; or 3) be affected :by deelsi.ons of the board or ®rnmission you are applying for? 0 v,s@No !=XQIQdil'lg yo:µr piinc:lpal r6idenee, ~o you own re~I property in Palo Alto? ()y.s @No . . M9w <lid you Learn about the vacancy on th.e Archtt:•l:®tal Review Board? Ocommunlty Group Ooaily Post [l)emall from City Clerk Detty Website 0Palo AlfQ Weekly QFlyer dllier.~~~~~~~~~~~~~--,~~~~~~~~~--~~- List re.levaot education, training; experience, cerUficates of training, Hcens", Qr prof'8sional regti.ttation,; Nine years of experience working on projects in the City of Palo Alto (Rehabilitation othistoric • residence.a, historic community la.ndmarks and Birge Clark buildin9s) Registered California Archi1ect, 033844 Employment J:1,ruentor LastEmployer.· Cody .Anderson Wasney Architects., Palo Alto, CA Q®!JP8t1Pn; Architect, Prqject: M~naget O.~~ri:be yt>ur involvementln community aotlvtt1'8r volunteer and civic organliatlcms: LJ:eP $anlli~tle Btiildiqg Cor;itest Volunteer Save the Bay Volunteer & Cpmrnunlty Outreach Pege1 AtdtiJlt!ltt.u~I R~vieW ~am 1. What Is it about the Architectural Review Board that is compatible with your experience and of specific interest to you, and why? I've worked on a handful of great projects in the City of Palo Alto in my short career and have had the honor to make a small impact and contribute to this treasured community. My goal for applying to become an Architectural Review Board Member is so I can take on a larger role to shape and help the City preserve its historical resources, encourage harmonious and sensitive development through great architecture and enhance the community environment for the public and Its residents. 2. Please describe an issue that recently came before the Board that is of particular interest to you and describe why you are interested in it. If you have never been to a Board meeting you can view an archive here: LINK. As a recent applicant that jusl submitted a historical rehabilitation project lor review at a ARB Board meeting, I experienced lirst hand how the Staff, Board members, architects, ownership, public and residents participate in the meeting. I observed that prior to the presentation and understanding all the positive I negative impacts of the project being proposed, neighborhood residents had their minds set against development. I'm aware that this happens a lot during Board meetings and believe we need a better forum to roster projects so that everyone Is clear on what was is at stake for each pro)ect much earlier in the process. 3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Architectural Review Board achieve, and why? How would you suggest accomplishing this? The City of Palo Alto is thriving and has been for many years. It's recent challenges include the need to balance its exciting growth and innovation with all of its great historic resources and growing negative public sentiment for development There is a disconnect between new development and the members of the public that the Board is often ushered in to manage. We need to encourage more community involvement through study sessions and outreach meetings to shape developments in earlier stages of the project. 4. Please identify a project or projects that you find to be examples of good architecture, and explain why. You may attach samples, identify project addresses, or provide links. If you attach samples, staff may request that you bring hard copy print outs to the interviews. Ramona Street Historic District, Palo Alto CA The one block National Register historic district in downtown Palo Alto was designed mostly by two well known local architects, Birge Clark and Pedro de Lemos. The rehabilitation work that has occurred to the historic buildings on the street is a great example of successful adaptive historic re-use, acute sensitivity to historlcal building character and harmonious architecture. 5. Architectural Review Board Members work with the documents listed below. If you have experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with these documents is not required for selection. Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan LINK Zoning Code LINK El Camino Real Design Guidelines LINK El Camino Real Master Plan Study LINK and Appendices LINK Area Plans such as the South of Forest Avenue (SOFA) I and II Plans LINK California Environmental Quality Act LINK Permit Streamline Act LINK Density Bonus Law LINK Secretary of the Interior's Standards LINK CPA Zoning Code, El Camino Real Design Guidelines, Permit Streamline Act, Secretary of Interior Standards Page 2 Architectural Review Board Consent to Publish Personal Information on the City of Palo Alto Website California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, "No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first obtaining the written permission of that individual." The full code is attached. This consent form will not be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City's website. The full code can be read here: LINK Read the code, and check only ONE option below: 0 I give permission for the City of Palo Alto to post to the City's website the attached Board and Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code Section 6254.21 . I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alto City Clerk. OR Q I request that the City of Palo Alto redact my home address, phone numbers, and email address from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City's website. I am providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact information instead. Address: Page3 Architectural Review Board Contact the Clerk's Office to View Additional Attachments or Images Related to this Document Consent to Publish Personal Information on the City of Palo Alto Website California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, "No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without ffrsl obtainin_g the written permission of that indi\lidual." T)1e full code is attached. This consent form will not be redacted and will be attached to /he Application and posted to the City's website. The full code can be read here: LINK Read the code, and check only ONE option below. 0 I give permission for the City of Palo .Alto lo post to the City's website the attached Board and Commission Appncation Intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code Section 6254.21. I may revoke, this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alto City Clerk. OR @ I request that the City of Palo Alto redac~ my home address, phone numbers, and eman, address from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the Cilis website. I am provldinEl the followihg alternate information and request that they use the following contact information instead. Address: 805 Sycamore Dr. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Cell Phone: 0Home 10office Phone: E-mail: ~~~~ September 22, 2014 Slgnature: ___ ...c~;.,,.,,,,,;~;;:=::;:=~....._~'""" ...... =-.:1:.-<..,...,~-=LX...;:a.._=<=-------Date:------ P~ge3 Archfteotural Revi1:1w Board ARB application – Catherine Ballantyne List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional registration: BS, Material Science & Engineering, Cornell University MS, Electrical Engineering, Cornell University Executive MBA, sponsored by Allied Signal Real Estate Salesperson License, #01360055, State of California Landscape Design, Foothill College, Horticulture & Design Employment Present or Last Employer: Principal, Ecological Design Occupation: Landscape Design Describe your involvement in community activities, volunteer and civic organizations: I've been an active participant in the Palo Alto community on multiple fronts --- as a HAM radio operator CERT [Emergency responder], as a neighborhood community builder [co-host of my neighborhood's 4th of July celebrations], as a parent volunteer first within the Friends Nursery School community, and now within PAUSD where I will shortly have four children concurrently enrolled at elementary through high school levels. I am also involved as a cyclist delighted by safer passage ways through certain thoroughfares, as a classically trained musician participating as a parent coach for talented youth selected to participate in the Palo Alto Chamber orchestra community, and as a tech leader at a hot local start up [Medallia]. Since 2001, I have been continuously engaged as a landscape designer where I have crafted the street-scapes of a handful of residences within the Palo Alto and mid-Peninsula areas. Currently I serve on the leadership committee created to facilitate community dialog around the updates to the comprehensive plan. 1. What is it about the Architectural Review Board that is compatible with your experience and of specific interest to you, and why? I am a fan of harmony. I am specifically interested in delving head first into the complexities of defining/evangelizing/achieving