HomeMy WebLinkAboutPLNG - Review #3 - SE-2025-011 - Planning Comment Letter
September 15, 2025
Permit: Special Even Permit #SE-2025-011 (Moon Festival)
Project Location: 19469 Steven’s Creek (Main Street Cupertino Shopping Center)
Applicant: Annie Chen, World Journal
PLANNING DIVISION REVIEW #3 COMMENTS
Additional information/redline changes are required. Any changes to the drawings or calculations
require a delta-revision cloud bubble around the changes and a date stamp indicating when the
changes were made.
Please provide a written response clearly addressing each item and indicate where items are located on
the plan set. Re-submittal without a response letter will be considered incomplete
1. Previous Comment Not Addressed: Written Description of Event: Please include in your
description all activities, performers, musicians, food service and alcohol service that is
planned. Provide your schedule of performers listing the type of performer and their time slot.
RESPONSE______________________________________________________________________
2. Previous Comment Not Addressed: Provide a Traffic Flow Plan: You can use a Google Maps
satellite image, if that is easiest, or any other plan that shows the street. On the plan, show how
traffic will circulate through the site once it enters from the driveways on Vallco Parkway or
Steven’s Creek Boulevard. Depict any drop off or loading areas for vendors to temporarily park
to set up their booths. Show the points where closures of the Main Street Cupertino streets or
driveways will occur.
The written description you provided and the site plan is not sufficient and instead we need a
plan showing traffic circulation. Please draw on the site plan that you provided arrows showing
the one-way circulation route in your description. Show how cars will circulate during the event
through Main Street Cupertino. Draw dots on the plan showing where traffic cones will be set
up and label which streets will be closed. Draw a box around the vendor loading and drop off
zones near the Garage (19500 Vallco) and main retail side. Label which driveways will be
closed. Show the locations of any individuals who will be directing traffic and provide the
hours that they will be stationed in those locations.
OFFICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
PLANNING DIVISION
CITY HALL
10300 TORRE AVENUE • CUPERTINO, CA 95014-3255
(408) 777-3308 • FAX (408) 777-3333 • planning@cupertino.org
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3. Previous Comment Not Addressed: Shift Portable Toilet Location: Is this portable toilet
located within a lane of traffic? If so, please shift it and the liquid trash container so it is within
the event area. The portable toilet should not exit into a lane of traffic.
RESPONSE______________________________________________________________________
4. Previous Comment Not Addressed: Cupertino Business License Required for Each Vendor at
the Event and Any Performers: Every vendor at the event must obtain a Cupertino Temporary
Event Business License (required for any entity earning money within the City limits). The fee
for the temporary event business license is currently $13.32 for each vendor if paid with a credit
card or $12.88 for each vendor if paid with a check.
Please have one person come in and pay for all of the Business Licenses at once.
Please contact the Business License Division directly to coordinate the submittal of these
permits at (408) 777-3221 or bl@cupertino.gov. Staff will need to wait to issue your permit until
all 34 vendors have submitted business licenses.
RESPONSE______________________________________________________________________
5. Previous Comment Not Addressed: Submit the Product Information and Anchoring Method
for All Tents: Please provide the product information for each of the different tents. You only
provided a written description, but we need the product information cutsheet. Label on your
plans the anchoring method for each individual tent (different tent sizes may need different
weights to anchor them and we need this information to check each one).
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6. Previous Comment Not Addressed: Will Alcohol be Served? Please confirm whether alcohol
will be served at this event. If so, please provide a One-Day Alcohol Beverage Control Permit by
contacting the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at (916) 419-2500 to obtain
the license for the event.
RESPONSE______________________________________________________________________
7. Previous Comment Not Addressed: Provide Evidence that Each Food Vendor or Any Entity
Serving Food Has Applied for a County Health Permit: Thank you for confirming that you
have submitted a Temporary Food Facility Permit from the Santa Clara County Health
Department. Please provide a copy of the final, issued Temporary Food Facility Permit for all
nine food vendors once the County has issued their permit. Any food vendor that does not
provide one will not be able to serve food at the event.
RESPONSE______________________________________________________________________
8. Previouse Comment Not Addressed: Depict Number of Tables and Chairs on your Booth
Map: Depict on your booth map that there will be 8 tables with 40 chairs. A written description
is not sufficient because we need to see exactly where it will be located and how closely spaced
they are.
RESPONSE______________________________________________________________________
9. If No Stage Will be Constructed Delete it from Your Booth Map: Your booth map depicts that
a stage will be constructed. If no stage will be proposed, then revise your booth map and delete
this label.
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Sincerely,
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Catherine Tarone
Planning Permit Technician
(408) 777-3297
catherinet@cupertino.gov