SC 07-18-19 PacketCITY OF CUPERTINO
AGENDA
SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION
4:00 PM
Environmental Education Center, 22221 McClellan Road
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Special Meeting
NOTICE AND CALL FOR A SPECIAL MEETING
OF THE CUPERTINO SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special meeting of the Sustainability Commission is hereby
called for Thursday, July 18, 2019, commencing at 4:00 p.m. in Environmental Education Center,
22221 McClellan Road, McClellan Ranch Preserve, California 95014. Said special meeting shall be
for the purpose of conducting business on the subject matters listed below under the heading,
“Special Meeting."
SPECIAL MEETING
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
1.
Draft Minutes 6.20.2019 Meeting
POSTPONEMENTS
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the commission
on any matter not on the agenda. Speakers are limited to three (3) minutes. In most
cases, State law will prohibit the commission from making any decisions with respect to
a matter not listed on the agenda
WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS
OLD BUSINESS
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July 18, 2019Sustainability Commission AGENDA
2.Subject: Discuss Green New Deal legislative efforts on the federal and state level
and consider making a recommendation to the City Council to sign a resolution in
support of H.R. 109 (Representative Ocasio-Cortez) and S. Res. 59 (Senator
Markey) and AB 1276 (Assemblymember Bonta)
Green New Deal Bill H.Res.109
Draft Cupertino Green New Deal Resolution
City Council 2019 Legislative Platform
3.Subject: Sustainability Speaker Series Planning
4.Subject: Discuss and select agenda topics for upcoming Sustainability Commission
meetings
5.Subject: Staff update on Buy Clean California Act policy development and Bay
Area low carbon concrete codes initiatives
NEW BUSINESS
6.Subject: Presentation on greenhouse gas emissions inventory metrics with
consultant DNV GL
STAFF AND COMMISSION REPORTS
ADJOURNMENT
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July 18, 2019Sustainability Commission AGENDA
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), anyone who is planning
to attend the next meeting who is visually or hearing impaired or has any disability
that needs special assistance should call the City Clerk's Office at 408-777-3223, 48
hours in advance of the meeting to arrange for assistance. Upon request, in advance,
by a person with a disability, meeting agendas and writings distributed for the meeting
that are public records will be made available in the appropriate alternative format.
Also upon request, in advance, an assistive listening device can be made available for
use during the meeting.
Any writings or documents provided to a majority of the members after publication of
the agenda will be made available for public inspection. Please contact the City
Clerk’s Office in City Hall located at 10300 Torre Avenue during normal business
hours.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please be advised that pursuant to Cupertino Municipal
Code 2.08.100 written communications sent to the Cupertino City Council,
Commissioners or City staff concerning a matter on the agenda are included as
supplemental material to the agendized item. These written communications are
accessible to the public through the City’s website and kept in packet archives. You are
hereby admonished not to include any personal or private information in written
communications to the City that you do not wish to make public; doing so shall
constitute a waiver of any privacy rights you may have on the information provided to
the City.
Members of the public are entitled to address the members concerning any item that is
described in the notice or agenda for this meeting, before or during consideration of
that item. If you wish to address the members on any other item not on the agenda, you
may do so during the public comment.
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CITY OF CUPERTINO SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION
Environmental Education Center 22221 McClellan Road
Thursday June 20, 2019 4:00 p.m.
MINUTES
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
At 4:05 p.m. Chair Weber called the meeting to order and led the Pledge of Allegiance.
ROLL CALL
Commissioners Present: Anna Weber, Gary Latshaw, Angela Chen, Meera Ramanathan (arrived @ 4:11 p.m.).
Absent: Vignesh Swaminathan
Staff: Gilee Corral, Acting Sustainability Manager; Holly Kimura-Carlin, Climate Corps Fellow
Guests: Bruce Karney; Kunal; Gwyn Azar; Cupertino High School (CHS) Environmental Club members: Sanat
Singhal, Emily Fan, Lawrence Fan, Alice, Mukta, Calvin Anderson, Shiv Shah
1.APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Draft minutes of May 16, 2019 meeting were reviewed. Commissioner Chen moved and Commissioner
Latshaw seconded to approve the minutes. The motion carried unanimously with Commissioner
Swaminathan absent.
