Geefay, Frank 3.13.18_RedactedFrom: City of Cupertino Planning Dem
To: Catarina Kidd; Piu Ghosh; Kristy Weis
Subject: FW: EIR input for Vallco
Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 12:53:11 PM
From the Planning Department's general mailbox:
From: Frank Geefay
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 11:58 AM
To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept. <planning@cupertino.org>
Subject: EIR input for Vallco
Dear Sir/Madam,
I feel it important that Vallco have many more affordable housing units to accommodate and
compensate for the lack of housing provided for Apple employees as well as other employees
working in Cupertino. Cupertino has a long standing avoidance for housing development by
citizens who feel they threaten schools by overcrowding. This has created a housing vacuum
and pricing escalation.
When the new 14,000 employees Apply campus was built no thought was given to housing for
employees such as Google and Facebook are doing. There has also been little consideration
given for how to provide low cost BMR housing. I would like to see as much as 30% BMR
housing at Vallco.
I believe that the door must be left open for as many as 8,000 housing units at the Vallco site
in the EIR to accommodate as many working people as possible. This can be made possible by
using ultra high density tiny apartments ranging from 150-400 sf. This can be done by
removing and making smaller housing component such eliminating living rooms, family
rooms, dining rooms, and shrinking down the size of the kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom with
an optional loft for small children. The apartments will be primarily used for sleeping and
freshening up. The mall will become the living room with all the amenities needed by tenants.
This housing is primarily intended for young adults, millennials, and their families. It is also
meant for people who qualify for BMR. It is low cost to build thus more affordable to rent.
Most of all it takes thousands of cars off the freeways and streets.
Some calculations:
Established Apple Campus II employees = 14,000
Others employees working in Cupertino = 26,184
Totall number of people working in Cupertino = 40,184
People working but not living in Cupertino = 90% X 40,184 = 36,165
This is the number of people needing housing to balance out jobs and reduce traffic. A
disproportionate number of employees wanting such housing will be single. Since there are
some spouses that do not work in Cupertino that will affect the actual optimum amount of
housing needed to reduce traffic.
Sincerely,
Frank Geefa
Long time resident
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