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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC 03-03-2026 Item No. 3 Active Transportation Plan_Written CommunicationsCC 3-3-2026 Active Transportation Plan Written Communications From: Venkat Ranaanathan To: Public Comments; City Council; Tina Kapoor Subject: ATP Purple Bike Lane Projects Date: Saturday, February 21, 2026 8:56:50 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor, Vice Mayor, and City Council, Thank you for your ongoing work and dedication to improving transportation and safety in Cupertino. I appreciate your commitment to fostering a vibrant, accessible community, and I recognize the complexities involved in balancing innovative transportation solutions with neighborhood needs. I hope my perspective contributes constructively to your decision -making process. In summary, I respectfully request the removal of the purple -marked bike lane projects listed in Attachment D of the Active Transportation Plan, specifically due to concerns regarding neighborhood parking, emergency access, and school safety. Projects requested for removal: - Homestead Road (buffered/separated bike lanes) - Stevens Creek Boulevard (separated bike lanes) - Stelling Road (buffered/separated bike lanes) - Blaney Avenue (buffered bike lanes) - Bollinger Road (buffered bike lanes) - Foothill Boulevard / Wolfe Road (separated bike lanes) - Bonny Avenue / Pepper Tree Lane - Mary Avenue / McClellan Road school routes Key concerns: - **Loss of curb parking:** The removal of on -street parking, particularly on residential streets such as Stelling Road and Blaney Avenue, would significantly affect seniors, visitors, caregivers, and delivery services. Alternatives for parking in these areas are limited, making the impact substantial for residents and guests. - **Emergency vehicle access:** The installation of concrete barriers for separated bike lanes, as proposed for corridors like Stevens Creek Boulevard and Foothill Boulevard, may restrict access for fire trucks and ambulances. This is especially concerning near the new Westport senior housing development and the De Anza medical clinic, where timely emergency response is critical. - **School safety and operations:** Modifications on Bonny Avenue and Pepper Tree Lane would disrupt drop-off and pick-up operations for more than 600 students attending Faria Elementary School, potentially impacting both safety and efficiency. It is my understanding that the City's own scoring criteria penalize projects that remove parking, yet these bike lane proposals appear to rely heavily on this approach. As such, they do not seem to meet the established evaluation standards. Suggested alternatives: Prioritize improvements in technology and commercial corridors. Enhance crosswalks and targeted school safety measures to improve mobility without compromising neighborhood access or emergency response. Engage the community in identifying solutions that address safety and accessibility collaboratively. I understand that finding the right balance between transportation enhancements and neighborhood needs can be challenging. I am happy to provide further input or participate in community forums to help shape solutions that serve all residents. Thank you again for your consideration and for your service to Cupertino. I look forward to your thoughtful review of these concerns and am available to discuss them further at your convenience. Sincerely, VenkatRanganathan From: Devayani Kukade To: Public Comments; City Council; Tina Kapoor Subject: Request to Remove All Purple Bike Lane Projects from ATP Date: Friday, February 20, 2026 1:26:50 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor Chao, and City Council, I am writing to formally express my opposition to the bike lane projects marked in purple within Attachment D of the Active Transportation Plan (ATP). These projects negatively impact parking, safety, and school access, and I respectfully request their removal. Specifically, I am asking for the removal of the following projects: • Homestead Rd (buffered/separated lanes) • Stevens Creek Blvd (separated lanes) • Stelling Rd (buffered/separated) • Blaney Ave (buffered) • Bollinger Rd (buffered) • Foothill/Wolfe (separated) • Bonny/Pepper Tree lanes • Mary/McClellan school routes My primary concerns include: • Loss of Residential Parking: The removal of curb parking will significantly impact elderly residents, guests, and deliveries on residential streets. • Emergency Vehicle Access: Concrete barriers may obstruct emergency vehicles, which is particularly concerning given the new Westport senior housing and De Anza clinic. • School Infrastructure: The proposed changes on Bonny and Pepper Tree would disrupt the drop-off process for over 600 students at Faria Elementary. The current scoring system acknowledges the negative impact of parking removal; I believe these projects fail to meet the necessary standards for approval. I encourage the Council to instead consider alternative safety improvements, such as technology corridors, enhanced crosswalks, and targeted school safety measures. Thank you for your time and for prioritizing the safety of our families and community. Sincerely, Devayani Kukade From: Mohsen Jamali To: Public Comments; City Council Subject: Opposition to proposed bike lanes that remove street parking Date: Friday, February 20, 2026 12:59:06 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Good evening Mayor and Councilmembers. I live in the Crescent Court / Crescent Road neighborhood. I'm here to oppose any proposed bike lanes that remove on -street parking. Street parking in our neighborhood is not excess capacity — it is essential infrastructure. Families, seniors, caregivers, and visitors rely on it daily. Removing parking will directly impact residents who already struggle during peak hours. If bike lanes can be added without eliminating parking, that's one discussion. But taking away parking from established neighborhoods is not the right solution. I also ask that you remove the stretch near Varian Park from this proposal. We do not want incremental steps that create pressure for future expansions. Please reject any project that eliminates residential street parking. Thank you. Mohsen Jamali From: Kalyan Tummala To: Public Comments; City Council; Tina Kagoor Subject: Urgent Concerns Regarding Proposed Bike Lane Projects Impacting School Access and Neighborhood Parking Date: Friday, February 20, 2026 11:38:25 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Clerk, Please include my email in written communications for the upcoming city council meeting. Dear Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor Chao, and Members of the Cupertino City Council, I am writing as a Cupertino resident and parent to respectfully express serious concerns about the proposed bike lane projects, particularly those affecting neighborhood streets such as Pepper Tree Lane, Bonny Drive, Shelly Drive, Rodrigues Avenue, and surrounding areas near Faria Elementary. I strongly support safe transportation and thoughtful infrastructure planning. However, the current proposals risk creating unintended and significant consequences for families, students, and neighborhood safety. Key Concerns: 1. Loss of Critical School Parking Many parents rely on street parking on Bonny, Pepper Tree, Shelly, and Rodrigues to safely park and walk their children to school. Removing this parking will eliminate the most practical and safe options currently used by families. Not all children can independently navigate drop- off lanes. Walking children to campus is especially important for younger grades and promotes safety, supervision, and community engagement. 