Chao, Liang-Fang 3-12 2-05pm_RedactedLiang-Fang Chao Sent via email — Monday 3/12/2018 2:04 p.m.
RE: Vallco Shopping District Specific Plan (NOT Vallco Special Area, which doesn't
exist in the General Plan)
The impact for civic services should be based on real data, not personal
communications that cannot be verified or quantified, such as done for the EIR for 2014
GPA.
Specifically, the emergency response time for ambulance and fire station should be
quantified.
How the response time has changed in the pas 4 years as the traffic is getting worse?
How the response time will become with increased residential or working population?
What's the response time of other cities with denser population for comparison?
What's their investment in police forces per capita? Would we get reduced police
services as the population increase?
(I have heard of comments that San Jose police department doesn't have resource to
come to schools to give students safety instructions as in Cupertino schools because San
Jose police has to deal with a lot more incidents due to their population density.)
The 2005 General Plan used to have noise level data. Please use quantitative analysis for
noise and pollution.
Please refer to the enclosed email for more details.
Thank you.
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From: Liang C >
Date: Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 9:22 AM
Subject: Comment on Vallco EIR - impact on civic services should be based on real data
To: "City of Cupertino Planning Dept." <planning@cupertino.org>
RE: Comment for Vallco EIR
Please study the impacts on civic services, such as library, police, fire station, medical
emergency services based on real data.
Please study the impact on medical services, emergency and otherwise. The non-
resident population would increase the demand for medical services since medical
offices are open mostly only during working hours.
Even though the city doesn't provide any service for ambulances, the response time of
an ambulance often means life or death even by just one second. Please study the
response time of emergency vehicles to various points in Cupertino since traffic
congestion could delay an emergecy vehicle to reach a residence on the other side of the
town.
Please study not only facility and personnel needs, but also the impact on level of
service. Especially, the response time for medical, police, fire emergencies. And the
response time during peak hours in average and also worse case scenarios. Any delay
in response time could mean life or death for both the resident and non-resident
population. Please study the realistic impact supported by real data.
Please please study the impacts of non-resident population on these civic services since
the employees do spend more than 8 hours a way in Cupertino and they need the parks
and recreation services, police, fire and medical services as any other resident.
Please include cummulative impact, including ongoing projects like Apple Campus 2
and Main Street, and also proposed projects, like Marina, Hamptons, Oaks.
Please provide real data and statistics to support your claim or conclusion, instead of
any undocumented personal communication, as it has been done for the EIR of GPA.
If any personal communication is documented through email, it should be provided in
the appendix for reference.
e.g. Personal communications between Ricky Caperton (P1aceWorks) and Derek
Wolfgram, Deputy County Librarian for Community Libraries, April 4, 2014.)
e.g. Personal communication between Ricky Caperton (P1aceWorks) and Cheryl Roth of
the Santa Clara County Fire Department on April
24, 2014.
e.g. Personal communications between Ricky Caperton (P1aceWorks) and Captain Ken
Binder, Division Commander, West Valley Patrol,
April 11, 2014
Please do not make assumption that employees generated do not add any impact
without providing sufficient data to back it up, such as the following:
e.g. EIR of GPA states: "Although the proposed Project would result in an increase in
employees throughout Cupertino as well, only residents within Santa Clara County can
apply for a library card; therefore, the following analysis considers expected population
increases, and not employment generation as a result of implementation of the
proposed Project."
Most of the employees in Cupertino are probably Santa Clara County residents also. If
the EIR would claim that most residents are NOT Santa Clara County residents,
statistics should be given to support that claim. In fact, even non-resident of Santa Clara
County can hold a library card, according to an official from Santa Clara County
Library:
"All public libraries in Santa Clara County allow free reciprocal borrowing regardless of
address. Currently 45,312 non-resident have a library card from our system. This is
18% of our total library cards.
In the EIR for GPA, the impact level for fire station and police are also derived without
any data. With 30% increase in residence population and 50% increase in non -residence
employee population, the EIR concludes that there will be no additional staffing needs
for fire station or police. But the conclusions were only based on "personal
communication" with no document and no data to support it.
For example, based on personal communications, the EIR concludes that there is no
need to expansion for police for 30% increase in residence population and 50% increase
in non -residence employee population.
e.g. "However, the West Valley Patrol Division has confirmed that future development
under the General Plan would not result in the need for expansion or addition of
facilities." (Personal communications between Ricky Caperton (P1aceWorks) and
Captain Ken Binder, Division Commander, West Valley Patrol,
April 11, 2014.)
If there is no need to expand, a written letter should be provided so that whoever makes
the statement would be responsible for the claim. And attempt should be made to
estimate the realistic impact of population increase and to explain using data why there
will be no significant impact.
Thank you.
Liang Chao