POSTPONEMENTS - None.
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
Bruce Karney passed out a handout about a planned event for Commissioners in the area.
Kunal spoke on behalf of a student, Nicole, to support the City adopting a fossil fuel divestment resolution
and a resolution to amend the City’s climate emergency declaration.
Shiv Shah on behalf of CHS Environmental Club spoke to support the City adopting a Climate Crisis Package
and a fossil fuel divestment resolution.
Calvin Anderson on behalf of CHS Environmental Club spoke to support the City adopting a Climate Crisis
Package and a fossil fuel divestment resolution.
Emily Fan on behalf of CHS Environmental Club spoke to support the City adopting a Climate Crisis Package,
a resolution to amend the City’s climate emergency declaration, and a fossil fuel divestment resolution.
Sanat Singhal on behalf of CHS Environmental Club spoke to support the City adopting a fossil fuel
divestment resolution and a resolution to amend the City’s climate emergency declaration.
WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS
2.SC 6-20-19 Written Communications
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Chair Weber noted the written communications attached to the agenda. Chair Weber reordered the agenized
items as follows: Item #3 moved to the end of the meeting.
NEW BUSINESS
4. Subject: Discuss Green New Deal legislative efforts on the federal and state level and consider
making a recommendation to the City Council to sign a resolution in support of H.R. 109
(Representative Ocasio-Cortez) and S. Res. 59 (Senator Markey) and AB 1276 (Assemblymember
Bonta)
Chair Weber opened Public Comment and the following individuals spoke:
Kanal spoke to support the CHS Environmental Club’s version of a Green New Deal (GND) resolution.
Sanat Singhal spoke to support the CHS Environmental Club’s version of a GND resolution.
Emily Fan spoke to support the CHS Environmental Club’s version of a GND resolution and of her desire for
the government to invest in sustainable technologies.
Gwyn Azar spoke in support of the GND resolution, noting a petition that was started in support and other
cities that have launched their own version of a GND or supported GND efforts.
Calvin Anderson spoke in support of a GND resolution that satisfies the criteria in the CHS Environmental
Club’s version of the resolution.
Chair Weber closed Public Comment and the Commission discussed the GND resolution issue:
• Commissioner Latshaw asked for clarification from the students on what they were proposing and
Emily Fan clarified their request.
• The Commissioners discussed the possibilities, including supporting the federal and state GND efforts
while encouraging more aggressive GND efforts.
• Commissioners expressed concerns: having enough time to review the resolutions before
recommending support to City Council, risks of taking an aggressive stance and not following through,
ensuring this legislative advocacy is in sync with the City Council’s legislative priorities.
Discussion to be continued to the July meeting. Each Commissioner will research the related state and federal
bills in preparation for the discussion.
5. Subject: Staff overview of Climate Action Plan metrics
Chair Weber opened Public Comment and the following individual spoke:
Bruce Karney spoke in favor of conducing annual greenhouse gas emissions inventories and switching the
City’s emissions reduction target from an absolute target to a per capita basis, including the resident
population plus daytime worker population in the per capita metric. He noted that $7.5 million was added to
the budget for sustainability activities in Mountain View.
Chair Weber closed Public Comment and Commissioners asked Karney clarifying questions.
Staff presented an overview of the Sustainability Division’s Climate Action Plan metrics and answered
Commissioners’s questions related to the presentation.
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6.Subject: Sustainability Speaker Series planning
Chair Weber opened Public Comment and the following individual spoke:
Sanat Singhal talked about gearing a speaker event to the youth and advertising more effectively.
Chair Weber closed Public Comment and the Commissioners asked Singhal clarifying questions.
Commissioners discussed Singhal’s suggestions and how to better target a speaker event to a younger
audience. Commissioner Latshaw suggested inviting climate activist Greta Thunberg to speak and the
Commissioners discussed this option. The Commissioners agreed to invite Bea Johnson to speak for the first
event in early fall. Discussion to be continued to the July meeting.
