Director's Report OFFICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
CITY HALL
10300 TORRE AVENUE • CUPERTINO, CA 95014-3255
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Subject: Report of the Cornmunity Development Director�
Plaruling Commission Agenda Date: Tuesday, Apri127, 2010
The City Council met on Apri120, 2010 and discussed the following item(s) of interest to the
Planning Commission:
i 1. 2010-11 fee schedule - Council voted to include no general increase in fees except for non-
residential fees, enterprise golf fees, and a reduction of building fees for small
residential additions, home swimming pool demolitions, and window replacements.
2. Historic Preservation - The City Council approved staff to move forward with a Historic
Preservation Policy and related General Plan amendments. Public hearings for the Planning
Commission and Council are tentatively set for May 11, 2010 and June 1, 2010 respectively.
3. CDBG - The City Council adopted the resolution to approve funding for the 2010-11
fiscal year.
4. Water Efficiency Landscape Ordinance - Council voted to approve, and conducted the 15t
reading of, the ordinance with the following change:
• Change the trigger point to 3,000 square feet for single #amily homes
Miscellaneous Items:
1. Monta Vista Park Air Monitoring Station - Attached is the notice inviting neighbors to
meet with BAAQMD and Cupertino staff on April 29� at 6:00 PM to talk about the
monitoring station.
2. �oint Meeting with SunnXvale Staff - On Apri121st, Sunnyvale and Cupertino staff inet
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to discuss best practices that would further enhance communication between the cities
on land use proposals which affect neighboring cities.
3. Mountain View Fee Hikes Article - Attached is a Mercury News article on Mountain
View's fee hikes.
4. Housing Element Update - Staff sent the Council approve�' ? Iousing E��ment to HCD
last week and is awaiting news.
Upcoming Dates:
Apri128 Lehigh Quarry Scoping Meeting, Community Hall, 6:30 PM
May 19 Plant Master Plan (San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant)
Community Workshop for Cupertino and West Valley cities, Cupertino
Community Hall, 6-8 PM
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Aqui Cal-Mex already thriving at new De Anza site
By Matt Wilson
mwilson@communitv-newsoaoers.com
Posted: 04/08/2010 08:06:15 PM PDT
Updated: 04/08/2010 08:06:16 PM PDT
Aqui Cal-Mex does not serve Mexican food. It's not a chain. Nor is it a typical sit-down restaurant.
The new restaurant at 10630 S. De Anza Blvd. is California fresh food with influences from the
Southwest, Latin America and Asia, says owner Dave O'Mara, who also has sites in San Jose and
Campbell.
O'Mara founded the business in 1994 when he challenged a longtime chef to create a fine dining
i experience in a quick counter service restaurant rather than a typical sit-down eatery.
"You don't dine at Aqui; you eat at Aqui. We're just there to make life a lot easier. If you don't feel
like cooking tonight, then we can be your kitchen," O'Mara said.
Each dish starts with seasonal herbs, produce and meats before the regional modern flavors
influence the dish. An emphasis is placed on fresh and organic foods.
"We do just like fine dining did in the 1980s; we mix a lot of flavors in fusion fashion," O'Mara said.
The restaurant offers a full bar and is known for its industrial strength margaritas.
"It will make your feet tingle," said 0'Mara.
Each Aqui restaurant has different daily specials and menus as well as a different theme and
aesthetic feel.
0'Mara brought in a feng shui specialist to give the Cupertino restaurant a unique feel. The
restaurant aesthetics feature water and fire pictures and iconography to match that feel.
Aqui moved into the De Anza Boulevard location for a below-market rate, said
O'Mara. The new Aqui restaurant will serve as a test site for some of the more unusual dishes on the
menu.
i"We wanted to take a chance and see whether more diverse food had appeal in the community," he
said.
The location has struggled with a string of restaurants opening and closing over the last few years.
The building's previous tenant, Harvest Restaurant, opened in January 2008 and closed just a year
later. .
O'Mara is ready for the challenge and admits the original Willow Glen location was a gamble at first.
"Aqui was outside the box when we first came in. It wasn't easy for community to find us, but we
got legs and we've had a good run there," he said.
O'Mara has no immediate plans to turn Aqui into a chain. He is keeping his business small to put an
emphasis on originality at each location.
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"I have no idea what we're going to do. We build by uniqueness, by the opportunity of the building
and whether or not we have a compatible quality chef we can work with," he said. "If we don't have
a chef we can build with, we're not building a restaurant."
In the future, O'Mara is considering a scaled-down Aqui in a downtown setting.