2. Increased Traffic Congestion and Safety Risks If street parking is removed, parents will be forced into the existing drop-off line. For a school serving hundreds of students, this could mean 600+ vehicles funneling into a single queue during peak times. This will: • Increase idling traffic and congestion in surrounding streets • Create longer queues spilling into main roads • Increase risk of vehicle -pedestrian conflicts • Reduce emergency vehicle accessibility What is currently a distributed, manageable system will become centralized congestion. 3. Discouraging Walkability Ironically, eliminating neighborhood parking may reduce safe walking. Parents who currently park nearby and walk their children will instead be forced into vehicle queues. This undermines both walkability and community interaction. 4. Lack of School -Specific Planning If these changes move forward, what is the city's concrete plan for managing school access? • Has a school impact analysis been conducted during peak drop-off/pick-up times? • Has coordination occurred with school administrators and parents? • Is there a mitigation strategy to replace lost parking capacity? Without a clear operational plan, these changes risk creating chaos rather than improving safety. 5. Equity and Practical Use Considerations Neighborhood bike lanes that remove high -demand school parking may benefit a small number of cyclists during limited hours while disproportionately impacting hundreds of families daily. Infrastructure decisions must balance sustainability goals with real -world usage patterns and community needs. I respectfully request that the City: • Reevaluate bike lane placements on streets directly serving school parking needs • Conduct a school -specific traffic and safety impact study before final approval • Engage directly with affected school communities • Explore alternative bike routing options that preserve essential parking I support safe biking as a road biker myself. I support sustainability. But we also need solutions that protect school access, neighborhood safety, and the daily functioning of families. Please do not move forward with changes that significantly impact school operations without a clear, practical mitigation plan. Thank you for your consideration and for serving our community. Sincerely, Kalyan Tummala Resident and Parent From: Jithin Georae To: Tina Kapoor; Public Comments; City Council Subject: Request to Remove All Purple Bike Lane Projects from ATP Date: Friday, February 20, 2026 10:54:30 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor Chao, and City Council, I respectfully oppose the purple -marked bike lane projects in Attachment D. They harm parking, safety, and school access. Please remove them all. Projects to remove: • Homestead Rd buffered/separated lanes • Stevens Creek Blvd separated lanes • Stelling Rd buffered/separated • Blaney Ave buffered • Bollinger Rd buffered • Foothill/Wolfe separated • Bonny/Pepper Tree lanes • Mary/McClellan school routes Key concerns: • Curb parking lost for elders, guests, deliveries on residential streets. • Emergency vehicles blocked by concrete barriers, especially with new Westport senior housing and De Anza clinic. • Faria Elementary drop-off disrupted for 600+ kids on Bonny/Pepper Tree. Your scoring system penalizes parking removal. These projects fail that test. Better options: Technology corridors, crosswalks, school safety measures. Request: Please delete all purple bike lanes from the ATP. Thank you for prioritizing families and safety. Sincerely, Jithin George, Parent of Faria Kid (Cupertino resident on Homestead/Blaney) From: Ravi Kiran Sinah Sapaharam To: City Council; Public Comments Cc: Tina Kapoor Subject: Request to Reconsider Purple Bike Lane Projects in ATP Date: Friday, February 20, 2026 10:34:52 AM Dear Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor Chao, and Members of the Cupertino City Council, I am writing as a Cupertino resident to respectfully request reconsideration of the purple bike lane projects While I support roadway safety improvements, several of these proposals raise concerns regarding residential parking loss, school drop-off logistics, traffic congestion, and emergency vehicle access — particularly along Homestead, Stevens Creek, Stelling, Blaney, Bollinger, Foothill, Wolfe, Bonny, Pepper Tree, and the Mary/McClellan school routes. Many families rely on curbside parking near homes and schools, and maintaining reliable emergency access along key corridors is critical. I encourage the Council to carefully weigh these community impacts before advancing these projects. I respectfully suggest prioritizing alternatives that enhance safety without reducing parking or travel lanes — such as crosswalk upgrades, traffic calming measures, and school -area safety improvements. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Ravi I Cupertino Resident Ravi Kiran Singh Sapaharam Public Safety Commissioner 0 RSapaharam@cupertino.gov 0- 9- 0- 0- 9- N. 0; From: Nidhi Parekh To: Public Comments; City Council; Tina Kapoor Subject: Request to Remove All Purple Bike Lane Projects from ATP Date: Friday, February 20, 2026 9:29:06 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor Chao, and City Council, I am writing to express my respectful opposition to the purple -marked bike lane projects listed in Attachment D. I believe these projects will negatively impact parking, safety, and school access, and I request their removal from the Active Transportation Plan (ATP). Specifically, I am requesting the removal of the following projects: - Homestead Rd: buffered/separated lanes - Stevens Creek Blvd: separated lanes - Stelling Rd: buffered/separated lanes - Blaney Ave: buffered lanes - Bollinger Rd: buffered lanes - Foothill/Wolfe: separated lanes - Bonny/Pepper Tree: lanes - Mary/McClellan: school routes My primary concerns include: - Parking Loss: The removal of curb parking on residential streets will significantly affect elderly residents, guests, and delivery services. - Emergency Access: Concrete barriers may obstruct emergency vehicles, which is a particular concern given the proximity of the new Westport senior housing and the De Anza clinic. - School Disruption: The proposed lanes on Bonny and Pepper Tree would disrupt the drop- off process for over 600 students at Faria Elementary. The current scoring system penalizes the removal of parking, and I believe these projects fail to meet that standard. I encourage the Council to consider better alternatives, such as technology corridors, enhanced crosswalks, and targeted school safety measures. Please delete all purple bike lanes from the ATP. Thank you for your commitment to prioritizing families and community safety. Sincerely, Nidhi Parekh From: Pramod Neoi To: Public Comments; City Council; Tina Ka000r Subject: Request to Reconsider and Remove Purple Bike Lane Projects from ATP Date: Friday, February 20, 2026 9:15:31 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor Chao, and Honorable Members of the City Council, I am writing as a concerned resident and parent to respectfully request the removal of all purple -marked bike lane projects listed in Attachment D from the Active Transportation Plan (ATP). While I understand and support the broader goal of improving safety and mobility in our city, I am deeply concerned that the proposed buffered and separated bike lanes in these locations will negatively impact neighborhood parking availability, emergency access, and safe school drop-off operations. Projects I request be removed include: • Stevens Creek Boulevard — separated lanes • Stelling Road — buffered/separated lanes • Blaney Avenue — buffered lanes • Bollinger Road — buffered lanes • Bonny/Pepper Tree — lanes • Mary/McClellan — school routes Key concerns: • Loss of curb parking on residential streets, which directly affects seniors, visiting family members, and essential deliveries. • Potential obstruction for emergency vehicles due to concrete barriers and narrowed lanes —especially concerning given the proximity to Westport senior housing and the De