7.Subject: Discuss and select agenda topics for upcoming Sustainability Commission meetings
The Commissioners discussed the possibility of moving the August meeting date; staff will contact
Commissioner Swaminathan to confirm his attendance for the August meeting. Discussion to be continued to
the July meeting.
OLD BUSINESS
3.Subject: Update on Buy Clean and Consider Resolution Language
Chair Weber moved and Commissioner Ramanathan seconded to move the Buy Clean update to the July 18th
Commission meeting. The motion carried unanimously with Commissioner Swaminathan absent.
Commissioner Chen left at 6:01 p.m.
STAFF AND COMMISSION REPORTS
Commission updates: None.
Staff updates:
-Gilee Corral will be out of town for the August Commission meeting.
- Fall Festival – September 14th
-Silicon Valley Clean Energy is launching a heat pump water heater rebate program soon.
-Electric vehicle solar project was not included in the adopted budget and will be discussed separately
at a future Council meeting.
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Resolution for a Green New Deal
A Resolution by Cupertino City Council calling for the federal government
to pass a Green New Deal.
WHEREAS, Cupertino City Council wants the children and grandchildren of this community
protected from the risks of climate destruction;
WHEREAS, on April 22, 2016, world leaders from 175 countries recognized the threat of
climate change and the urgent need to combat it by signing the Paris Agreement, agreeing to
keep warming “well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and to “pursue efforts to limit the
temperature increase to 1.5°C,”
WHEREAS, President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement in 2017;
WHEREAS, an October 2018 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) report, criticized by many leading climate scientists as overly conservative, predicts that
we have only until 2030 to limit devastating global warming and avoid a climate change
catastrophe;
WHEREAS, the October 2018 IPCC report also makes clear that every bit of warming matters,
so every fraction of a degree less of warming will save lives and pay dividends across the
world’s economies;
WHEREAS, the world is already experiencing serious, costly, and increasing impacts from
climate change, including more intense storms, unprecedented flooding, droughts, and
persistent wildfires. The latter two which has already made an impact on our community.
Droughts have caused a drier and more barren landscape, as well as threatened our water
supply. Wildfires have more recently plagued our area, with record-breaking flames sweeping
our forests every year, causing millions in damages and displacing thousands of people;
WHEREAS, an inadequate response to climate change will increase economic and
environmental disruptions that threaten human life, healthy communities, and critical
infrastructure. These include, but are not limited to severe storms, longer and hotter heat
waves, worsening flood and drought cycles, growing invasive species and insect problems,
accelerated species extinction rates, rising sea levels, increased wildfires, and a dramatic
increase in refugees from climate impacted lands;
WHEREAS, the most negative impacts of climate change are generally falling on frontline
communities that are underrepresented, such as lower-income communities or communities of
color, are bearing the initial burden of climate change, but are least equipped to adapt to these
impacts;
WHEREAS, climate change and the global economy’s overshoot of ecological limits are driving
the sixth mass extinction of species, which has caused a 60% decline in global wildlife
populations since 1970, could devastate much of life on Earth for the next 10 million years, and
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may pose as great a risk to humanity as climate change, according to the Intergovernmental
Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;
WHEREAS, restoring a safe and stable climate requires a whole-of-society “Climate
Mobilization” at all levels of government on a scale not seen since World War II to reach zero
greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors at emergency speed, to rapidly and safely
drawdown or remove all the excess carbon from the atmosphere, to end the 6th mass
extinction of species, and to implement measures to protect all people and species from the
increasingly severe consequences of climate change;
WHEREAS, doing what is now necessary to adequately address the climate crisis requires a
national mobilization of a scope and scale that is a historic opportunity to address inequities
caused and exacerbated by the fossil fuel economy as well as providing unprecedented levels
of prosperity and economic security for all people in the United States;
WHEREAS, the United States of America has disproportionately contributed to the climate and
extinction emergencies and has repeatedly obstructed global efforts to transition toward a
green economy, and thus bears an extraordinary responsibility to rapidly address these
existential threats;
