The Mountain View City council plans to reappoint incumbent Tina Pham and new member Shwetha Subramanian to the Environmental Review Commission at a council meeting on Dec. 9.
The appointments were decided after two rounds of voting during a more than hour-long interview meeting on Oct. 21 which covered land use, environmental review and new housing development.
The city clerk’s office received five applications for two open positions, which begin in January 2026 and last until Dec. 23, 2029.
Commissioner Joyce Yin will have served two terms by Dec. 31 and therefore is not eligible to apply for reappointment.
Pham, a senior engineer with the city of Palo Alto, was appointed to the commission in February after Chris Clark was elected to City council and vacated his seat on the commission.
“I understand how planning decisions can develop into real world projects,” Pham said.
Subramanian is a real estate development consultant. She said she was an Indian immigrant with experience in architectural and mass mixed-use development.
“I’m passionate about housing,” she said. “I bring that development perspective to the table.”
The Environmental Planning Commission is an advisory body to the City council which recommends plans related to environmental development and the General Plan. It consists of seven members.
“Im trying as much as possible to take as holistic of an approach and kind of a 30,000 foot view as possible,” Mayor Ellen Kamei said during the meeting.