contextual harmony. Having lived in Palo Alto for the last two decades and watched how the community weathers cycles of change, I wonder if there isn’t a distinct shift occurring right now that may well become a tipping point for Palo Alto. As a design professional working in 3D on providing beauty over a 10+ year time horizon, I bring a distinctive perspective to build conversations. Although all five of the articulated responsibilities of the ARB appeal to me, I am keenly interested in the promotion of orderly and harmonious development of the city and in promoting high quality visual environments that are considerate of their context. ARB application – Catherine Ballantyne 2. Please describe an issue that recently came before the Board that is of particular interest to you and describe why you are interested in it. If you have never been to a Board meeting you can view an archive here: LINK. As an advocate for contextual harmony, I cannot help but be attracted to the project at 385 Sherman Ave. near Sarah Wallis Park that came before the board in August. It illustrates well how perceptions regarding development trends coupled with ARB design review effectiveness have polarized the community. One only has to look to a few of the online comments to get a sense of the passion ignited by the complicated issue of context. That the ARB voted 3/2 to approve it, is further evidence that even given a couple design cycles, ARB architects still wrestled with it's scale/ramifications/contextual harmony. 3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Architectural Review Board achieve, and why? How would you suggest accomplishing this? Given that the goals already defined for the ARB are sufficiently lofty, I would suggest considering a few alternative methods of achieving them. Principal among those alternatives would be to consider how to help our community better understand the bounds within which the ARB operates. I wonder if much of the recent skewering of the ARB by the public it serves could have been somewhat mitigated if people knew more about the ARB as a tool for the CC. Repeated evangelizing, for example, of both the five responsibilities of the board and the contextual constraints [zoning/ceqa/psa, etc.] within which those five responsibilities must be executed, might help to better equip community conversations around development which, in turn, might yield more fruitful hearings. 4. Please identify a project or projects that you find to be examples of good architecture, and explain why. You may attach samples, identify project addresses, or provide links. If you attach samples, staff may request that you bring hard copy print outs to the interviews. Provided in separate .ppt file 5. Architectural Review Board Members work with the documents listed below. If you have experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with these documents is not required for selection. As a member of the leadership committee created by the city council to facilitate community dialog around the updates to the comprehensive plan, I am working my way through the Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan document. Although my experience with the zoning code is scant/dated, I have slogged through some portions of it in connection with a project in 2006. My exposure to both the El Camino Real Design Guidelines and the El Camino Real Master Plan Study documents is limited to that which I gleaned as an observer of the recent ARB meetings in which the build to line was discussed. 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Col) .-<-< 1) engage in business with the City; 2) provide products or services for City projects; or 3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? Oves@>No Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property in Palo Alto?Qves .No How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Architectural Review Board? Ocommunity Group 0 Daily Post 0 Email from City Clerk 0 City Website 0Palo Alto Weekly 0 Flyer f"l'1 (p -0 ~-n I'" w f'1'"l-0 0 :::o~ ::x:r- -u;o ::c C):,t> 'II ::5 (iii) ¢'>. en ljl1·~ Other: (M111Q c4l.Nj UN t/l(i It SfllfMC.. List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional registration: 6Ullllll t•f'l DA'-T1'••1 H c•c14,f .,'4t, ,,,, f.t•Tl'I/~ l'ftt---t-01\. 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Read the code, and check only ONE option below: 4 I give permission· for the city of Palo ·Alto to post to the Ctty"s website the attached Board and F' Commission Application~intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alto City Clerk. OR ·~. 0 I request that the City of Palo Alto redact my home addres~. phone numbers, and email address from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City's website. I am . providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact information instead. Address: Cell Phone: 0Home 10office Phone:. E-mail: ' 1 ~ y/l." ~ Signature: _Ml_· -~-----------~111"=-----Date• 'f /Jtj /'I , .. ... ,,. .. ~· • . ·• Page 3 Architectural Review Board Carnahan, David From:mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, September 30, 2014 9:15 AM To:Grider, Donna; Council, City; Shepherd, Nancy; Holman, Karen; Carnahan, David Subject:weiss applies to Architecture Review Board concurrent to Council bid Ghost-dogging and gehry’d ARB ap Posted on September 30, 2014by markweiss86 Hoover Tower by Michael Broadhurst, of Abilities United and Greensboro, N.C. In the film you and Gehry compare filmmaking with architecture. What similarities or differences in the two arts struck you the most? A: They’re both mosaic arts in that they’re comprised of many, many, many other art forms all put together like a big puzzle. When they’re successful, they have a pleasurable dreamlike element – the shape of a piece of sculpture, of a building, the way light hits it, the dream of a movie, the idea of a movie. But in order to achieve either you have to break it down into technical components, which are sort of mosaic in nature. In order to build the building you have to understand all kinds of physics. You have to figure out how to get people in and out of the building, how to get sewers in and where to put the loading docks, etc. If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture. (Sydney Pollack on Frank Gehry and Dr. Milton Wexler) event 9/20/14 Lytton DESIGNED site specific by mark weiss for earthwise of paloalto I’m lampin’, I’m lampin’, I’m cold cold lampin’ Arrington et al 1. What is it about ARB that is compatible with your experience and of specific interest to you, and why? I design concerts, especially site-specific events like on Sept. 20, 2014, “!Taylor Ho!” featuring Taylor Ho Bynum and Ben Goldberg, free jazz concert at Lytton Plaza, when the music stopped Taylor and I biked from Lytton Plaza (he had started his day in San Francisco), to Bol Park and past Gunn High, towards Foothill where he proceeded on to Cowell Redwoods Park and eventually Los Angeles. I’ve produced more than 200 events here, most at Cubberley, and, based on that, submitted to Mandy Lowell et al a white paper on the value of Cub as a regional arts venue. I think the board would benefit from non-architect design values. In Pollock’s film about Gehry and his therapist Milton Wexler, the doctor noted that couples come to him to be happy while artists come to change the world 2. Please describe an issue that recently came before the Board …and describe why you are interested in it. I’ve spoken on about 10 projects in the last six months. Regarding the antennas at the Little League field I wrote, published and read into the record a prose poem about there being no “center field foul pole” which was not quite to the standards of Jack Hirschman or Lawrence Ferlinghetti, but borrows form it. I called it “chin music for corporate creep”:Old timers recall Art Kuehn bouncing a ball off the library, a long home run — he is our Babe Ruth. calling a shot Also, because my partner Terry Acebo Davis, the former two-term arts commissioner, once owned a house on Venice beach, which we checked on in July, I commented on a current downtown plan, the one designed by a psychologist but not Dr. Milton Wexler, and lauded it as “sorta Abbott-Kinney”. I knew slightly–ok, we met once, on the stairway, between the 5th and 6th floor of 77 Maiden Lane — Jay Chiat, the early champion of Frank Gehry — this is 1986 — and immediately sero- converted to Frank, and just this same July — we actually stayed Downtown LA at the old Universal Studios buildings — Pickford, Fairbanks — now called the Ace Hotel — with the JESUS SAVES neon intact — on Broadway but zipped out to Santa Monica Venice to see the Oldenburg binoculars at what is now Google La (goog lay lah) and made a little film there, similar to a film I made just last weekend walking from the new Anderson building thru the Richard Serra corten steel structure, to Cantor. We also, Terry and I, walked on the Disney concert Hall, exterior, a Gehry. Palo Alto needs, if not a Gehry, our version of such. We are more garish than Gehry. artwork by Stacey Carter, based on photo by Mark Weiss, NYC, summer 1988 I also own a print of the Oldenburg baseball bat; if you want to put one of those on Middlefield and pack that with senders and receivers, that I will support. 