WHEREAS, Cupertino City Council has declared a Climate Emergency on September 18, 2018
and demonstrated the City’s commitment to eliminating all citywide greenhouse gas emissions
as soon as possible;
WHEREAS, Senator Ed Markey and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released, on
February 7, 2019, a Resolution Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a
Green New Deal;
WHEREAS, federal Green New Deal legislation would create a detailed mobilization plan to:
●within a decade, achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through a fair and just
transition for all communities and workers;
●create millions of good, high-wage jobs and ensure prosperity and economic security
for all people of the United States;
●invest in the infrastructure and industry of the United States to sustainably meet the
challenges of the 21st century;
●secure for all people of the United States for generations to come:
○clean air and water;
○climate and community resiliency;
○healthy food;
○access to nature;
○and a sustainable environment;
●and promote justice and equity by stopping current, preventing future, and repairing
historic oppression of indigenous communities, communities of color, migrant
communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor,
low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and
youth;
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WHEREAS, local governments calling for the federal government to pass a Green New Deal
will demonstrate widespread popular support for necessary and just climate action and
Cupertino can act as a global leader by both converting to an ecologically, socially, and
economically regenerative economy at emergency speed, and by rapidly organizing a regional
just transition and climate emergency mobilization effort;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Cupertino City Council calls on the U.S. Government to,
as soon as possible, pass a Green New Deal based on H.R. 109 and S. Res. 59 "Recognizing
the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal," the Resolution released on
February 7, 2019 by Senator Ed Markey and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Cupertino City Council calls on the California State
Government to, as soon as possible, pass a Green New Deal such as the one proposed in AB
1276 introduced by State Assemblymember Rob Bonta;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, Cupertino commits to calling on higher levels of government to
provide all necessary financial and regulatory assistance in support of its efforts to end
citywide greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible and no later than 2030, to draw
down greenhouse gases, and to accelerate adaptation and resilience strategies;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, Cupertino commits to educating our residents about the climate
emergency and organizing and advocating for a just transition and climate emergency
mobilization effort at the local, regional, state, national, and global levels to provide maximum
protection for our residents as well as all the people and species of the world, for instance, by
publicizing Meatless Mondays and promoting community gardens throughout Cupertino;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, Cupertino underscores the need for full community
participation, inclusion, and support, and recognizes that the residents of Cupertino and
community organizations, faith, youth, labor, business, academic institutions, homeowners’
associations; environmental, economic, racial, gender, family and disability justice; indigenous,
immigrant and women’s rights organizations; and other such allies who will be integral to and
in the leadership of the mobilization effort;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, Cupertino calls on the State of California, the United States
Federal Government, and all governments and people worldwide to initiate an immediate social
and economic mobilization to reverse global warming and ecological overshoot that restores
near pre-industrial global average temperatures and greenhouse gas concentrations, to
immediately halt the development of all new fossil fuel infrastructure, to rapidly phase out the
use of fossil fuels and the technologies which rely upon them, to end greenhouse gas
emissions as quickly as possible, to initiate an effort to safely draw down the excess carbon
from the atmosphere, to transition to regenerative agriculture, to end the sixth mass extinction
of species, to protect and expand workers’ right to organize, and to create and guarantee
high-quality, high-paying jobs with comprehensive benefits for all those who will be impacted
by this emergency response; and
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, in furtherance of this resolution, Cupertino shall submit a
certified copy of this resolution to Senator Diane Feinstein, Senator Kamala Harris,
Congressman Ro Khanna, California State Senator Jim Beall, and California Assemblymember
Evan Low, and request that all relevant support and assistance in effectuating this resolution
be provided.