Anza clinic. • Disruption to Faria Elementary School drop-off and pick-up, impacting over 600 students and their families who rely on safe and efficient vehicle access along Bonny and Pepper Tree. Additionally, the City's own scoring criteria penalizes projects that remove parking. Based on that standard, these proposals do not appear to meet the intended balance between safety, access, and community impact. I respectfully urge the Council to consider alternative safety improvements —such as enhanced crosswalk visibility, traffic calming, school -zone protections, and targeted improvements along commercial or technology corridors —rather than implementing residential parking removal and concrete -separated lanes. Please prioritize family access, senior mobility, and emergency response by removing all purple bike lane projects from the ATP. Thank you for your service to our community and for carefully considering the voices of residents. Sincerely, Pramod Negi From: To: Subject: Date: P Hershey Public Comments Request to remove all purple bike lane projects from ATP Friday, February 20, 2026 8:52:29 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. > Dear Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor Chao, and City Council, > I respectfully oppose the purple -marked bike lane projects in Attachment D. They harm parking, safety, and school access. Please remove them all. > Projects to remove: > • Homestead Rd buffered/separated lanes > • Stevens Creek Blvd separated lanes > • Stelling Rd buffered/separated > • Blaney Ave buffered > • Bollinger Rd buffered > • Foothill/Wolfe separated > • Bonny/Pepper Tree lanes > • Mary/McClellan school routes > Key concerns: > • Curb parking lost for elders, guests, deliveries on residential streets. > • Emergency vehicles blocked by concrete barriers, especially with new Westport senior housing and De Anza clinic. > • Faria Elementary drop-off disrupted for 600+ kids on Bonny/Pepper Tree. > Your scoring system penalizes parking removal. These projects fail that test. > Better options: Technology corridors, crosswalks, school safety measures. > Request: Please delete all purple bike lanes from the ATP. > Thank you for prioritizing families and safety. > Sincerely, > Pamela Hershey > Sent from my iPhone From: Deepti Rokkam To: Public Comments; City Council; Tina Kapoor Subject: Request to reconsider bike lanes around Faria Elementary school Date: Friday, February 20, 2026 8:13:17 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor Chao, and members of the city council, I recently found out about the proposal to eliminate parking to introduce bike lanes on Rodriguez, Bonnie, and Pepper tree lanes. As a parent sending her child to Faria Elementary school, this proposal caused me significant concern. As one of —650 children attending the school, the 15 minute drop off and pick up periods are only possible because of the availability of street parking. Loss of street parking will increase chaos around the school, and will impact school safety. Please reconsider your proposal. Respectfully, Deepti From: Anaan Das To: Public Comments; City Council; Tina Kapoor Subject: Please stop bike lane projects: Remove all purple lines from ATP Date: Friday, February 20, 2026 7:42:30 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear members of city council, Now that we have bike lanes in all major thoroughfares like De Anza, Stevens Creek, McClellan, can we please stop continuing them literally till every residence's gateway? It benefits 5 families, but puts 50 more at disadvantage. Bike lanes favor neighborhoods with a rising younger generation. On the contract, Cupertino is a city with rising empty nesters. And they need more off-street parking for visiting friends and family. Moreover, schools also benefit from the same. I understand there are dedicated funds for staff and resources towards bike lane programs. But I hope we can find alternate ways to divert & utilize those funds towards more meaningful purposes. - Angan Das Former Cupertino Housing Commissioner 4o8-204-2486 CC 2-19-2026 Active Transportation Plan Written Communications From: Tracy Kosolcharoen To: City Council; Tina Ka Door; City Clerk Cc: David Stillman; Matt Schroeder Subject: Written comments -- Agenda Item 9, ATP Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 7:46:59 AM Attachments: 2026 Sheriff Memo Re SCC Concrete Lanes.odf Dear City Council, (writing on behalf of myself) — please do not make roadway changes that delay our emergency response times. Some of the latest ATP project proposals do not fully account for their impact on emergency vehicles. Both our sheriff and fire departments confirmed that they travel slower on small roads with concrete bike barriers like McClellan, in my direct conversations. Please see the attached written statement from the sheriff's department, which notes that during peak hours, the sheriff must take alternate routes to avoid congested, concrete -buffered roads like McClellan. They cannot even turn on their sirens on these roads because it confuses drivers who cannot pull aside. Constricting more high -traffic two-lane roads across Cupertino cumulatively degrades response times across our city. We can increase bike safety without delaying public safety response. Most of the ATP proposes painted buffered bike lanes along our 2-lane roads, which I very much support. Painted buffers are a proven option that still allows cars to pull aside for emergency vehicles to pass. In fact, the last city memo on the De Anza bike lane changes showed that the new painted buffer bike lanes significantly improved safety for bikers and vehicles alike. I ask City Council to consider painted buffer bike lanes in lieu of concrete separation on three of the ATP proposals for Stelling (mostly two-way in the proposal), Blaney (mostly two-way and curved in the proposal), and Finch (all two-way). Please do not create additional strains on law enforcement that prevent them from turning left on the left side of vehicles, or create gridlock that they must subsequently avoid during peak hours. Note that I am not asking to change the Foothill, Homestead, or Stevens Creek concrete lane ATP project listings, which are wider roads with space for turning. Please consult our own city's law enforcement and emergency response first and foremost, and consider their feedback before any outside research studies. During the last planning commission meeting, some commissioners referenced studies from entirely different states and with different scenarios (4- to 3-lane conversion). Please compare similar scenarios involving 2-lane roads, not 3- or 4-lane roads. Increased response times would put lives at risk due to longer transit times to hospitals, and make our city a greater target for crime. Many residents choose to live in Cupertino because it is safe and has rapid emergency response rates. Per the latest sheriff and fire department reports, Cupertino experiences at least 6K sheriff and fire department incidents per year. We enjoy exemplary sheriff response times compared to the rest of the county. Moreover, as we add hundreds of new housing units, and our aging population continues to grow, we can expect increased strain on our law enforcement and emergency response. Is council willing to slow down our emergency response? For many of us, protecting emergency response times is non-negotiable. We can make biking safer without physically preventing cars from yielding to emergency vehicles. Please enable our sheriff to fight crime and save lives quickly and effectively. Thank you for your consideration, Tracy P.S. -- there is a minor correction on the memo from Sergeant Slaugh and the reference to the raised island on Wolfe & SCB should read "prevents vehicles from moving left," not right. I'll send through a corrected version when I have it. Tracy Kosolcharoen Chair, Planning Commission N