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SJ: Require Key Stakeholder Groups for Expertise

Take 30 seconds by 8pm on August 26, 2025, to use the form below to tell the San Jose City Council to require the Planning Commission to hold deliberate panel input sessions with key stakeholder groups for the General Plan 4-year Review. Your emails to the Planning Commission two weeks ago had an impact, so please consider sending another email to have additional impact.

On August 26, 2025, the City Council will consider a proposal to replace the broad-based, cross-sector Task Force with the smaller, less representative Planning Commission. To make up for this reduction, the Council should require that staff identify key stakeholder groups so the Planning Commission can hold deliberate panel input sessions with those stakeholder groups. Here is a list of the Task Force members for the second General Plan review. Here is a list of current Planning Commission members. The General Plan represents the official policy regarding where new development may occur, and it assesses the amount, type, and phasing of development needed to achieve the City’s social, economic, and environmental goals. The Task Force was created to assist with General Plan updates. Key stakeholder groups can fill in the gaps created by the replacement of the Task Force for the third Four-Year review cycle.

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    TEXT OF YOUR EMAIL

    Subject line: [your-name] [your-zip] – 8/26/25 Item 10.2: GPT25-002 – General Plan Text Amendment

    Dear San Jose City Council,

    Regarding the proposal to replace the broad-based, cross-sector Envision San José 2024 General Plan Four-Year Review Task Force (Task Force) with the smaller, less representative Planning Commission: To make up for this reduction in expertise, the Council should require that staff identify key stakeholder groups so the Planning Commission can hold deliberate panel input sessions with those stakeholder groups. Key stakeholder groups can fill in the gaps created by the replacement of the Task Force for the third Four-Year review cycle.

    [Your personal message will be included here]

    Please also consider incorporating language to ensure the use of the Planning Commission, instead of the Task Force, is an exception rather than a default.

    Sincerely,
    [your-name]
    [your-zip]

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