3. If appointed to ARB — but not seated by will of the people to Council November 4, 2014 — the specific goal I would like the ARB to achieve, and why and how I would suggest achieving, as part of process per se, an effect where, as Thoreau in 1849 and George Packer — Gunn 1978 — said in 2013, the leadership seems representative of and responsive to the people, and it’s not so much what color stucco or how much glass each new investment into our skyline and walking tour adds, but that there is a little of us in each brick, nail or plate so to speak, and, with due respect, to for example my Fremont Hills, Terman and Gunn schoolmate RP, there is at least a perception of lack. So maybe a sound and ambience slash negative space bricklayer would add a nuance to these proceedings and not just as a finish fetish. At the Tsuchianura Festival at Lucie Stern Sunday a lady named Nemet (but not unlike “Broadway Joe”) suggested we, like our Japanese Sisters, adopt a mascot; maybe we need a monster-mascot, to exorcise from these flippers and tear-downs and carpet-bagging opportunities, that which lurks herein. Maybe a zombie- ice-cream-cone fetish will make the monster homes seem more humane. 4. (long question, but opens doors, so to speak, to these visual aids) event DESIGNED by mark weiss for earthwise, lytton I like 250 Hamilton just fine, with or without the $4 mil facelift, Phil Ciralsky. (insert photo). I can also link to or reproduce in entirety here my previous draft of this posted as “Dancing About Architecture”. (I wrote two previous versions of this, from 4:20 to 5:25 while seated in lobby of 7th floor of 250, on my Apple laptop, but twice had the file deleted after answering the 4 questions above; David the clerk said “use Acrobat not Preview” and I admit I don’t know everything about this little doo-hicky — Terry did pay for, it was my 50th birthday — time at the “genius bar” but so far I have been faking it like an idiot savant, so maybe its just me. Number 5 I could not even get the thing to let me squeeze in a doomed bit of copy between all the links. I did suss out a bit on the previous links, thusly: Our forty six (46) not 80 zoning ordinances under Title 18 and our 38 not .62 building regulations, (i.e Title 16 et cetera) including the new ordinance about Public art and private development (which incidentally, I privately opposed, although I am somewhat known as proponent of the 1 percent in muni projects, and my partner is a former two-term arts commissioner). I likes me some Birge Clark. I think we should be charging Joe Bellomo for his bike racks on Civic Center MKL Plaza — it is not a park, it is a limited public forum. Can I say that here? This is my 59th post this month alone and my fourth attempt to be boarded. Two hundred fifty patters by “Christ” to 618 shields of reality by “King” David. Ten titles, or volumes, pulled somewhat hastily from my shelves, and then stacked neatly on a table at Peet’s about three hours and two posts ago: 1. Hiroshi Sugimoto & Jonathan Safran Foer, “Joe” about Richard Serra and Ando, in this case; 2. Art in America, June/July 2014 for article about architecture at Venice Bianalle, 3. Off The Wall!: A Guide to Greg Brown’s Murals in Palo Alto; 4 Trisha Brown, So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing — if and only if it has the photo of her site specific piece of people waving flags from rooftops; 5. Scott Meacham, Dartmouth College: The Campus Guide; 6. Almanac Chapple-Mazinani-Thomas which I think is about recent grad students at Stanford, and something in a tower, ala Ann Hamilton tower at the art colony up in Petaluma I toured a whiles back; which reminds me to look for content I created or documented when John Barton had some cute young French exchange students talk in a compelling way about 27 University; and further about John Barton, who said, at the time, I could ring him> 7. Al’ America, by Jon Curiel, the former Chron writer and friend of a friend thru the dear Charlotte Gerstein (Dartmouth 1986, from West Hartford, CT, whose father made a film about the fact that Mark Twain deliberately made his house there face that of Harriet Beecher Stowe, to annoy here) the connect being that Barton and Carrassco here build a lovely mosque; 8. From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe; 9. Fodor’s New York City from 1983 back in the good old days (and very avid Plastic Alto readers or close personal friends my recall that I spent February, 2001 that is in the final seven months of Western Civilization in New York, or Brooklyn for you sticklers and bums; and lastly a 10. Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide Clayton, Running Press Cyclopedia, this fits in my pocket although I shlepped all ten, plus David Shields Realty Hunger and a Linda Ronstadt cd in a canvas bag from SXSW 2009; I regrettably sold off my Christopher “Christ” Alexander, “A Pattern Language” which I bought in 1988 because Rob Bagot had it, Rob a future Howard Gossage winner, compared to Dan Mountain the 1988 Howard Gossage winner, Dan and HISWIFE, who Terry and I saw in July, Clay Kershaw was on the mound and the tv, in Venice Beach, an Abbot Kinney kind of thing, you know. This is my way of announcing that beyond or technically before in some ways running Mark Weiss me that is for Palo Alto City Council — and again, since we are on topic, exactly 26 years after conceiving of an actualizing and presenting the 1988 Goose Gossage Award for copywriting-reading to Jeff Goodby– I am also concurrently little poMo and yes “pomp” (my computer is now ghost-writing this part, on auto-Pilot the pen) that I am applying for the appointable position or seat for Architecture Review Board. Not being an actual architect – although Matt H. Porteus and I, in Clay Leo’s 1978 HisGoBAM/APB History and Geography of the Bay Area Metropolis slash American Political Behavior did once design a lovely little piece of fiction, and fishin’ for that matter, Port Weissius, somewhere between Escondido and San Diego or in another dimension, an architect. But I have a good eye for music. More to comb. (Do I get bonus points, in some universe, parallel or on a different plane, for bridging, like the grandfather of a nice lady from Michigan in Old Palo Alto, Claytons Kershaw and Leo?) edita, ten minutes later: I also shot on my Moto Android a group of 11 photos of works on paper (and in one case tin) of architectural themed art works, that I hope color, shapes, supports and bulwarks (if that is a verb) this application, or essay, or exercise, from a private collection; a private collection {self-edited} and then addendumbed down. >>>sarsaparilla, and this is NOT a Palo Alto Buildings Inspector training film, unless we want to be SEIU’d: Occasionally, some of your visitors may see an advertisement here. Tell me more | Dismiss this message Related Frank Gehry Jazz Bakery Long interview with Jessica Yu, lifted in honor of 148th anniversary of Gettysburg Address Two points for Gehry and assorted dribblingIn "art" About markweiss86 Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player; he also sang in local choir, and fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 View all posts by markweiss86 → This entry was posted in art, Plato's Republic, sex and tagged arthur bert kuehn, birge clark, christopher alexander,flavor flav, frank gehry, sonny valario, stacey carter. Bookmark the permalink. Edit Architectural Review Board Application Personal Information N. . Kyu Young Kim ame: Address: 1128 Oregon Avenue Cell Phone: 650-852•9747 @Home 10office Phone: 650-852-9747 E-mail: kyu@acsarchitects.com Are you a Palo Alto Resident?@Yes Q No GUY OF PALO ALTO. ClA CtTY CLERK'S OFflGE D. o .you have any .relatives or !11embers. of your household ~h~ are .employed .by the City oJ:.ealo ~.·. , who are currently serving on the City Counc1t, or who are Comm1ss1oners or Board Members? LJYes\!) No Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for? ®xesONo California state law requires appointed board and commission members to fife a detailed disclosure of their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest (Form 700). Do you have an investment in, or do you serve as an officer or director of, a company doing business in Palo Alto which you believe is likely to: 1) engage in business with the City; 2) provide products or services for City projects; or . 