Peggy Griffin- 3-12-2018 4-05 p.m. - FW_ Vallco Specific Plan EIRFrom: City of Cupertino Plannino Dept.
To: Piu Ghosh; Catarina Kidd; "kweis(cOdavidipowers.com"
Subject: FW: Vallco Specific Plan EIR Scoping Comments
Date: Monday, March 12, 2018 5:08:01 PM
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2015-11-12 From Jason Holder.pdf
From the Planning Department's general mailbox:
From: Peggy Griffin
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 4:36 PM
To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept. <planning@cupertino.org>
Subject: FW: Vallco Specific Plan EIR Scoping Comments
From: Peggy Griffin
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 4:05 PM
To: planning(a)cuperitno.org
Cc: 'City Clerk'
Subject: Vallco Specific Plan EIR Scoping Comments
Please study the following items below. It is copied from a letter sent to the City on 11-12-2015 for
the Hills-at-Vallco EIR which I have included for your reference. These items still apply to this current
EIR.
Peggy Griffin
1_ The DEIR must adequately analyze the Project's potentially significant impacts to City
transportation. recreation, and school facilities. consider secondary impacts, and analyze
a reasonable range of Project alternatives -
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lternatives_
The Draft Program E I R must include thorough analysis of the fol lowing potentially significant
environmental impacts that could affect the City and its residents:
1) Impacts of conversion of non-residential development intensity to residential uses;z
2) Impacts to water supplies caused by the Project directly, as well as cumulative impacts to
water supplies caused by this Project together with other past, present, and probable
future projects;
3j Weekday and peak traffic impacts on all surrounding roads and intersections;
4) Weekend and off-peak traffic impacts on Stevens Creek Boulevard and North Wolfe Road
and impacts on recreation facilities including City parks as a result of additional
residential, commercial, and retail uses;
5) Secondary impacts caused by increased traffic, including air qualr#y impacts and
increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,-
6)
missions;6j Impacts to schools and other public services caused by the influx of new residents,
including but not limited to:
t The direct impacts on school facilities that this Project will cause,'
+ The potential to open the wall separating the Project site from the neighboring
community (at (Merritt Drive, Amhurst Drive, or Wheaton Drive) to provide a
"safe route to school," and
• Cumulative impacts to schools caused by this Project in combination with other
projects in the Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose area, including traffic impacts
caused by assignment to overflowschooIs, I
7) Construction -period and operational impacts to the large double raw of Ash trees along
Stevens Creek Blvd. and along Wolfe (toad and any other protected trees;
8) Public service impacts to neighboring residents, including any reduced police, fire, or
ambulance servires or increased response times,'
10)Aesthetic and visual impacts to neighboring communities, including but not limited to:
• Obstructed views and increased shadows caused by the Project's tall buildings,
and
• Nighttime light pollution;
11) Loss of solar access to areas beneath green roof and the alternative of using Project roofs
for solar energy generation;
12)The Project's direct and indirect secondary effects associated with the increase in traffic
and recreation impacts to the City including but not limited to increased demand for
limited parking, increased demand for police, fire and other City services, and the related
strains on the City's limited facilities and resources;
13) Impacts stemming from additional office development and displaced retail uses,
including, but not limited to:
• Growth -inducing impacts,
• Displacement of lower income residents (and increased traffic caused by such
displacement and the associated increase in commuting),
• Increased travel to other more distant retail locations,
• Increased traffic to freeways and local streets caused by large buses ferrying
employees to new office developments,
• and potential inconsistencies with the goals of SB 375;
14)Cumulative weekday and weekend traffic impacts and cumulative direct and serondary
impacts to parking, politer fire and other City services as a result of past, proposed, and
approved uses within the City; and
15) Consideration of a reasonable range of Project alternatives, including=
• A revitalized mall. that includes minimal or no physical changes to the existing
Vallco Shopping Mall but includes incentives and other strategies to maximize
tenant occupancy,
• a reduced development alternative that includes reduced office and residential
use development,
• a balanced growth alternative that would attempt to match the proposed new
residential development in both amount and housing cast (i -e-, market rater
moderate income, law income, very low income) to the expected amount and
demographics of the additional employment that would be associated with the
new commercial development, and
• A conventional layout alternative that would comply with existing City standards
for development and open space and would use rooftop areas for solar energy
generation_
Please include all technical supportfor the above analyses in appendices to the DEIR_
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