TKosolcharoen@cupertino.gov ■❑ I ■❑ I 0 I ■❑ I ■❑ I ■❑ I■❑ County of Santa Clara Office of the Sheriff 55 West Younger Avenue San Jose, California 95110-1721 (408) 808-4400 MEMORANDUM Robert Jonsen Sheriff TO Tracy Kosolcharoen FROM Sergeant A. Slaugh #1922 / West Valley Traffic Sergeant SUBJECT : Emergency Vehicle Response Re: solid bike lane barriers DATE February 13, 2026 In response to whether the Emergency Response of the Sheriff's Office is impacted by a solid barrier between the far most right lane, bike lane and shoulder of any roadway, I offer this statement as the opinion of an emergency responder. The California Vehicle Code, section 21806(a)(1), states that when an authorized emergency vehicle is operating its forward -facing red lights and siren, "The driver of every other vehicle shall yield the right-of-wayandshall immediately drive to the right-hand edge or curb of the highway, clear of any intersection, and thereupon shall stop and remain stopped until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed. " This law exists so that emergency responders can arrive swiftly to emergency calls for service. Several locations within the City of Cupertino currently present conditions where, during peak commute hours, traffic congestion prevents motorists from complying with this legal requirement. In these areas, the installation of cement barriers or raised curbs designed to protect bicycle lanes leaves drivers with no physical space to yield to the right, as required by law. In some segments —such as Stevens Creek Boulevard east of Wolfe Road —there is a raised island that prevents vehicles from moving right. In other areas, such as McClellan Road, there is no two-way left -turn lane, making it impossible for an emergency vehicle to pass on the left. Department policy requires emergency vehicles operating with lights and sirens to pass on the left whenever feasible. When both sides are obstructed, an impasse is created, resulting in confusion for motorists and delayed response times for emergency personnel. In these situations, emergency responders often must bypass the main arterial altogether and divert through residential neighborhoods to reach their destination. While veteran deputies familiar with the area can navigate these alternate routes efficiently, newer deputies —who rely more heavily on GPS—may experience additional delays, potentially impacting response times during critical incidents. From: Rhoda Fry To: Public Comments Cc: City Council Subject: February 19 2026 City Council Agenda Item #9 Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 4:25:21 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Council, Regarding February 19 2026 City Council Agenda Item #9. I am concerned about the continued erosion of public parking in favor of bike paths. We need to find a way to satisfy both needs. Since installation of the bike path near Lawson school, which resulted in an avoidable loss of parking, neighboring streets have become very congested with on -street parking and there are more people speeding through the neighborhoods because of the dearth of parking near the school. In order to protect public safety and quality of life, please retain on -street parking when designing new bike paths. Regards, Rhoda Fry From: Peggy Griffin To: City Council Cc: City Clerk Subject: 2026-02-19 City Council Meeting -ITEM 9 Study session ATP Update Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 8:22:58 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. PLEASE INCLUDE THIS EMAIL AS PART OF WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS FORTH E 2-19-2026 CITY COUNCIL MEETING, AGENDA ITEM #9-ATP. Dear Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor Chao, Councilmembers and Staff, I am very concerned at the resulting project rankings for the ATP due to the scoring of the Project Prioritization Matrix. When I looked at the highest priority work it emphases routes that I would consider some of the safer routes compared to those that were ignored. BOTH the Planning Commission and the Bike/Pedestrian Commission along with those who spoke in public comments are all in agreement — the scoring of the project rankings needs to be adjusted to prioritize the more dangerous intersections in Cupertino, where there has been death, injuries and collisions. REQUESTS: Please reassess the scoring matrix to 1. INCREASE the emphasis/scoring for areas where there are injuries, deaths and collisions. a. The priority should be where people have been killed, injured or there have been accidents! b. EXAMPLE OF UNDESIRED POINT RESULTS ... the highest priority project is the intersection of Lazaneo Dr (near the Donut Wheel) and De Anza Blvd i. 90 points = Intersection of De Anza Blvd and Lazaneo ii. 60 points = intersection of De Anza Blvd and Homestead Rd 1. This is by far a more dangerous intersection for everyone (pedestrians, bikes and vehicles)! Vehicles running the red lights don't just run the light, they increase their speeds to run the light. I have seen as many as 5 cars run the light AFTER it turns red. If pedestrians, cyclists and other vehicles don't see them they risk injury or death ... and yet it's #60 on this list! 1. REDUCE the priority on Safe Routes to School routes and give more priority to the Vision Zero High Injury locations and areas. a. In "Attachment A— Revised Prioritization Criteria" i. Table 1, Safety gives the max of 20 points if it's ANYWHERE ALONG the SR2S route. Please note that these routes are selected because the ARE the safer routes already! ii. Table 2, Safety gives the max of 20 points if it's ANYWHERE ALONG the SR2S route. iii. Table 3, Safety gives the max of 20 points if it's ANYWHERE ALONG the S42S route. 1. NOTE in this Table 3 that parks, the library, senior center/facilities, rec centers, shopping get a max of 5 points! iv. Table 4, Safety, again gives the max of 20 points if it is along 75% of the SR2S route 1. NOTE under Safety that Collision History can only get a max of 10 points! 2. INCREASE POINTS for parks, the library, senior center/facitilites, rec centers, shopping centers. 3. INCREASE the emphasis on the use of technology a. Our Sheriff's contract is increasing, we can't afford to add deputies but technology can help increase safety. Please use it! REQUEST: 1. LOSS OF PARKING -There are quite a few projects on this list that anyone driving down the specified road would know the impact without having to spend 30% of the design cost for a consultant to tell you. Once a project is started, even 30%, it is not stopped. It's basically a done -deal. a. With our city's growing density and the state's requirement to NO REQUIRE parking for housing projects, the elimination of existing parking becomes more significant. b. ADD POINT DEDUCTIONS for loss of parking. 2. PUBLIC NOTICE —for potential projects, NOWHERE is there a mention that the residents/businesses will be notified BEFORE a decision is made. a. As the Planning Commissioner Rao pointed out, at the public events, no mention of potential loss of parking was mentioned. 