3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? Oves@No Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property in Palo Alto? ()res @No How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Architectural Review Board? 0community Group Ooaily Post 0Email from City Clerk lv'ICity Website 12]Palo Alto Weekly 0Flyer . Previously applied, practicing design profressional in architecture. Other: ____________________________ _ List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional registration: -American Institute of Architects Associate Member ~ Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Employment Present or Last Employer: ACS Architects Occupation: A h' I D . I D fts re 1tectura es1gner ra man Describe your Involvement in community actMtles, volunteer and ciVic organizations: -A member of Palo Alto Forward -Children's Ministry teacher at New Community Baptist Church Page 1 Architectural Review Board 1. What is it about the Architectural Review Board that is compatible with your experience and of specific interest to you, and why? I am a practicing design professional, living and working in Palo Alto. I have grown up in Palo Alto and plan to conitnue living here and contributing to Palo Alto's future. 2. Please describe an issue that recently came before the Board that is of particular interest to you and describe why you are interested in it. If you have never been to a Board meeting you can view an archive here: LINK. 636 Middlefield Road -I am involved with the project and gave the last presentation to the board Little League Cell Tower -... 3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Architectural Review Board achieve, and why? How would you suggest accomplishing this? Making meetings and hearings more efficient, bringing in a younger point of view. 4. Please identify a project or projects that you find to be examples of good architecture, and explain why. You may attach samples, identify project addresses, or provide links. If you attach samples, staff may request that you bring hard copy print outs to the interviews. Los Gatos Library -organization, relationship to surroundings, materials, space Stanford Clark Center -relationship to people in-and-out of building Apple Store -Downtown & Stanford Mall, innovative details and materials, sustainable strategies 5. Architectural Review Board Members work with the documents listed below. If you have experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with these documents is not required for selection. Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan LINK Zoning Code LINK El Camino Real Design Guidelines LINK El Camino Real Master Plan Study LINK and Appendices LINK Area Plans such as the South of Forest Avenue (SOFA) I and II Plans LINK California Environmental Quality Act LINK Permit Streamline Act LINK Density Bonus Law LINK Secretary of the Interior's Standards LINK Page 2 Architectural Review Board Consent to Publish Personal Information on the City of Palo Alto Website California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part. "No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first obtaining the written permission of that individual." The full code is attached. This consent form will not be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City's website. The full code can be read here: LINK Read the code, and check only ONE option below: @ I give permission for the City of Palo Alto to post to the City's website the attached Board and Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alto City Clerk. OR 0 I request that the City of Palo Alto redact my home address, phone numbers, and email address from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City's website. I am providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact information instead. Address: Cell Phone: @Home 1QOffice Phone: E-mail: ~ 9/29/2014 Signature: ---ilh4~1!!!'.:tf::J~!!!!!l!!!!!-=~"T~~111111· ·,:____~·------------Date: _____ _ Page 3 Architectural Review Board Personal Information Name: .lcQ~kV ~ 's~~tJCr . Address: ·~f/ ~\\Jf-~£ 'fft .f,.\J't. ={f:307 cen Phone: b6D £ qot> /oSq 9J'Home /~Offife Ph,one: ~e,. ·E-mail: tAGqe~~\t\S@o.c,\, C-o~ Are you a Palo Alto Resident?~YesQNo CHY 6F PALO ALTO. CA CITY GLERK'S OFFICE . I~ SEP 22 PH 3: 85 Do you have any relatives or members of your household who are employed by the City of Palo Alto, who are currently serving on the City Council, or who are Commissioners or Board Members? Oves,ilNo Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for? ~es 0 No California state law requires appointed board and commission members to file a detailed disclosure of their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest (Form 700). Do you have an investment in, or do you serve as an officer or director of a company doing business in Palo Alto which you believe is likely to: 1) engage in business with the City; 2) provide products or services for City projects; or 3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? Qv es St No Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property in Palo Alto? Oves®No How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Historic Resources Board? Ocommunity Group §Daily Post D Email from Cit. y Clerk City Website OPalo Alto Weekly Flyer t>E:N't~h .. S ~~Nl>. Other: A'IVJ....\ ~kf.JcJ;S l H~~\~ ( +\ \e-~ ~EY\~) List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional registration: ~Of:-e~f,\O tJ~ ~~rtU.-T'&-t_AC£.f\j~-t,;4t= '2~534- "B . .-k, f\2-oH 0N\\J~\\L(' or G/\l..-\F. ~\C..e.LE.'-f ~AC\\v\ ~~ ~~t\\\e;c.,,-~~ t:"~t£>b~'TvL(' Employment Present or Last Employer: SC:-\..-~ ~t-\Pt..DL.(f:.D .,...T f, ~ • g, pe:S\~NS · Occupation: fq2C-H rr ~I Page 1 Historic Resources Board 1. What is it about the Historic Resources Board that is compatible with your experience and of SP!i!Cific interest to you, and why? \ ~\;\ *. 1'~kl,.,-~ \ C..-\ '\\) &> ~o ~~\,&\J~ -A-\2Utt''T~T Wf{&' ~\~\)€$ t~ ~~i~ .ft~S~D [2-\(., <5~vc;;fu~ · + ~~\Jt~iJ~s ~ fUi"~ ~~etJr, 2. Please describe an issue that recently came before the Board that is of particular interest to you and describe why you are interes~ted in it. If you have never been to a Board meeting you can view an archive here: LINK. . __, . 3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Historic Resources Board achieve, and why? How would you suggest accomplishing this? Co~ltJ ue:: -ro SA..\J C:.. ~ ':f\2:~~\)e;.., i\l~T0 12-tLA L-~ue$T-f\NCL l~ ~T~t>C..10~&-f 4 ~Vlf!Of'JlMWT~ Sc> TtteY ~M.€=. ~et..~\JNJT 4 5TA4 "'UV~ 4 . {tJ USt +.S "11,-\\I E::. i-\ l~Te>p-"( IC i-ft\S ~\..{ AJ)HE:fa-1~ 'to ~ $f?F-~\t>S · +. ~\~~ \~T 1' ~w~ -BJ"f\\'--f L~ flsW A'<To , 4. Please identify a project or projects that you find to be examples of good historic architecture, and explain why. You may attach samples, identify project addresses, or provide links. If you attach samples, staff may request that you bring hard copy print outs to t~interviews. \ 12fbE:; ct..-k~ 130\ LD\t-ttos) , I e, (j) f'f2.-Eb\ t>~' ~ \-\tf(l::L-. ~rs . K~\~ 'Pvs.,-off\& @ VA~S\-t°i Ttl~)Xti2-{j) HAltJ U~~\2-Y lt>t)O fo~\ "-.J & · 12-f;S\t>W~ 6!lC-T0\2-l~ 5. Historic Resources Board Members work with the documents listed below. If you have experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with these documents is not required for selection. Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element LINK f==A't'\ \ v\~~ \A.) 1'1'.\-\ \\ ~~U.V Palo Alto Municipal Code Chapter 16.49 LINK ~\-\ \iU~~ 4f \>S~ ~R \>t2ef-€:SS \e t0 Secretary of the Interiors Standards for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring, and Reconstructing Historic Buildings LINK 17kt-\\Uk{2. ~ ~\_,., r\ \S T~ ~~ ~~.-.\\\S\e~(C. California Environmental Quality Act LINK *='--u 1 , L 4 ~~~K{'tt'JN • - ' f'T' \ '-"~{?--~ ~ IT l S \/~ '{ ll-\O~f.'\AN'T f.::>1.--\C-i ·0oc, +~~ ~· ~ue,uc_· t ~'f~toN'M--S nJ :D\t<ecnotJ t &l>~T~~ or "b~~l,o-Pt-\~T' Page 2 Historic Resources Board Consent to Publish Personal Information on the City of Palo Alto Website California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, "No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first obtaining the written permission of that individual." The full code is attached. This consent form will not be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City's website. The full code can be read here: LINK Read the code, and check only ONE option below: ~ I give permission for the City of Palo Alto to post to the City's website the attached Board and Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alto City Clerk. OR 0 I request that the City of Palo Alto redact my home address, phone numbers, and email address from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City's website. I am providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact information instead. Address: Cell Phone: QHome tQOffice Phone: E-mail: Page 3 Historic Resources Board .