CERTIFICATION
The foregoing resolution was adopted by __________________ in ______________ on
________________ with a quorum present.
Signed by: ________________________________
Attest: ____________________________________
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City of Cupertino 2019 Legislative Platform
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The 2019 Legislative Platform is comprised of guiding principles that provide a framework for
the City of Cupertino’s regional, state, and federal legislative priorities. Adopted annually, the
City’s Legislative Platform serves as a reference guide for legislative positions and objectives that
provides direction for the City Council, the Legislative Review Committee, and staff throughout
the year. The Legislative Platform is the foundation of a focused advocacy strategy.
Guiding Principles
I.Fiscal Responsibility
The City of Cupertino has a fiduciary responsibility to its residents to ensure assets and resources
are properly safeguarded and deployed in a fair, prudent, and efficient manner. As such, the City
supports the protection of existing federal, state, and local funding sources and the authorities
that provide revenues to the City. Likewise, the City has an interest in the solvency of public
entities that provide resources to the City. The City opposes any new mandates that are unfunded
or inadequately funded, and supports efforts to eliminate, or provide funding for currently
unfunded mandates.
II.Local Control
The City supports local decision-making authority and opposes preemption of local control.
Cities are voluntarily created by the residents of a community to provide local self-government
and to make decisions at a local level to best meet the needs of the community. Each community
has unique needs and characteristics that are best met by policies set by its local governing body.
Efforts to remove the ability to set policy at the local level should be opposed, while promoting
legislation that allows flexibility in the City's effort to cost-effectively meet local priorities.
III.Sustainability
The City of Cupertino is a leader in embracing sustainability efforts in response to current and
anticipated environmental challenges. The City continuously looks for innovative strategies to
reduce its carbon footprint guided by our Climate Action Plan (CAP). As such, the City supports
environmentally friendly legislation and urban sustainability consistent with our CAP goals.
IV.Infrastructure and Mobility
The City seeks to maintain existing infrastructure and enhance sustainable, alternative mobility
options for our residents and businesses to thrive. The City can accomplish this by supporting
legislation that increases funding for transportation, infrastructure, operations, and maintenance
in Cupertino.
V.Healthy and Safe Community
One of the City’s primary goals is to provide a healthy and safe environment for our residents.
The City supports legislation that protects and enhances services to the City’s most vulnerable
populations, such as the economically disadvantaged, elderly, homeless, and disabled. In
addition, the City supports federal and state assistance for local law enforcement, disaster
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preparedness, and emergency planning as well as any measures that would help contribute to
local public safety and mental well-being such as support for parks and open spaces.
VI. Education
The City understands that access to quality education is a key factor in maintaining a strong and
vibrant community. The City supports state efforts to ensure that California schools have
adequate funding to ensure that every child has access to a quality education and all schools have
the personnel and materials needed to create an environment where children can succeed.
City of Cupertino - 2019 Federal Legislative Priorities
LOCAL AUTHORITY
1. Oppose preemption of local authority.
2. Oppose new program mandates that are unfunded or
underfunded.
TRANSPORTATION &
INFRASTRUCTURE
1. Support adoption of a long-term federal transportation
authorization that provides a stable and reliable funding
stream for transportation with focus on maintenance and
preservation, and funding for roads, bridges, and transit.
2. Support legislation that generates funding to support all modes
of transportation, including transit, bicycles, and pedestrians.
3. Support legislation that generates funding for storm drain
capacity and maintenance projects.
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
BLOCK GRANT
(CDBG)
1. Support the preservation or increase of funding for the CDBG
program.
ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
1. Support amendments to the EB5 Visa Program to ensure that
investments are concentrated in target employment areas, such
as Qualified Opportunity Zones, that would most benefit from
economic development.”
LAND USE
1. Oppose legislation and regulatory efforts that would diminish
or eliminate the authority of cities to zone and plan for the
development of telecommunications infrastructure, including
the siting of cellular communications towers or transmission
sites.
EDUCATION 1. Support education funding to support special needs students.
HEALTH AND PUBLIC
SAFETY
1. Support legislation to provide services to those experiencing
domestic violence, addiction, or mental health issues, including
mental health services for youth.
