PC 04-09-63
10321 SO. SARATOGA-S~nfYVALE ROAD
~52-4505
C I T Y 0 F CUP E R TIN 0
CUPERTINO, CALIFOìL~IA
MINUTES FOR THE ADJOUHNEDMEETING OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION, April 9,
1963
ROLL CALL: COITmissioners Present: Adamo, Fitzge~ld, Frolich, Leonard,
Rampy> Small, Snyder
Commissioners Absent: None
The Chairman ca1léd the meeting to order and turned it over to
Georg~ Volker, the Planner.
Mr. Volker presented two Sketch Plans, No. 1. and No.2. He
explained the background for the sketch plans, and assumptions made
to date. The 4,600 acres of 3.6 dwellings per gross community acre
actually eXists today. By 1985 the City will need. to provide 1200
acres for low density, ~.9 per gross community acre. 950 acres .
will be in high density, or 14 units per gross acre. The higher
density would be concentrated in the center of the'community, with
the lowest on the outer fringes. This would tend to give the city
identity.
The biggest difficulty the Planner found to be. in finding enough
acreage for the higher density development and projected industrial.
Plan 1 shows 500 acres, and Plan 2 provides 720 acres of industrial
land. The Plan has not gone into any details on neighborhood shopping
centers, but has indicated commercial activity on the south side of
Junipero Serra freeway. ~ire stations, and neighborhood parks, etc.
will come under a neighborhood analysis.
Commissioner Fitzgerald requested that the 30 and 50 acre
high school sites be included on the Plans. He noted that industrial
expanded up to the boundary· line of Idlewild tract, and wondered if
this might be better in the Monta Vista area, west of the railroad
tracks.
Commissioner Leonard said that he had recently learned some
interesting things from meetings held by Var:l.an planners with home-
owner groups. Residents felt they liked commerc:J.al least, and were
against multiple next to them, Th€Ypreferred offices, facing them,
rather than backert up to residences, also preferred two story offices
over one story multiple.
Commissioner Fro1ich pointed out that the higher density multiple
area shown is already in fairly recent homes. He felt that a develop-
er seeing the Sketch Plan might feel it an· encouragement for a high-
density development. He felt certain there would be many uprisings
over anything but R-1' s around higher priced existing tracts.
Commissioner Leonard pointed out that there seemed to be a lot
of logic in the plans, as looked at 10, 20, 30 Or 11·0 years away. An
area bound by freeways, as this will be, is logically a high density
area.
Ka1 Platt pointed out that the housing market in this area indi-
cates an increase in the density of development. CUpertino is between
two expanding areas, the peninsula and San Jose. An analySis of build-
ing permits shows a great increase in multiples versus single family.
Commissioner Small considered that l~ units per acre on 950 acres
would yield apprcXimately 39,000 people, and wondered if that should
be our goal. Mr. Vo1ke¡' answered that pressures of employment and
economics would force the higher density.
The Commissioners expressed their concern in presenting the plan
to the public, and were certain there would be Inuch opposition.
Mr. Warner Wilson, 10237 Creston, Cupertino, had a few comments.
He told the Commission that Cupertino is 30 to 35% developed, and
people from Sunnyvale may look for housing in Cupertino, that because
the City is late to develop, it is bound to become densely populated.
Cupertino is centrally locatad and accessible. He also pointed out
that the area will have twice as much commercial activity as an isola-
ted area might have. Mr. Volker said this had been considered.
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Commissioner Sml...1.1 wondered about zoning R-..' s when high density
is being considered. He felt selling high den:3ity to Cupertino's
citizens might be a jobo
Commissioner Leonard gave the background for some of the industri··
a1 development further up the peninsula, pointing out that what makes
a good indUstrial area is the nearness to home, reducing drivin¡< time,
adding that Mountain View solved their problems by going all r.igh
density.
Mr. Volker told the Commission that by waiting until the need
arises to plan for it, the C~Lty will be forced to accept high density
scatteratl.ons.
Commissioner Fro1ich stated that
protesting 1.f multiples had to be put
now :tn order to reach a goal in 1985.
a1 to multiple.
he might be sympathetic to those
next to single family dwellings
He preferred more light inaustri-
Commissioner Leonard felt the transition could be made, and that
perhaps the Planning Commission might have to be more critical in
granding R-1 zoning, because to do so. might be an injustice to those
people moving in. He added that the City is faced with a lot of sub-
divisions in the wrong place.
It was requested
maP for a small area.
mu;1tiple.
that the Planner show the appearance of a zoning
It was pointed out that Sunnyvale shows no
The .Commission decided to hold another meeting before planning
to meet with Council.
Mr. Volker told the Commission it would require 4 weeks to pre-
pare a preliminary plan after approval of a sketch plan.
Commissioner Small moved that the meeting be adjourned to
April 15 at 7: 00 in the Confer'ence Room of the C1ty Hall. Seconded
by Commissioner Fitzgerald. All in favor,
/3/ Cha.rles Ko Snyde~, Chairman'
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ATTEST:
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Lawrence K.
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~~rtin, City Clerk
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