~ • C!iY OF PALO ALTO Application to Serve on the Historic Resources Board CITY Of PALO AL:Ta CA CITY CLERK'S OFFICE I 4 SEP -4 AH ff.: 13 Palo Alto welcomes volunteers and we appreciate that you are taking the time to apply. Completion of this application provides valuable information to the City Council. Please complete the application to the best of your abilities. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the City Clerk's Office. The Historic Resources Board is responsible for: • Reviewing and making recommendations to the Architectural Review Board on proposed exterior changes of commercial and multiple-family buildings on the Historic Building Inventory; • Reviewing and making recommendations on exterior changes of significant (Categories 1 and 2) single-family residences on the Historic Building Inventory; • Researching and making recommendations to the City Council on proposed additions and on reclassifications of existing buildings on the Inventory; and • Performing other fu nctions as may be delegated from time to time to the Historic Resources Board by the City Council. Please see Palo Alto Municipal Code Sections 2.16, 2.27 and 16.49 for more detailed information. The Historic Resources Board is composed of seven members who are not Council Members, officers, or employees of the City. Members shall have demonstrated interest in and knowledge of history, architecture or historic preservation. One member shall be an owner/occupant of a category 1 or 2 historic structure, three members shall be architects, landscape architects, building designers or other design professionals and at least one member shall possess academic education or practical experience in history or a related field. Terms of Board Members will be for three years. The Historic Resources Board typically meets on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at 8:00 am. In addition to regular meetings, members may be asked to participate on at least one sub-committee which could hold additional meetings. Click here to receive email notifications of vacancies CLICK HERE. You are also welcome to contact the City Clerk's Office at 329-2571 or David.Carnahan@cityofpaloalto.org. THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK FOR DUPLEX PRINTING Personal Information Name: Martin Bernstein Address: QHome 1@offlce Phone: E-mail: Are you a Palo Alto Resident?@YesQNo Do you have any relatives or members of your household who are employed by the City of Palo Alto, who are currently serving on the City Council, or who are Commissioners or Board Members? Oves@No Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for? ®ves 0 No California state law requires appointed board and commission members to file a detailed disclosure of their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest (Form 700). Do you have an investment in, or do you serve as an officer or director of a company doing business in Palo Alto which you believe is likely to: 1) engage in business with the City; 2) provide products or services for City projects; or 3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? ()ves @No Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property in Palo Alto? Oves@No How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Historic Resources Board? §Community Group §Dally Post Email from City Clerk City Website Palo Alto Weekly Flyer Other: ______________________________ _ List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional registration: Mr. Bernstein obtained his Bachelor of Architecture degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Martin has also lived in Italy, where he has studied the Italian and European traditions. He is well versed in styles ranging from historical to contemporary. Martin has been active in Bay Area home design since 1984, and is familiar with the unique character of various neighborhoods, as well as local building regulations. Employment Present or Last Employer: Martin Bernstein Architect Occupation: Architect Describe your involvement In community activities, volunteer and civic organizations: President, Los Altos Hills Historical Society, Los Altos Hills, CA. USA. and served as President, Palo Alto Stanford Heritage. Palo Alto, CA, USA. Martin's Architectural Travel Drawings have been exhibited in San Francisco, CA, USA and Santa Clara, CA, USA. He currently leads architectural walking tours in Pacific Heights, San Francisco, CA, USA and the Professorville National Historic District and Downtown Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA. USA. Martin provides architectural freehand drawing instruction and cover art drawing services for Mills College Cottage Tours, Palo Alto, CA, USA. Chair Professorville Design Guidelines Committee. Page 1 Historic Resources Board 1. What is it about the Historic Resources Board that is compatible with your experience and of specific interest to you, and why? Membership on the HRB provides an opportunity to assist in educating the public about the cultural value of historic preservation. Being a fair judge when balancing the concerns of historic preservation with the needs of contemporary life-style needs is an important aspect of a Board Member. My practical experience includes restoring and remodeling 20 historic structures. 2. Please describe an issue that recently came before the Board that is of particular interest to you and describe why you are interested in it. If you have never been to a Board meeting you can view an archive here: LINK. A discussion that explored balancing the requirements of the Secretary of Interior Standards for Rehabilitation with the intentions of individual property owners. 3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Historic Resources Board achieve, and why? How would you suggest accomplishing this? I would like the Board to be an approachable resource that provides public education about historic preservation. A suggestion to accomplish this includes inviting school-age children to attend a HRB Public Hearing. 4. Please identify a project or projects that you find to be examples of good historic architecture, and explain why. You may attach samples, identify project addresses, or provide links. If you attach samples, staff may request that you bring hard copy print outs to the interviews. Several homes in Professorville that conform with the Secretary of Interior Standards for Rehabilitation. 5. Historic Resources Board Members work with the documents listed below. If you have experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with these documents is not required for selection. Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element LINK Palo Alto Municipal Code Chapter 16.49 LINK Secretary of the Interiors Standards for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring, and Reconstructing Historic Buildings LINK California Environmental Quality Act LINK I have experience with all of these documents. Comprehensive Plan: I contributed comments to the City Council during the Plan's development. Municipal Code: I utilized the Code when analyzing proposed projects. SISR: I utilized the SISR when analyzing proposed projects. CEQA: I applied the CEQA when analyzing proposed projects. Page 2 Historic Resources Board Consent to Publish Personal Information on the City of Palo Alto Website California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, "No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first obtaining the written permission of that individual." The full code is attached. This consent form will not be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City's website. The full code can be read here: LINK Read the code, and check only ONE option below: 0 I give permission for the City of Palo Alto to post to the City's website the attached Board and Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alto City Clerk. OR ® I request that the City of Palo Alto redact my home address, phone numbers, and email address from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City's website. I am providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact information instead. Address: 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto CA 94301 Cell Phone: 650.324.9610 0Home t{!)Office Phone: E-mail: 04SEP2014 Page 3 Historic Resources Board Historic Resources Board Application Personal lnfonnation N Michael Makinen ame: Address: Cell Phone: ~,~ .z:-~ QHomeiliiiiiiiillOffice Phone: ~ -<-< -0 ~G'l E-mail ,..,, N ,..,-a Are you a Palo Alto Restdent?