3. SEPARATED BIKE LANES —please use sparingly for high speed corridors (35-40 mph or more) with multiple lanes, not 2-lane roads. Sincerely, Peggy Griffin From: Deepa Mahendraker To: Public Comments; City Council; Tina Ka000r Subject: Please Reject All Bike Lane Projects in the ATP Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026 9:07:23 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Clerk, Please include the below in written comments for the upcoming city council meeting. Subject: Please Reject All Bike Lane Projects in the ATP Dear Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor Chao, and Cupertino City Council, I am a Cupertino resident and auto user who supports safe walking and commutes. I strongly oppose every bike lane project shown in purple in the Active Transportation Plan and respectfully ask that you cancel all proposed bike lane projects. These include: • Homestead Road buffered and separated bike lanes • Stevens Creek Boulevard separated bike lanes • Stelling Road buffered and separated bikeways • Blaney Avenue buffered bikeways • Bollinger Road buffered bikeways • Foothill Boulevard separated bikeways • Wolfe Road separated bikeways • Bonny Avenue bike lanes • Pepper Tree Lane bike lanes • Related school -access segments on Mary Avenue and McClellan Road Please reject all of these purple row identified bike lane projects. On -street parking is essential for families. Many homes rely on curb space for elders, caregivers, visiting relatives, and everyday guests. Removing parking on residential segments of Homestead, Blaney, Bollinger, Stelling, Bonny, Pepper Tree, Mary, and McClellan will push cars into smaller side streets and make daily life harder for residents. Emergency response will suffer. Concrete -separated and tightly buffered lanes on Stevens Creek, Stelling, Foothill, Wolfe, and Homestead leave no room for drivers to move over. With a hard curb on one side and a center line on the other, cars cannot clear a path. Fire trucks and ambulances will be forced to inch through traffic instead of getting a clear lane in seconds. This is especially risky because we are adding more high -need destinations. Senior assisted -living and memory -care units at Westport (Mary and Stevens Creek) and the proposed medical clinic at De Anza College will increase emergency calls on Stevens Creek, Stelling, Pepper Tree, Mary, McClellan, and nearby streets. At the same time, hard -separated bike lanes would make yielding to those emergency vehicles more difficult. School access will be damaged. At Faria Elementary, more than 600 families use Bonny Avenue and Pepper Tree Lane twice every day. Parents park on these streets and walk their children in. If you remove street parking on Bonny and Pepper Tree for bike lanes, the current drop-off system breaks. Queues will back up onto arterials, and more children will be forced to cross busy streets from farther away. Similar problems will appear near schools that depend on Stelling, Homestead, Blaney, Bollinger, Mary, and McClellan for drop-off and pick-up. The City's own framework emphasizes data, cost-effectiveness, and negative scoring when removing many parking spaces or travel lanes. Yet the purple projects are exactly where those impacts will be largest. Advancing them without clear block -by -block information on parking loss, congestion, and emergency response would go against those principles. I respectfully ask you to: • Remove all purple -listed bike lane projects on Homestead Road, Stevens Creek Boulevard, Stelling Road, Blaney Avenue, Bollinger Road, Foothill Boulevard, Wolfe Road, Bonny Avenue, Pepper Tree Lane, Mary Avenue, McClellan Road, and other affected streets from the ATP; and • Focus instead on technology -based measures that do not remove on -street parking or emergency -vehicle maneuvering room. We all want fewer crashes and safer streets. We should not achieve that by making it harder for families to live, gather, and reach medical care, or for emergency responders to reach people in time. Please do not approve the purple row or any other bike lane projects. Thanks, Deepa From: Vidya Gurikar To: Public Comments; City Council; Tina Kapoor Subject: ATP projects Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026 7:56:27 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I am a longtime Cupertino homeowner and daily driver. I value safe streets for everyone. But the purple -marked bike lane projects in the Active Transportation Plan will make our city less safe. The number of motorists that use the streets far outnumber the small number of bicyclists. The ATP projects take away precious street space from motorists and make the streets unsafe for everyone. I urge you to remove them all. Here are the projects to reject: • Homestead Road buffered/separated bike lanes • Stevens Creek Blvd separated bike lanes • Stelling Rd buffered/separated bikeways • Blaney Ave buffered bikeways • Bollinger Rd buffered bikeways • Foothill Blvd separated bikeways • Wolfe Rd separated bikeways • Bonny Ave bike lanes • Pepper Tree Ln bike lanes • Mary Ave and McClellan Rd school segments Three reasons why these projects should be rejected: 1. Emergency vehicles get blocked. Hard concrete bike lanes trap cars between barriers and center lines. No room to pull right. Fire engines and ambulances crawl through traffic. This hits hardest where we need fastest response: new Westport senior/memory care at Mary - Stevens Creek, De Anza College medical clinic, plus all our schools and neighborhoods. 2. School drop-off chaos. Faria Elementary serves 600+ kids. Parents park on Bonny and Pepper Tree, walk kids in safely. Strip that parking for bike buffers? Lines spill onto arterials. Kids dart across roads from distant spots. Same story for schools near Stelling, Homestead, Blaney, Bollinger. 3. Families lose parking. Curb space isn't optional. It's for grandparents, guests, service vans, family events. Residential stretches of Homestead, Blaney, Bollinger, Stelling, Bonny, Pepper Tree, Mary, McClellan — all lose it. Cars flood narrower streets. Congestion worsens everywhere. Pleasr reject them now, before they lock in harm. Please consider the following to improve the safety for everyone: Speed cameras. Smart signals. Crosswalk beacons. Neighborhood slow streets. School guards. All of the above deliver safety without sacrificing parking or blocking emergency vehicles. Action requested: • Delete every purple bike lane from the ATP. • Prioritize tech, intersections, and school fixes instead. Cupertino works because streets serve cars, bikes, peds, and emergencies equally. These projects break that balance. Please Vote no. Reject all new bike lanes. Sincerely, Shrividya Gurikar From: Mahesh Gurikar To: Public Comments; City Council; Tina Kapoor Subject: Cancel all purple bike lane projects in ATP Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026 7:38:51 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor Chao, and Cupertino City Council, I am a longtime Cupertino homeowner and daily driver. I value safe streets for everyone. But the purple -marked bike lane projects in the Active Transportation Plan will make our city less safe. I urge you to remove them all. Here are the projects to reject: • Homestead Road buffered/separated bike lanes • Stevens Creek Blvd separated bike lanes • Stelling Rd buffered/separated bikeways • Blaney Ave buffered bikeways • Bollinger Rd buffered bikeways • Foothill Blvd separated bikeways • Wolfe Rd separated bikeways • Bonny Ave bike lanes • Pepper Tree Ln bike lanes • Mary Ave and McClellan Rd school segments Three clear reasons why these projects should be rejected: 1. Emergency vehicles get blocked. Hard concrete bike lanes trap cars between barriers and center lines. No room to pull right. Fire engines and ambulances crawl through traffic. This hits hardest where we need fastest response: new Westport senior/memory care at Mary - Stevens Creek, De Anza College medical clinic, plus all our schools and neighborhoods. 2. School drop-off chaos. Faria Elementary serves 600+ kids. Parents park on Bonny and Pepper Tree, walk kids in safely. Strip that parking for bike buffers? Lines spill onto arterials. Kids dart across roads from distant spots. Same story for schools near Stelling, Homestead, Blaney, Bollinger. 