Ding, Ignatius - 03-12-18 4-58 p.m. - Comments for Vallco EIRI. According to Government Code 45082. Notice of Preparation and Determination of Scope
of EIR:
(1) The notice of preparation shall provide the responsible and trustee agencies and
the Office of Planning and Research with sufficient information describing the project
and the potential environmental effects ....
The provisional allocation for Vallo Shopping Mall Site will be expired on May 31, 2018 as
stipulated by City Council Resolution 14-210 passed in December 2014. It is clear what your
plan to move forward the EIR is in direct conflict with various actions that might be taken by the
Council on or before the said date of May 31, 2018.
In other words, the EIR might likely be required to be conducted based on a set of totally
different criteria and allocations of office, retails, hotel and housing space and ratio.
Why is the city proceeding with the EIR process at this point? Isn't it putting the car in front of
the horse, so to speak?
II. It is well-known to most of Bay Area residents that all interstate, state and county highways are
already being used in full capacity during extended rush hours from 7:OOam to 10:00am and
3:30pm to 7:OOpm, including Interstate -280 and Highway 85.
The traffic jams are no longer only clustered on I-280 or neighborhood streets near the Vallco
site. North -bound traffic starts to overspill into local streets in commercial/residential areas as
early as the Saratoga Avenue and Lawrence Expressway exits and south -bound traffic starts to
exit at Foothill Expressway or earlier. Consequently, intersections along Stevens Creek Blvd.
are jammed with north -bound cars while the intersections on Homestead Road between Foothill
Expressway and Hollenbeck as well as those on Stevens Creek Blvd between South Foothill
Blvd and Stelling Road are flooded by cars coming off 1-280.
The EIR traffic study of only those near Vallco will no longer sufficient to assess the further
negative impact by the new and unknown (therefore undefined) developments at the Vallco
site.
III. The Apple Park constructions and moving -in of more employees is yet to be completed. The
expansion of Cupertino Village on the other side of I-280 is done, but the landscaping is not.
The traffic and various expanded operating, such as water, electricity and sewage, impacts of
this particular two office and shopping complex will be unknown for quite some time into
the future.
Factoring these unknown environmental impacts, the city should not move forward with the Vallco EIR
or the EIR would be obsolete as soon as it is completed.
Resident Ignatius Y. Ding
Cupertino, CA