@v_-QNo N ~~ Do you have any relatives or members of your household who are employed by the City of Palo Alt~ho~:x> are currently serving an the City CGwncil; er who are Commissioners or &Gard Members? Oves@ic, ::tj~ Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for? @v es Q No ~ ~ n CalifOmla state law requires appointed board and commission members to file a detailed disclosure of )> their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest (Form 700). Do you have an investment in, or de you seFVe as an affieer or director of a eompany doing business in Palo Alto which you believe is likely to: 1) engage in business with the City; 2) provide products or services for City projects; or 3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? ()f es @No· Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property in Palo Alto? Oves®No How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Historic Resources Board? § Community Group §Daily Post ~~ail.from City Clerk City Website Palo Alto Weekly Flyer I currently serve on the HRB and I am the Vice Chairman. Other: ___________________________ _ U•t relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, llcenses, or profetslonal f!tDlstratlon: My education includes a BSME and a MSME. I am currently a historic preservation consultant for NASA at Moffett Field. Prior to my retirement from NASA, I was the NASA Ames Historic Preservation Officer. I was responsible for all aspects of historic preservation, relating to Individual historic buildings, historic districts and historic landmarks. I worked with the California Office of Historic Preservation and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation on actions at Moffett Field relating to all historic properties Including the airship hangars and historic districts. I have attended over 50 trajn!na sessions and seminars on hjstorjc nreseruatjpn Employment Present or Last Em 10 er: NASA, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA """'"' ti. Hlstorrc Preservation Officer, Chief of Facilities Planning Office V\Nupa on: Desc;rlbe Y.OUI ll)voiumtnt 111.convn.uoitY ac.tivltlet, ~lta\teer 8.{td civic Ol1Ulnlzatlone: I pan1c1pate m the Restorauon AaVJsory Boara (HAts), a cmzens aav1sory group that reviews actions proposed by the US Navy for the environmental remldation of the former Naval Air Station property at Moffett Field. The RAB provides oritque of proposals and makes recommendations to the Navy regarding actions to eliminate environmental sontamination at Moffett Field . · · · · Page1 f'flstorte Res1:1ur<:E1s Board 1. What is it about the Historic Resources Board that is compatible with your experience and of specific interest to you, and why? Tfle Historic Resources Boaro deals with many of the same issues regarding the treatment of historic properties and historic districts that I have worked on at Moffet Fieldlo resolve. The Historic Resorces Board utilizes tne Secretary of tl"le Interior's Standards to address evaluations of proposed treatment and rehabilitation plans of historic properties in the same manner as my experience and interest in solving historic issues related to modification, adaptive reuse and rehabilitation of historic buildings and historic districts at Moffett Field. 2. Please describe an issue that recently came before the Board that Is of particular interest to you and describe why you are interested in It. If you have never been to a Board meeting you can view an archive here: LINK. A project that came before the HRB on December 5, 2012,was the so called "Arts & Innovation District" also known as 27 University Ave, (MacArthur Park), was of particular interest to me, This project was developed and matured before it came to the HRS for review in a study session, It was obvious from the first review that the project had not considered any impacts to the city owned historic resource (27 MacArthur Park). I expressed strong objections to the impacts that the project would have to a National Register listed property. 3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Historic Resources Board achieve, and whY.? How would you suggest accomplishing this? I would like to see the citizens of Palo Alto become more aware of the value of historic preservation. This value is expressed in maintaining a high quality of life for our citizens and the enhancement of property values. One project that the HRB is currently working on is the Professorville design guidelines to better acquaint and guide home owners. The HRB also invites homeowners to seek advice from the Board on rehabilitaion planning of their properties. Educational outreach is a goal I would like to to see the HRB expand on. 4. Please Identify a project or projects that you find to be examples of good historic architecture, and explain why. You may attach samples, identify project addresses, or provide links. If _you attach samples, staff may request that you bring hard copy print outs to the Interviews. TheHRB reviewed the rehabilitation planning for 345 Forest Ave. (Lanning Chateau apartments) on June 5, 2013. The HRB was able to agree with the selected modification of the building that allowed for commercial use In the ground floor space while still preserving the historic character of the building. Additional windows and doors were designed and installed that were compatible with the historic character of the building. The successful application of the Secretary of the Interiors Standards allowed modern usage while still maintaining historic integrity. 5. Historic Resources Board Members work with the documents listed below. If you have experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with then documents Is not required for selection. Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element LINK Palo Alto Municipal Code Chapter 16.49 LINK Secretary of the Interiors Standards for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring, and Reconstructing Historic Buildings LINK California Environmental Quality Act LINK As a long standing member of the HistOFic Resorces Board we worked with all of the above documents. The documents most frequently utilized are the Secretary of the Interiors Standards and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The HRB also references the Palo Alto Mun1c1pa1 Code for most of our reviews and the comprehensive Plan is sometimes referencea. Page2 Historic Resources Board Consent to Publish Personal Information on the City of Palo Alto Website California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, "No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first obtaining the written permission of that individual." The full code is attached. This consent form will not be redacted and wHI be attached to the Application and posted to the City's website. The full code can be read here: LINK Read the code, and check only ONE option below: 0 I give permission for the City of Palo Alto to post to the City's website the attached Board and Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alto City Clerk. OR 0 I request that the City of Palo Alto red~ct my home address, phone numbers, ancf email address from the attached Board and. Commission Application prior to posting to the City's website. I am providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact information instead. Address: Cell Phone: <!/46 J 5'0.3 -9-9 2.6 QHome !@Office Phone: r!t-fo) 2-?3 -4'12..' J E-mail: (_ ~sn) .3 23 -4~t:JlJ /"1 I l<G' 4'12 G a /t'OL , Cd/f-1 Signature: _......_.;n......,_~ ........... ~ ........... /.-..... U>_. _,.-~--~--~------Date: l' /z; /1-1- Page3 Historic Resources Board ~ • ' Piease ·return to: . HISTORIC RESOURCES ~OARD SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONNAIRE (659) 329-2571 Office of the City Clerk 250 Hamilton A venue Palo Alto,.CA. 94301 Name ___ M....,i=·(~ ... ha""tl=-P .... ._,_.f:fa;;ki=' .... ne...,n ______ _ Please prix!t or type yow answers to the following qu~ti9ns and submit wilh your completed appiication. You may submit additional sheets, if necessat}', to complete yoilr answers. · . 1. Have you· aneoded any of the followfug meetings? a BoardJCommission Orientation Session Date_· ---------- • Historic Resour?Cs Board · ( MISHISc'"ll) x Date :1Jff2·~ ~ . IC> · ~llTG · 2. How did you leai:n about vacancy on the Historic Resour?es Board? Comi;nunity. Group-._ Newspaper Ad-.--Place of Employment __ Utility.Bill Stuffer __ . · City Clerk's Office ·-- .. , ) Other (specjfy) c l.llUU7v7LY JI/. 1"1EM<ft:~ OF r.#c /.f.RK (Vice~; Cl/If It~ .. il~8) 3. Are you an owner/occupant of an historic structu;re (Category l or 2), or of a structuie in an histori~ district? oui»6t OP 'If Cip7GC'-(),ey .3 /ltJi.J.5(7' ) I" . ' ) . . ) \ I ) · 4. Ar9 you an architect, landscape arChitect, building designer or other design prof essionan I am a mechanical engineer by education (MSME) and I have worked as a NASA engineer, manager and supervisor for many years. I taught (part time) ·ar~hitectural graphic·s at Baldwin Wallace College in Ohio for 20 years. I also have experience in renovation of historic properties. I currently serve as the NASA -Ames Historic Preservation Officer. As the chief historic preservation official at NASA -Ames, I am responsible for the NASA -Ames Resear.ch Center historic preservation program and negotiating historic preservation Issues (undertakings) with the .State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) on all matters relating to compliance with historic preservation laws. I have also been responsible.for developing urban planning concepts for the reconfiguration of existing property and land at Moffett Field. This property includes an airfield, golf course, 750 units of military family housing and various other US Navy buildings and land. This property was conveyed to NASA in ~994 as a result of the U.S. Navy Base R~duCtion action.