3. Families lose parking. Curb space isn't optional. It's for grandparents, guests, service vans, family events. Residential stretches of Homestead, Blaney, Bollinger, Stelling, Bonny, Pepper Tree, Mary, McClellan — all lose it. Cars flood narrower streets. Congestion worsens everywhere. Pleasr reject them now, before they lock in harm. Better fixes exist. Speed cameras. Smart signals. Crosswalk beacons. Neighborhood slow streets. School guards. All deliver safety without killing parking or blocking fire trucks. Action requested: • Delete every purple bike lane from the ATP. • Prioritize tech, intersections, and school fixes instead. Cupertino works because streets serve cars, bikes, peds, and emergencies equally. These projects break that balance. Please Vote no. Reject all new bike lanes. Sincerely, Mahesh Gurikar From: Chirali Bhandari To: Public Comments; City Council; Tina Ka000r Subject: Request to Remove All Purple Bike Lane Projects from ATP Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026 6:20:27 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor Chao, and City Council, I respectfully oppose the purple -marked bike lane projects in Attachment D. They harm parking, safety, and school access. Please remove them all. Projects to remove: • Homestead Rd buffered/separated lanes • Stevens Creek Blvd separated lanes • Stelling Rd buffered/separated • Blaney Ave buffered • Bollinger Rd buffered • Foothill/Wolfe separated • Bonny/Pepper Tree lanes • Mary/McClellan school routes Key concerns: • Curb parking lost for elders, guests, deliveries on residential streets. • Emergency vehicles blocked by concrete barriers, especially with new Westport senior housing and De Anza clinic. • Faria Elementary drop-off disrupted for 600+ kids on Bonny/Pepper Tree. Your scoring system penalizes parking removal. These projects fail that test. Better options: Technology corridors, crosswalks, school safety measures. Request: Please delete all purple bike lanes from the ATP. Thank you for prioritizing families and safety. Sincerely, Chirali Bhandari From: Seema Lindskoa To: City Council Cc: City Clerk; Cupertino City Manager"s Office; City Attorney"s Office Subject: Serious Ethics Concerns Regarding Planning Commission Chair Communications on the ATP agenda item Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026 6:09:26 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor, Council members, and City Attorney, I am a commissioner with the Cupertino Planning Commission but I am writing today as a resident. City Clerk, please include this email as public communication for the ATP agenda item at tonight's Council meeting. Tracy Kosolcharoen, Chair of the Planning Commission, sent an email to the City Council on Wednesday Feb 18 2026 regarding emergency response times and protected bike lanes. The email— and how it came to be — raises serious governance and ethics concerns. The issue raised in the email was discussed during the Planning Commission meeting of February 10, at which time Chair Kosolcharoen introduced adding a criteria to the ATP to consider emergency response times and therefore deprioritize projects for protected bike lanes on some city streets as a potential recommendation of the Planning Commission. That recommendation did not proceed, receiving two votes in favor and three votes against. As a result. the Planning Commission explicitly decided not to recommend the position expressed. Yesterday, Chair Kosolcharoen sent an email to the City Council expressing opposition to protected bike lanes due to her concern about emergency response times. The email was sent from her official @cupertino.gov email address and included her official title as Chair of the Planning Commission. Although the message states that she was "writing on behalf of myself," the context and manner of the communication raise several significant concerns related to governance, ethics, and the appropriate role of appointed officials. As a member of the Planning Commission myself, I am very mindful to ensure that if I write to council or outside agencies on my own behalf on any matter within the jurisdiction of Cupertino, to do so from my private, personal communication and to acknowledge that the communication is personal and does not reflect the position of the Commission. Council has previously and recently discussed this standard. More concerningly, Chair Kosolcharoen also used her official email and title to reach out to a sergeant in the Sheriff's Office. Nowhere in the email did she disclaim that she was acting in her official capacity. City staff were not aware that Chair Kosolcharoen sent the email. Because the email came from her official email and with her official letterhead and title, the sheriff's office mistakenly assumed it was an official request from the City of Cupertino. In fact, the city staff knew nothing about it and it was not an official staff request. This has resulted in quite a bit of confusion and public resources being used in support of a personal question by Chair Kosolcharoen as a resident. Specifically, these two communications appear to implicate the following principles: 1. Use of public resources for personal advocacy Under California Government Code § 8314, public resources may not be used for personal or political purposes. Chair Kosolcharoen's use of an official city email account and signature block associated with a city -appointed role to advocate a personal policy position may constitute misuse of public resources, regardless of disclaimers included in the message. 2. Improper invocation of official title following contrary commission action Ethics guidance from the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) emphasizes that public officials may not leverage the prestige or authority of their office to influence governmental decisions when acting in a personal capacity. This concern is heightened where the official's communication follows a recorded vote of the body rejecting the same position, creating a reasonable risk that the communication could be interpreted as conveying an institutional or insider view that does not, in fact, exist. 3. Circumvention of the commission's collective, noticed process The Planning Commission acts only through noticed meetings and majority votes. After the Commission voted on Feb 10, 2026 not to advance the recommendation, a unilateral communication by Chair Kosolcharoen to the City Council on the same issue — using her official email address and title — undermines the integrity of the advisory process and the public's understanding of how recommendations are formed. 4. Undue influence Chair Kosolcharoen's clear use of her title and official city email address, and failure to disclaim to obtain preferential responses from the Sheriff's Office created an undue influence on the Sheriff's Office (the impression that the communication was an official request of the City of Cupertino) that induced the Sheriff's Office to produce a prospectively favorable memo in response. It would be inappropriate for a Councilmember to breach the Council -Manager relationship in this fashion. It cannot be acceptable for Council's commission appointees to circumvent it either. It is for this reason that the Commissioner's Handbook and the city's Ethics Policy admonish against misuse of official titles. 