CC 01-17-2024 Item No. 11 Application for seven-unit townhome developmentCC 1-17-2024
Item No. 11
Application for seven-unit
townhome development and
environmental review - 10046
Bianchi Way
Written Communications
From:Peggy Griffin
To:City Council
Cc:City Clerk; Luke Connolly; Danielli@cupertino.org
Subject:2024-01-17 City Council Mtg, Agenda Item 11 - Bianchi Way Project
Date:Thursday, January 11, 2024 10:12:37 AM
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Dear Mayor Mohan and City Council Members,
I want to encourage you to please go visit Bianchi Way and the area where this project will be constructed. Go at
several different times a day to see the issues the current disabled residents face on a day-to-day basis. Please make
time to do this.
Please contact and speak (in person preferably) to the disabled resident (man) who came to the Planning
Commission meeting and spoke on behalf of all the disabled residents. Their addresses are on the Public Comments
attachment.
All these housing bills were meant to help people who can’t afford housing but at what cost when it impacts some of
the very people it is supposed to protect?
Also, when you go to the site area, look at the sidewalk, the street parking, how it is used.
-Can the sidewalk be required to be double wide?
-Can it be re-done to fix the issues?
-Can the street parking be permit-only for the disabled residents only?
Seems reasonable since the developer of this project doesn’t see a need to provide visitor parking at all! They must
not need it.
You have the power to make a difference. Please do so on behalf of these disabled residents. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Peggy Griffin
P.S. QUESTIONS:
1-Can you require a detailed financial statement from the applicant showing the cost and the profit between a regular
project and their density-bonused project?
2-If it has been done, can it please be included in the materials?
3-If it has not, can it be requested as part of this review?
4-Why was it not considered under CEQA since this project has a direct impact on the disabled residents adjacent to
the project?
From:Connie Cunningham
To:Pamela Wu; City Council
Cc:City Clerk; Benjamin Fu; Luke Connolly
Subject:City Council Agenda Item 11. Seven-unit townhome application
Date:Tuesday, January 16, 2024 11:03:26 AM
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Dear Mayor Mohan, Vice Mayor Fruen, Councilmembers, and Manager Wu:
My name is Connie Cunningham, Housing Commissioner but speaking for myself only. I am,
also, an Audubon member, speaking for myself only. I am a 37-year resident of Cupertino.
I am pleased to see a housing project along Stevens Creek Blvd being considered for
Cupertino. I have two concerns:
1) It would be useful for the Staff Report to clarify what is “moderate” income and what is
“median” income, as they are both used in the Staff Report, but it is not clear what income
level is actually being implemented, nor how the affordable unit will be restricted to lower
income applicants.
2) It would be important for the report to address Cupertino's Bird Safe and Dark Skies
Ordinances,
*Excerpt from page 1 of staff report:
Under SB 330, a housing development project is generally subject only to the ordinances, policies,
and standards adopted and in effect when the preliminary application was submitted. (Gov. Code,
§ 65589.5(o).) SB 330 allows applicants to submit their project application within 180 days of their
preliminary application. In this case, the applicant submitted both on the same day.
*Bird Safe and Dark Skies Ordinances were adopted in 2021.
Excerpt from page 1 of staff report:
*On January 30, 2023, the applicant, Top Mission Realty & Investment, Inc., submitted
both a preliminary application under Senate Bill (SB) 3301 and a project application
Please ask that the Staff Report confirm that the Bird Safe and Dark Skies ordinances have
been addressed and will be included in this housing project since they were in effect before the
application for the project. Please ask that the Staff Report include details about how this will
be implemented. There are details about trees being removed, in detail. That level of detail
would be appropriate for Bird Safe and Dark Skies requirements.
I urge you address these two critical questions in your deliberations on January 17, 2024.
Sincerely,
Connie Cunningham
*all underlining and italics are mine