· NASA is currently adaptively re-utilizingJhe historic properties at Moffett Field for Carnegie Mellon University's new.western campus. The California Air And Space Center wHI soon begin the conversion of the historic dirigible hangar # . 1 into an air and space museum. Another'new facility, the Computer History Museum, will soon be erected adjacent to the Moffett Field historic district property. I am re~ponsible for directing architects and planners working on these lssoes. I have also worked with traffic analysts and the Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority {VT A} on traffic planning issues related to Highway l01 ·interconnects tq Moffett Field {Moffett Blvd. and Ellis Street exits). Additional work with the VTA involved establishing the NASA alternate commute program. t have also managed anq coordinated contract urban planning and historic preservation work being performed by.EDAW Inc, OMJM Architects, Beyond Buildings Hi.storic Preservati9n Consultants,.Bay Area Economics Inc., Caltrop~ Associates, Page & Turnbull Preser.vation Architects and Architectural Resources Group (ARG). This work at Moffett Field has also involved coordination with the planning departments of the City of Mountain View and the City Of Sunnyvale on a frequent basis. I developed the NASA -Ames Research Center Historic Resources Protection Plan for the Shena11daoh Plaza Nation~! Historic District at Mo ff ell Field. This plan has been submitted to tlie SHPO and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Prior to this work, I managed the development of a report known as the Cold War Era Survey <;>f buildings at Moffett Field for historical significance related to the cold war ~ra. · I-have recently.been involved in the creation of the Environmental Impact Statement of the NASA Ames Development Plan which includes work related to historic properties at Moffett Field. !1 .,. • • .. ... . ·-·~; . : California state law requires appointed board and commission.mciµber.s . to file a detailed disclosur~ of their ~ial 4iter~l$. DQ you.have an . .-, inves~ent in, or do. yo_u.serie u an o~r or 9i;rector of, .a comI)anw doing business in Palo Alto which you ~lieve is likely 1) to engage in busio.ess·wi~ tlie City;2) ttfprovide pr6dl!cts (jr services for'City-projects, or 3) be affected by decisions of the board ~r cominission you are applying . ,for? . If.yo~ answeted yes, you may wish to consult with thC. City Attorney . before filing tIW -appli<;ation. Please contact Ariel Cciloone at (650) "329-2171 to arian~e ~ appoin~ent. · Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property ill Palo Alto or with.in two miles of P~o Alto? lf you answere<! yes, you may wisll to co~Ul.t )Vith the City Attorney before filing this appli~tion. Please ·contact Ariel Calonne at ( 650) 329-~171 to arrange an' appointment. EMPLOYMENT ) .Ya· .. I \ ' . ' .. I ) • x. '."~):::;~~~·>~?:?'}:.: ,; . ' ':;,4\';<~ ·. ~ .,.~::· __ ... _.,. ..... ~· . ' Present or last employer · 1 .. 1orc~'!1Pani . NITS;:/-/1/l'!EJ l?e'MCH . CC/t'7c7f!. FHC/L.IT/li'.$ fl:t~> N/1..SJ:l F/ .O~atioo tVlifll lf/ST"ltlC:.pi;SIF.RWITI~~ . t;>FP:lt;.F~· .. l ) . .·. t). ··.•'· . ,. \ > ) ) 10. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Historic Resources Board achieve? · Improving the Image of the Palo.Alto.Historic.Resources program with the community and developi.f"!g greater community support . . . ~ ;,. , . ... . : '\, ,; . ·.' .,_:.;,. '., 'l• /\ ~ Historic, kesources Board Appl ..... '>ation Personal Information CITY eJF PALO ALTO. CA CITY CLERK'S OFFICE Name: Margaret Wimmer Address: PO Box 60681 Palo Alto. CA 94306 CeUPhone:650-646-1610 ()HomeBE)OflicePhon~ E-mait mmwimmer@yahoo.com Are you a Palo Alto Resident?®vesQNo 14 SEP 22 PH 3: '43 Do you have any relatives or members of your household who are emproyed by the City of Paro Alto. who are currently smving on the City Council, or who are Commissioners or Board Members? Oves®No Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for? ®res 0 No California slate raw requires appointed board and commission members to fife a detailed disclcsure of their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest (Form 700). Do you have an investment in, or do you serve as an offieer or director of a company doing business in Paro Alto which you believe is likely to: 1) engage in business with the City;; 2) provide products or services for City projects; or 3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? Qves @No Excl'uding your principal residence, do you own real proj,erty in Palo Alto? Oves®No How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Historic Resources Board? §Community Group §Daily Post Email from City Clerk City Website Paro Alto Weekly Flyer Other: I am currently serving on the Board List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional registration: I have a Bachelors Degree from the College of Architecture and Environmental Design from Arizona State University. Employment Present or Last Employer: I am Self Employed Occupation: Residentfsl Designer Describe your involvement in community activities, volunteer and civic organizations: I am currently a board member of the HRB. Page 1 Historic Resources Board ) ) 1. What is it about the Historic Resources Board that is compatible with your experience and of specific interest to you, and why? I have done work on local historic residences and have presented to the board in the past. I have a special interest in historic architectural design. 2. Please describe an issue that recently came before the Board that is of particular interest to you and describe why you are interested in it. If you have never been to a Board meeting you can view an archive here: LINK I think the whole process is interesting and educational. 3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Historic Resources Board achieve, and why? How would you suggest accomplishing this? I think greater community awareness of the board and the boards purpose would be a great goal to have. 4. Please identify a project or projects that you find to be examples of good historic architecture, and exprain why. You may attach samples. identify project addresses,, or provide links. If you attach samples. staff may request that you bring hard copy print outs to the interviews. I think most of the historic residences in ProfessorviHe that have come before the board have been great examples of projects that are maintianing historic character while trying to acomodate modem lifestyles. building codes and technology. 5. Historic Resources Board Members work with the documents listed below. If you have experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with these documents is not required for selection. Paro Alto Comprehensive Pfan Land Use Bement LINK Paro Alto Municipal Code Chapter 16.49 LINK Secretary of the Interiors Standards for Preserving. Rehabilitating. Restoring, and Reconstruciing Historic Buifdings LINK California Environmental Quallly Act LINK I have experience with CEOA. and the Secretary of the Interiors Standards mostly with my work with the board. I have experience with the PAMC thru my work as a residential design professional. Page2 Historic Resources Board .. ) Consent to Publish Personal Information on the City of Palo Alto Website California Government Cod.'e Section 6254211 states, in part, vNo state or focal agency shall post the home address or tefephone number of any erected or appointed official on the Internet without first obtaining 111te written permission of that individuae The full code is attached. This consent fomr will not be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City"s website. The full code can be read lltere: LINK Read the code, and check onl'y ONE option below: ® I give permission for the City of Paro Alto to post to the City's website the attached Board and Commission Apprication intact I have read and understand my rights under Government Code Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alb City Clerk. OR 0 I request that the City of Pa!o Alto redact my home address, phone numbers, and email address from the atra.dtedl Board and CommiSsi.cn Appticaticn prior to posting to lhe City''s websile. I am providing the fotrowing alternate information and request that they use the following contact Information instead .. Address: Cell Phone: QHome 1Qomce Phone: E-mail: Signature:__,_kJ_..