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
1. Support legislation that assists regional and local governments
in development and implementing energy efficiency,
renewable energy, and conservation strategies. Ensure that
local governments can continue, and not be preempted in, their
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City of Cupertino - 2019 State Legislative Priorities
QUALITY OF LIFE
1. The City values its ability and authority to make policies
tailored to diverse local needs, enable excellent public services,
and protect and enhance the quality of life for Cupertino
residents and businesses.
2. Support legislation that would provide local funding for
libraries, arts and cultural expression in Cupertino.
3. Support legislation and initiatives that provide funding for
vibrant parks, trails, and visitor amenities.
4. Monitoring legislation that affects immigration and the rights
and benefits of immigrants.
5. Oppose legislation that includes unfunded or underfunded
mandates.
6. Oppose legislation that may reduce municipal authority, with
an emphasis on land use policy, local review, and design
standards.
ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
1. The City embraces efforts to support legislation or obtain
funding for economic development initiatives, including
planning and implementation of regional transportation and
traffic congestion relief projects, the creation of affordable
housing, and social services.
2. Work with elected representatives to secure funding through
the State Budget for priority projects and programs in the City.
3. Support legislation that would provide workers with a living
wage.
4. Oppose legislation that would increase local costs related to
public employee retirement.
5. Oppose legislation that limits the City’s ability to collect
Transient Occupancy Taxes.
6. Oppose legislation that would burden local rate payers with
increased state utility costs and mandates.
efforts to achieve economic improvements through increased
energy efficiency, renewable energy and conservation plans
that seek to decrease carbon emissions.
2. Advocate for funding for projects for potable water and reuse
projects, nonpoint source pollution control, and watershed
management. Accelerate authorization for indirect and direct
potable reuse projects. Support legislation that generates
additional revenue for water infrastructure improvements,
provides for the funding of programs mandated for
compliance, and addresses drought resilience.
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7. Monitor legislation that would provide local governments with
additional tax-increment based economic development tools,
such as Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts or tax
increment financing districts.
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
1. The City supports legislation and policies that emphasize
sustainable development, improve environmental standards
and the regulatory process, provide incentives and financial
support for preservation of natural resources, and promote
sustainable energy policies.
2. Support sustainability efforts that are consistent with the City’s
Climate Action Plan.
3. Support legislation that assists local governments in the
development and implementation of energy efficiency,
renewable energy, and conservation strategies.
4. Oppose legislation that would preempt local government
efforts to achieve economic improvements through increased
energy efficiency, renewable energy, and conservation plans
that seek to decrease carbon emissions.
5. Support increased funding for green buildings, electric vehicle
charging stations, and related infrastructure.
6. Support legislation to reduce plastic waste, such as plastic bags
and containers.
7. Oppose legislation that weakens environmental review policy
or CEQA.
8. Support legislation that expands, promotes, or incentivizes
water conservation practices and programs, including the
expanded use of local water resources such as recycled water,
graywater, and rainwater harvesting.
TRANSPORTATION &
INFRASTRUCTURE
REHABILITATION
1. The City supports legislation and policies that support and
fund transit solutions that increase the speed and frequency of
services.
2. Support new statewide funding opportunities for maintenance
and repair of local roads and highways.
3. Support investments in the maintenance and rehabilitation of
aging infrastructure and allow for system capacity expansion to
support smart growth principals.
4. Support legislation that allows for the planning of on-site
parking and other planning tools that can increase safety for
pedestrians and bicycles.
5. Support legislation that ensures cap and trade funds derived
from transportation fuels be used for transportation purposes.
6. Support legislation and initiatives to address regional
transportation congestion.
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7.Support legislation that generates funding for storm drain
capacity and maintenance.
8.Oppose legislation that limits or reduces local impact fees that
fund local infrastructure.
9.Oppose legislation that would impact local authority of cities to
zone and plan for the development of telecommunications
infrastructure.
HEALTH & PUBLIC
SAFETY
1.The City values public health and social services. The City
supports legislation and policies to access resources that
provide high quality police, fire, emergency management, and
emergency medical services.
