Eric Crutchlow
CA · Chair, Santa Clara Planning Commission
Chair of the Santa Clara Planning Commission, where he has served since 2023, and a cybersecurity product manager at Lumen Technologies. His priorities are maintaining city assets and pausing new data center construction.
Where Eric Crutchlow stands, based on their records
Opposes
Housing Affordability (1 record)
Track record
Track record — Housing Affordability
Housing Affordability · 1 oppose
On the Planning Commission, made the motion recommending a zoning cleanup that changed single-family home setbacks to match city design guidelines; it passed 5-2. He also voted to recommend that the City Council not adopt a local law letting homeowners sell backyard units (ADUs) separately from the main house under state law AB 1033; that passed 6-1.
May 22, 2024Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: santaclara.legistar.com
Track record — General
General · 4 records
Voted no on a Charter Review Committee motion backing the council's choice to drop proposed changes to Measure R and to the police chief's duties from the charter update. It passed 8-2.
June 17, 2026
Source: santaclara.legistar.com
Was elected chair of the Santa Clara Planning Commission by a 5-2 vote. At the same meeting he made the motions recommending the Related Santa Clara 'Scheme C' land-use changes. His version removed data centers as an automatic use and required a Planning Commission permit for every data center; it passed 7-0.
June 11, 2025
Source: santaclara.legistar.com
Voted against denying a permit and height and parking exceptions for a new four-story data center at 1231 Comstock Street. The commission denied the project 4-3.
October 23, 2024
Source: santaclara.legistar.com
Voted to recommend that the City Council approve Santa Clara's Downtown Precise Plan and its environmental report, and made the motion on the related General Plan change. Each vote passed 6-0.
October 25, 2023
Source: santaclara.legistar.com
Past race Eric Crutchlow ran in:
- Member, City Council, District 3 · November 3, 2026 · Santa Clara city, California