____· -----~--· ..___,_V6<\\_______,_ __ Date 1/ 'to( ]/0/4- Page3 Historic Resources Board Personal Information Name: f!.!:613/Z l<' Kolfz..-&1(. Address: 41--1} W/~}(,JE wA'f Cell Phone: (plJ!.1 ~.7/' &~;;Z> QHome t@Office Phone: ft?t?t? ~2.8 I o/J.(p ' E-mail: f" /< /{ t\ Y' c.h @-at>/, ~b h1 - Are you a Palo Alto Resident?®YesQNo UITY tJF PALO ALT~. CA CITY ©LERK'S OFFICE' Do you have any relatives or members of your household who are employed by the City of Palo Alto, who are currently serving on the City Council, or who are Commissioners or Board Members? OvesfbNo Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for? .. es 0 No California state law requires appointed board and commission members to file a detailed disclosure of their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest (Form 700). Do you have an investment in, or do you serve as an officer or director of a company doing business in Palo Alto which you believe is likely to: 1) engage in business with the City; ~JllJ;Gtt ... /(L>/.1-Z.&"f!. Jl,~IA""I~ }r-'fh::;8-J"Tf?L-14 ' 2) provide products or services for City projects; or .M:>,vE 3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? eves QNo Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property in Palo Alto? 8'ves0No How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Historic Resources Board? §Community Group §Daily Post Email from City Clerk City Website Palo Alto Weekly Flyer other: IHtJfJ@az PF Jf-1212 '[1Jll-7-f? 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What is it about the Historic Resources Board that is compatible with your experience and of specific interest to you, and why? -ffV0/!3/J Jli?>t:;fZJG---PA-JZ..»t ff'Pf,J~JY7 W/--rli.E A-I V!Vll/, ~~btV -oµ.6 op my J,)tf?P-y Fl~ p,ttNG-cr-> ;;v fl A-IN 1q1e JUk-& "JO A-ov '}.,JV!) /=uz Jb;;IJJ{/!7JV /0 Jflk/T J-r}!f",Mf/~J?PZo/ 7 llz;V¢; If/ 3/C( ktJlllf7t?/V · ltV f1!.!,w£347az-//I~ 2. Please ~escribe an issue that recently came before the Board that is of particular interest to you and de~cnbe why you are interested in it. If you have never been to a Board meeting you can view an archive here: LINK. k/P /Z~Ui\rf~'-/ IAW!~c?O J11VOJrl~~ Tu-~ 1/lrfl,,-&JJ"/ ~T~., Tf:f!-? I-? PJlPEJJ:rf}J..,l.f Ir.¥ lrt-1(20 IJY'h~ k/p MV~ ~ fiT /7ikv? T/7P-ffel7 Vl<P-111y ·r~- 3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Historic Resources Board achieve and why? How would you suggest accomplishing this? ' ~ll!Wlf ~ 4c?fri.-~ 1;v~<7J~ PV{jy1~JJW/A-JZ~ tr--JI) f3 l/7t Z..vG. tl{Z j{pt?P; ;v6t ffJJ4} p;;;;:-1iJ?t2-;!V67 /Jiqf,$Z l D f l/2.VC"rvt2--t7~ - 4. Please .identify a project or projects that you find to be examples of good historic architecture and explam why. You may attach samples, identify project addresses, or provide links. If ' you attach samples, staff may request that you bring hard copy print outs to the interviews . .--Affiw f1PJWJN6' gv,z.T A:/ZL51.>'ND RPUC!Z/ WAP6.t:.e>o1 -r1~/ ~1A!i12A'-'PA--2.b/2- f11PfJJr1eo PE?1~v 11-1 5v~a~7TGJJ Py ./1,JUO ;a~e~-;; - -fJJ/1-JiV lJ/#P.4RY fll?-71&/V r.t¢. 57f2.VCTV!Z14z.,, '?t>PPCIZ> ~?; WH~ Kt:rl?ciJ ;t-7 ~4>~ l.7'-f H1?-8 - 5. Hi~toric R~sources Board Members work with the documents listed below. If you have experience ~1th any of.these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with these documents 1s not required for selection. V Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element LINK V Palo Alto Municipal Code Chapter 16.49 LINK v v Se?r~tary of the Interiors Standards for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring, and Reconstructing Historic Buildings LINK California Environmental Quality Act LINK Page 2 Historic Resources Board Consent to Publish Personal Information on the City of Palo Alto Website California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, ''No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first obtaining the written permission of that individual." The full code is attached. This consent form will not be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City's website. The full code can be read here: LINK Read the code, and check only ONE option below: • I give permission for the City of Palo Alto to post to the City's website the attached Board and Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alto City Clerk. OR 0 I request that the City of Palo Alto redact my home address, phone numbers, and email address from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City's website. I am providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact information instead. Address: Cell Phone: ~ftl --ei:J~/ 'V5/f~ QHome t@Office Phone: blJP ':f-Z,g /tJ~ E-mail: Page 3 Historic Resources Board Planning and Transportation Commissio'1rl\PF1[~~l~~~. Personal Information GfTY CLERK'S OFFl~A Name: C :fa,1'1 Cf SchM tdf' 14 SEP 25 PH 2: 02 Address: ;;. Lj 'j /-0Ye51 Ave Cell Phone: · ~Home 1,QOffice Phone: 3;2;J :2., 15'..! + E-mail: J 4/v/ e.f7) ~ C:Ohq:t?/, r)e/ Are you a Palo Alto Resident? (JJ/ves QNo Do you have any relatives or members of your household who are employed by the City o!.falo A~ who are currently serving on the City Council, or who are Commissioners or Board Members? UYes }o/No Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for? 9f) YesO No California state law requires appointed board and commission members to file a detailed disclosure of their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest (Form 700). Do you have an investment in, or do you serve as an officer or director of, a company doing business in Palo Alto which you believe is likely to: 1) engage in business with the City; 2) provide products or services for City projects; or 3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? Qves ©No Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property in Palo Alto? Oves~No How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Planning and Transportation Commission? Ocommunity Group 0Email from City Clerk 0Palo Alto Weekly 0Daily Post ~City Website 0Flyer Other: _____________________________ _ List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional registration: r ~..f-i_ /. U. , Bii vii 'P 11c, n y t/ /1Sl> Col11A}1a_ · f/, j) f/0Y1~ _s'~i:e_ I Employment R!iJfr.~ Present or Last Employer: 5~n ~ ;e. 5-/CifJt Occupation: fdJrq_ r41 jh tecffr Describe your involv~ent in community activities, volunteer and civic organizations: /1~1 'L;ff.a.;, 'ruc'ft~ G:;,.,iss/on /J~, (;JA AJv1ro~ Co1'11111tee, ~~ Be'11cl . VV/l jt;r:~ fi-111 ( ffee fo_<Lf t ~"' cliuit,. · 1' H-'1 ~. of +J,.e, L~YctrtJ .Q j_. ~ ~/1~ ~ Page1 ~ r y ej"/ CtR/J1/I; I ,f L/T/ Planning & Transportation Commission 1. What is it about the Planning and Transportation Commission that is compatible with your experience and of specific interest to you, and why? 2. Pleas~t>e'an issue that recently came before the Commission that is of particular interest to you and describe why you are interested in it. If you have never been to a Commission meeting you can view an archive here: LINK. /W1~~ t:;~~,ft}j!JGl;~!Pj1'~ Z!oYJl'!j 3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Planning and Transportation Commission achieve, and why? How would you suggest accomplishing this? ~pa:..r~ ~~·-/frrCdhf-f~ ~ ~~dlvJ/cd~~Y- 4. Planning and Transportation Commission Members work with the documents listed below. If you have experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with these documents is not required for selection. Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan LINK Zoning Code LINK City Charter LINK California Environmental Quality Act LINK El Camino Real Design Guidelines LINK El Camino Real Master Plan Study LINK and Appendices LINK Area Plans such as the South of Forest Avenue (SOFA) I and II Plans LINK Baylands Master Plan LINK Page2 Planning & Transportation Commission Consent to Publish Personal Information on the City of Palo Alto Website California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, "No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first obtaining the written permission of that individual." The full code is attached. This consent form will not be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City's website. The full code can be read here: LINK Read the code, and check only ONE option below: ~ I give permission for the City of Palo Alto to post to the City's website the attached Board and Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alto City Clerk. OR 0 I req1.Jest that the City of Palo Alto redact my home address, phone numbers, and email address from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City's website. I am providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact information instead. Address: Cell Phone: 0 Home I 0 Office Phone: E-mail: Signature: Page3 Planning & Transportation Commission