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Town attorney outlines how decades of voter measures shape town‑center rules
Summary
Deputy town attorney Kai Ruiz summarized the history and substance of several voter measures — notably Measure J — and planning staff described how those measures were implemented in the municipal code, including one‑story and height limits on parcels adjacent to Woodside Road and a 5,000 sq ft cap for public buildings on the former PG&E site.
Deputy Town Attorney Kai Ruiz reviewed the legal history that frames the Town Center Area Plan update, telling the Community Advisory Committee that voter action dating to the 1970s and 1980s still constrains development in central Woodside.
Ruiz said Measure J, adopted by voters in November 1988, contains three central restrictions: it preserves three residential parcels inside the TCAP as residential-only, it allowed the former PG&E parcel to be used for a…
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