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EPC recommends City Council accept 2025 general plan annual progress report
Summary
Commissioners reviewed the 2025 General Plan Annual Progress Report, including completed trash-capture work and ongoing items (TDM ordinance, R3 zoning updates, precise-plan scheduling), discussed prioritization of long-standing action items, and voted 5-0 to forward the APR to Council.
The Environmental Planning Commission voted 5-0 on Feb. 18 to recommend City Council accept the 2025 General Plan Annual Progress Report and the General Plan Action Plan.
Associate Planner Vincent Quan and Advanced Planning Manager Eric Anderson presented the report, which catalogs action items tied to the city’s 2030 General Plan and summarizes progress. Staff noted one action item completed in 2025 (trash-capture devices) and reported that the city had installed over 180 full trash-capture devices and achieved the municipal regional permit’s 100% trash reduction target by June 20, 2025.
“The city has achieved the 100% trash reduction goal required by the municipal regional permit by 06/20/2025,” the presenter stated.
Staff described ongoing efforts including drafting a transportation demand management ordinance, updates to three zoning development standards (parking, neighborhood transitions, transit-oriented development), and tentative scheduling for the R3 zoning district update in 2026. Staff also said the city is reevaluating precise-plan work for the downtown and Moffett Boulevard areas in light of recently enacted state legislation (SB 79 and AB 130) that affects precise-plan timelines and content.
Commissioners discussed whether the general plan should be updated (it was adopted in 2012) and how to prioritize long-standing action items. Community Development Director Christian Murdoch explained that amending the general plan is an authority of City Council and that the APR action items are program-level activities, not a staff workplan. Commissioner Cranston urged Council and staff to consider removing items that are unlikely to be implemented to free staff capacity for higher-priority work.
Commissioner Cranston moved, and Commissioner Subramanian seconded, a motion that the EPC recommend City Council accept the 2025 General Plan APR. The motion passed 5-0.