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Cupertino shorts: Fun festival planned for Earth Day
Silicon Valley Community Newspapers
Posted: 04/15/2010 11:00:00 PM PDT
Cupertino is holding 'film and fun' festival for Earth Day
The city of Cupertino's Earth Day Film and Fun Festival will be held April 17 at City Hall
Plaza on from 10 a.m. to Z p.m. The event is a day of education, celebration and call to
action to improve the environment.
The festival will feature more than 30 environmental partners. There will be on-site
demonstrations showcasing do-it-yourself home energy retrofits, home composting,
recycling, organic foods, gardening, renewable energy generation and electric vehicles. The
event will also host environmental films by Pixar and Disney, eco-friendly arts and crafts, a
� seedling swap and more.
Seniors can file for school tax exemption by May 31
Seniors 65 or over in the Fremont Union High School District can apply for an exemption
from the $98 annual parcel tax approved by voters in November 2004. The application
deadline is May 31.
Seniors who received an exemption for the 2009-2010 tax year will automatically be
exempt for the 2010-2011 tax year. This means those who have already received an
exemption don't have to do anything further.
For more information about the parcel tax senior citizen exemption, call the FUHD business
office at 408.522.2219 or 408.522.2213.
Monta Vista is looking for sandlot award nominations
Monta Vista High School seniors
and recent alumni are eligible to apply for the 2010 Justin Perkins Sandlot Award. The
award recognizes students for their ongoing community service a��� leadership.
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The award is open to current Monta Vista seniors or a graduates, classes of Z005 to 2010.
Applications must be received by 3:15 p.m. on April 29.
Contact Taba at 408.366.7618 for more detailed information.
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Cupertino looking at ways to make Memorial Park less desirable for geese
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By Matt Wilson
' mwilson communitv-newspapers.com
Posted:04/15/2010 08:03:56 PM PDT
Updated: 04/15/2010 08:03:57 PM PDT
Spring is here, and the city of Cupertino wants its most notorious warm-weather guests .to do their
"business" somewhere else.
The city is looking for ways to get the ducks and Canada geese at Memorial Park to move elsewhere
in an effort to minimize the amount of bird feces there.
The issue has been a thorn in the city's side for some time. At a Parks and Recreation meeting April
1, city staff and commissioners said the water fowl have been fouling up the park for far too long
and brainstormed ways to make the area less desirable for geese.
"It's so disgusting," said commissioner Debbie Stephens Stauffer. "The layers of feces are around
every pathway, bench, boulder, gate and fence. It's everywhere."
Ideas discussed included using nontoxic chemicals or dogs were to rid the park of the birds, as well
as implementing a public education campaign against feeding ducks bread,
IThe parks and recreation commission unanimously supported an increase in signage and educational
fliers in the park urging visitors not to feed the birds. The commission suggested that the city add
new park signs to clearly inform park visitors not to feed the animals. In the park's gazebo,
educational fliers would explain why "people" food isn't healthy for birds.
City staff said feeding the fowl only encourages them to stick around and keep making a mess.
There are currently no penalties for park users who feed the geese and ducks.
The commission also supported the idea of using a non-toxic spray on the park's grassy areas that
would make the birds' food taste less appetizing. The spray is not harmful to birds and humans, said
Mark Linder, director of parks and recreation.
A cost for the spray is unknown, but Linder told the commission that the cost would be ongoing as -
the turf would need to be treated with the spray repeatedly.
At 28 acres, Memorial Park is one of Cupertino's bigger and more heavilv used parks. The park, on
Stevens Creek Boulevard across the street from De Anza College, has two large pond areas, an
amphitheater, the Cupertino Veterans Memorial, a lighted softball field and is near the Quinlan
Community Center. Numerous spring and summer city events, such as the upcoming annual Cherry
� Blossom Festival, are held in the park.
According to staff, the large ponds, spacious grassy areas and ongoing problem of park users
feeding the birds all contribute to the problem.
"The pools look nice and clean, but it's impossible to walk through the grass. I think we should
seriously consider helping the [water fowl] move on," said commissioner Jeanne Bradford. "I think
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there will be a little bit of upset over that in the beginning, but when peopie realize how much more
usable the facility becomes, the fact that the ducks aren't there anymore will wane away."
Stauffer said a recent trip to the park with her children literally brought the problem home.
"Now my van is covered with the feces from the wheels of the tires and it's on their shoes, it's on
our car, it's in our house. It's a horrible problem. We have to bring special blankets to sit down on if
we want a snack. We have to constantly wash our hands," she said. "I can't tell you how many
parent groups don't do activities there because of the level of the problem it is. Something much
more intense needs to happen beyond education and signage."
Linder also suggested the city hire businesses that specialize in persuading geese to migrate. One
such business brings dogs into parks to scare geese away. The council will review options to rid the
I park of the geese and ducks during the city's 2010-2011 budget deliberations in May.
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