5. Inconsistency with local ethics and commission conduct standards While I defer to the City Attorney on specific municipal code citations, most municipal ethics codes and commission handbooks require appointed officials to: • Clearly distinguish personal views from official positions • Avoid use of city resources for private advocacy • Refrain from representing themselves as speaking for the body absent formal authorization This communication is clearly inconsistent with those standards. I raise these concerns not to question intent, but to safeguard the integrity of the City's governance processes and ensure clear boundaries for appointed officials, particularly where the Planning Commission has already taken formal action on the issue. I respectfully request that the City Attorney review this matter and provide guidance to Chair Kosolcharoen regarding appropriate communication practices following commission votes, including the use of official email accounts, titles, and disclaimers Thanks, Seema Lindskog "You must be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi This message is from my personal email account. I am only writing as myself, not as a representative or spokesperson for any other organization. From: David Yan To: City Council; Public Comments; Tina Ka000r Subject: Request to remove purpole bike lane projects from ATP Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:59:14 PM �AUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Councilmembers, I am writing to oppose the purple marked bike lane projects. They harm parking, safety, and school access. Projects to remove: • Homestead Rd buffered/separated lanes • Stevens Creek Blvd separated lanes • Stelling Rd buffered/separated • Blaney Ave buffered • Bollinger Rd buffered • Foothill/Wolfe separated • Bonny/Pepper Tree lanes • Mary/McClellan school routes Key concerns: • Curb parking lost for elders, guests, deliveries on residential streets. • Emergency vehicles blocked by concrete barriers, especially with new Westport senior housing and De Anza clinic. Better options: Technology corridors, crosswalks, school safety measures. Please delete all purple bike lanes from the ATP. From: Ram Sripathi To: Public Comments; City Council; Tina Ka000r Subject: Request to Remove All Purple Bike Lane Projects from ATP Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:55:02 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor Chao, and City Council, I am a Cupertino senior resident. I respectfully oppose the purple -marked bike lane projects in Attachment D. They harm parking, safety, and school access. Please remove them all. Projects to remove: • Homestead Rd buffered/separated lanes • Stevens Creek Blvd separated lanes • Stelling Rd buffered/separated • Blaney Ave buffered • Bollinger Rd buffered • Foothill/Wolfe separated • Bonny/Pepper Tree lanes • Mary/McClellan school routes Key concerns: • Curb parking lost for elders, guests, deliveries on residential streets. • Emergency vehicles blocked by concrete barriers, especially with new Westport senior housing and De Anza clinic. • Faria Elementary drop-off disrupted for 600+ kids on Bonny/Pepper Tree. Your scoring system penalizes parking removal. These projects fail that test. Better options: Technology corridors, crosswalks, school safety measures. Request: Please delete all purple bike lanes from the ATP. Thank you for prioritizing families and safety. Sincerely, Ram Sripathi Cupertino resident forever Sent from my iPhone From: Deepak Balasubramaniam To: Public Comments; City Council; Tina Ka000r Subject: Request to Remove All Purple Bike Lane Projects from ATP Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:46:44 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor Chao, and City Council, As a Cupertino resident who will be affected by the bike lane project proposal, I respectfully oppose the purple -marked bike lane projects in Attachment D. They harm parking, safety, and school access. Please remove them all. The current bike lanes and safety blockades have created more distractions, dangerous situations and overall frustration for residents. Instead of solving issues through education, enforcement, upgrading pavements, and monitoring we are spending money unnecessarily on these projects that don't help the majority of residents. We will continue spending money on maintaining these projects in the future too which wastes taxpayer money. Projects to remove: • Homestead Rd buffered/separated lanes • Stevens Creek Blvd separated lanes • Stelling Rd buffered/separated • Blaney Ave buffered • Bollinger Rd buffered • Foothill/Wolfe separated • Bonny/Pepper Tree lanes • Mary/McClellan school routes Key concerns: • Curb parking lost for elders, guests, deliveries on residential streets. • Emergency vehicles blocked by concrete barriers, especially with new Westport senior housing and De Anza clinic. • Faria Elementary drop-off disrupted for 600+ kids on Bonny/Pepper Tree. Your scoring system penalizes parking removal. These projects fail that test. Better options: Technology corridors, crosswalks, school safety measures. Request: Please delete all purple bike lanes from the ATP. Thank you for prioritizing families and safety. Sincerely, Deepak From: Santosh Rao To: City Council; Public Comments; Tina Ka000r; City Attorney"s Office; Kirsten Squarcia; City Clerk Subject: Opposition to Bike Lane projects in ATP Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026 4:14:20 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Clerk, Please include the below in written communications for the upcoming city council meeting. [Writing on behalf of myself only as a Cupertino resident] Subject: Opposition to Purple -Lined Bike Lane Proposals in ATP Dear Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor Chao, and Cupertino City Council, I am writing on behalf of myself only as a Cupertino resident. I oppose the bike lane projects shown in purple in Attachment D of the Active Transportation Plan (ATP) agenda materials. While I support safer walking and biking, these particular bike lane proposals would create serious, localized impacts on residents' ability to live and function on affected streets, especially around on -street parking, school access, and emergency response. Because the purple projects are not simply paint on wide arterials but often require removal of existing curbside parking and/or conversion to concrete -separated Class IV facilities, they directly conflict with the ATP goal of "Multimodal Balance" and with the "Community Impacts" language in the General Plan Mobility Element, which calls for minimizing adverse impacts and avoiding simply moving problems from one street to another. Below I outline overarching concerns, then request that you remove each purple -identified bike lane project from the list, before adopting the ATP. Overarching concerns • Loss of on -street parking and guest parking: The revised prioritization criteria explicitly recognize parking and lane removal as negative impacts, with point deductions when "five or more regularly used parking spaces are removed" or when a travel lane is eliminated over more than 10% of a project's length. The purple projects by definition are the ones most likely to require these trade-offs, and yet the plan does not provide project -by -project parking loss numbers that residents can evaluate today. Approving these facilities in concept, and deferring the true parking analysis to a later 30% design phase, pushes a large, real impact onto individual households without giving them clear information now. • Emergency vehicle access and lane width: Many of the purple projects contemplate either buffered or concrete -separated Class IV bikeways on constrained corridors. Once a hard median or curb -separated bikeway is built adjacent to a narrower general-purpose lane, cars can no longer pull right into a wide shoulder or curb lane to yield to fire trucks or ambulances. This is especially problematic on corridors that will see more emergency responder trips in the near future, such as Stevens Creek Boulevard and connecting streets serving medical and senior facilities. The ATP is asking you to pre -approve these corridors before that impact is fully analyzed. • One -size -fits -all separated design: Some community members asked to "upgrade buffered bike lanes to separated bikeways" on high-speed corridors. That preference on wide arterials should not automatically drive the choice of concrete separation on constrained residential segments, where loss of curb access, driveway conflicts, school drop-off operations, and emergency operations are far more acute. The ATP should explicitly distinguish where full separation is essential (e.g., high-speed, multi -lane arterials) versus where lower -speed neighborhood streets can safely be served with shared or advisory treatments that preserve parking and curb flexibility. • Data -first policy conflicts: The revised prioritization framework emphasizes objective metrics, removal of "Fairness" as a subjective criterion, and additional negative scoring for projects that impact arterials or remove parking and lanes. Yet the purple corridors are being advanced as network "must -haves" without the same level of quantitative balancing for neighborhood and school impacts, especially emergency response and daily school circulation. New development and emergency response impacts Several near -term projects will significantly increase emergency responder activity along Stevens Creek Boulevard and adjacent streets: • The planned Westport development at Mary Avenue and Stevens Creek Boulevard, which includes more than 130 assisted -living units and 36 memory -care units, will generate frequent ambulance and fire responses due to the frailty of its residents. • The proposed 25,000-square-foot medical clinic facility at DeAnza College Parking Lot B will add another high -intensity medical destination, increasing emergency calls and patient transport along Stevens Creek, Stelling, Mary, Pepper Tree Lane, McClellan Road, and the surrounding network. These facilities will rely on rapid access along exactly the streets where concrete -separated bike lanes are being proposed in purple. When general-purpose lanes are narrowed and a rigid curb or median separates traffic from the bikeway, drivers can no longer swing into an extra -wide curb lane or shoulder to create space for emergency vehicles. Instead, traffic often becomes "trapped" between the separation and the centerline, forcing fire trucks and ambulances to thread slowly through the middle of the lane, adding seconds or minutes to response times when every second matters. Designing these corridors with unforgiving concrete separation, at the same time we are adding high -need medical and senior uses, is an avoidable conflict. The ATP should explicitly recognize these planned uses and direct that on Stevens Creek Boulevard, Stelling Road, Mary Avenue, Pepper Tree Lane, McClellan Road, and nearby connections, emergency access and yield -space remain a hard constraint on bikeway design. School access and Faria Elementary (Bonny Avenue and Pepper Tree Lane) Two of the purple -proposed bike facilities are on Bonny Avenue and Pepper Tree Lane, which directly serve Faria Elementary. Over 600 families drive on these roads twice a day for school drop-off and pick-up. Parents rely on exactly this curb space to: • Queue vehicles safely in an organized fashion. • Park on Bonny and Pepper Tree and then walk the last segment with their children into campus. Removing street parking on Bonny Avenue and Pepper Tree Lane to meet buffer or separation width requirements would fundamentally disrupt this daily operation for roughly 600 students. It would: • Force parents into longer, more chaotic queues on already -congested arterials. • Push parking and loading activity deeper into adjacent residential side streets that are not designed for this intensity. • Increase the number of children crossing uncontrolled or mid -block locations as families hunt for replacement parking further away from school. A plan that claims to prioritize Safe Routes to School cannot simultaneously remove the very curb space parents use to stage and walk the "last stretch" to Faria. Any purple bikeway concept on Bonny and Pepper Tree should be removed from the ATP and replaced with a school -specific circulation and safety plan that preserves on -street parking and focuses on speed management, crosswalk upgrades, and crossing -guard support rather than lane and parking removal. Other school drop-off and pick-up impacts The same pattern of conflict appears along several other purple corridors: • Homestead Road: Serves multiple school communities; parking and wide lanes along some segments are used informally for staging and drop-off. Converting these segments to concrete -separated bikeways will constrain both school circulation and emergency yield space. • Stelling Road: Carries heavy school -hour traffic and walking/biking to nearby schools. Removing curbside parking and hard -separating the bikeway would reduce safe, legal short-term parking near schools and limit options for parents to pull over when children need assistance. • Blaney Avenue: Used by families accessing nearby schools and the Blaney/Stevens Creek intersection. Wider buffered lanes at the expense of residential curb parking would make it harder for parents to find safe, proximate parking and walk children to school. • Bollinger Road, Mary Avenue, McClellan Road, and connecting residential streets: All function as part of the practical school access network, even if not directly fronting school property. Removing parking on these streets as part of purple bike lane projects will displace school -hour parking and loading into other blocks and complicate traffic patterns around schools. The ATP already emphasizes the importance of Suggested Routes to School, Safe Routes to School programming, and intersection -level safety measures. It would be far more consistent with those goals to prioritize intersection improvements, traffic calming, and crossing safety, rather than corridor -wide parking and lane removals on the very streets that families depend on for daily school access. Corridor -by -corridor opposition (summary) For the reasons above, I oppose the purple -designated bike lane projects that would remove parking or narrow emergency -critical lanes on: • Homestead Road (buffered and separated bike lanes) • Stevens Creek Boulevard (separated bike lanes, especially near Westport and De Anza College) • Stelling Road (buffered and separated bikeways) • Blaney Avenue (buffered bikeways on residential segments) • Bollinger Road (buffered bikeways) • Foothill Boulevard and Wolfe Road (separated bikeways on constrained sections) • Bonny Avenue and Pepper Tree Lane (bike lanes affecting Faria Elementary access) On each of these corridors, I ask that Council explicitly remove the purple row identified bike lane projects from the ATP. Requests to Council In light of the above, I respectfully request that the Cupertino City Council: 1. Direct staff to remove all purple -designated bike lane segments from the ATP including but not limited to the segments of Stevens Creek Boulevard, Homestead Road, Stelling Road, Blaney Avenue, Bollinger Road, Foothill Boulevard, Wolfe Road, Bonny Avenue, Pepper Tree Lane, Mary Avenue, McClellan Road, and nearby school -access streets. 2. Explicitly account for the upcoming Westport senior assisted -living and memory -care project and the planned De Anza College medical clinic in any design decisions for Stevens Creek Boulevard and its feeder streets, treating emergency response and yield -space as non-negotiable design constraints. 3. Protect school access by prohibiting ATP projects that remove curbside parking or materially disrupt drop-off/pick-up operations around Faria Elementary and other schools, unless and until a replacement circulation and parking plan is designed with parents, school staff, and public safety and is approved in a separate, transparent process. 4. Where safety concerns are real, prioritize technology -based safety improvements only rather than corridor -wide parking and lane removals. This approach would allow Cupertino to pursue genuine safety improvements in line with its Vision Zero and Climate Action Plan goals, while still honoring the daily realities of residents who need curbside access for their families, caregivers, and guests and who depend on clear, unobstructed paths for emergency response, particularly as the City adds new senior and medical facilities that will increase the volume and urgency of emergency medical calls. Thank you for considering this perspective as you refine the ATP. Sincerely, San Rao (writing on behalf of myself only as a Cupertino resident)