2.Support legislation to provide services to those experiencing
domestic violence, addiction, or mental health issues, including
mental health services for youth.
3.Support legislation to provide funding and services for
vulnerable populations.
4.Support specific funding opportunities to address natural
disaster mitigation and evacuation planning.
5.Support legislation that allows for local ordinances related to
commercial and recreational drone usage.
6.Support legislation to regulate e-cigarettes and their packaging,
advertisement, and promotion to youth.
7.Support legislation to regulate the potency, packaging, and
advertisement of recreational cannabis products.
8.Oppose legislation that restricts the ability for the City to adopt
ordinances regarding the purchase, distribution, consumption
and cultivation of cannabis.
HOUSING &
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
1.The City acknowledges that California is currently facing
dramatic job-housing imbalance, severe income disparity and
lack of transit options to affordable areas. The rising cost of
housing is one symptom of the deeper economic problem,
which can only be solved by addressing the excessive job
growth, housing affordability, and lack of transit options
together. The City supports legislation that addresses the root
causes of these problems.
2.Support legislation that gives local municipalities credit and
incentives for actions under their direct control, including the
approval of housing developments.
3.Oppose efforts to erode local control over the appropriate
location, scale, and character of residential development or
that may reduce public hearing or oversight.
4.Support legislation that provides state funding for the
construction of affordable housing, including Extremely Low
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Income, Very Low Income, Low Income, and Moderate
Income housing.
5.Oppose legislation that would impact the ability of a local
municipality to regulate ADUs, including legislation that
would: allow for ADUs to be sold separately from the primary
residence, eliminate minimum/maximum lot sizes for ADUs,
and permit ADUs/JADUs without adequate sanitary facilities.
6.Support legislation that promotes the actual construction of
parks, affordable housing, and other community facilities,
instead of allowing in-lieu fees in place of actual facilities.
7.Support legislation to address issues that lead to gentrification,
the displacement of long-time residents, the lack of housing
for full-time students, and homelessness.
8.Monitor legislation that would impact the rental market and
tenant protections.
9.Oppose legislation that provides for by-right up-zoning.
10.Support legislation that requires employers to contribute to
the funding of affordable housing to keep pace with job
growth.
11.Support legislation to assert local authority to regulate the use
of public right of ways.
12.Oppose legislation that erodes the ability of cities to condition
and deny projects that inadequately mitigate impacts to the
community, including infrastructure, public safety, and
schools.
ELECTIONS
1.The City supports legislation that encourages and expands civic
engagement and voter participation in elections.
2.Oppose legislation that weakens voters’ right to petition
through the initiative and referendum processes.
3.Support legislation that provides resources and support for
municipal elections.
4.Monitor legislation that affects the California Voting Rights
Acts.
5.Monitor legislation that lowers the voting requirements for
passage of local special purpose agency funding propositions.
GOVERNMENT
TRANSPARENCY
1.The City supports government transparency, public access to
records, and legislation that facilitates these principles while
still allowing for necessary municipal operations and services.
2.Oppose legislation that impacts the ability of special districts
and joint powers authorities to self-regulate.
3.Oppose legislation that expands the Public Records Act without
funding to carry out the new requirements.
4.Support legislation that increases information provided to the
public through the Political Reform Act.
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City of Cupertino 2019 Legislative Platform
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5.Support legislation that improves the ability of local
governments to utilize digital communication and archiving.
EDUCATION
1.The City understands that access to quality education is a key
factor in maintaining a strong and vibrant community. The
City supports state efforts to ensure that California schools have
adequate funding to ensure that every child has access to a
quality education and all schools have the personnel and
materials needed to create an environment where children can
succeed.
2.Support legislation that ensures full funding of the State’s
Proposition 98 guarantee.
3.Support legislation that would increase funding for schools for
programs and salaries.
4.Support legislation that would amend the Leroy F. Greene
School Facilities Act to ensure that facilities funding is sufficient
to cover all costs of new facilities, including the acquisition of
land.
5.Support legislation that provides students access to educational
resources and technology needed to be prepared for higher
education or the modern workforce.
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