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Randy Shingai 2-28-2018 2-52 p.m. - Vallco Specific PlanFrom: Randy Shingai To: Piu Ghosh; David Brandt; City Council Cc: City Clerk; City Attorney"s Office Subject: "Vallco Specific Plan" - revocable office and housing allocations. Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 2:52:21 PM Attachments: CC Resolution No. 14-210 Certifyina an Environmental Impact Report for the (1).Ddf Dear Council and Staff This a comment on the Notice of Preparation for the Vallco Special Area Specific Plan. There are assertions regarding the commercial, office, hotel and residential authorized in the General Plan for the "Special Plan." The Notice of Preparation says: Consistent with the adopted General Plan, the Specific Plan would facilitate the development of 600,000 square feet of commercial uses, 2.0 million square feet of office uses, 339 hotel rooms, and 800 residential dwelling units onsite. http://www.cill2ertino.org/home/showdocument?id= 193 86 I downloaded the latest copy of Resolution 14-210 from the City's archive. It is attached to this e-mail. This is what was approved by the City Council and signed on Dec. 4, 2014. Note the following: 1. A Vallco Shopping District Special Plan satisfying the conditions set in Resolution 14-210 was a condition for the provisional allocations for office space and housing becoming permanent. 2. The General Plan's 389 housing units identified for the Vallco Shopping District is contingent on approval of a Specific Plan by May 31, 2018. 3. The General Plan's 2,000,000 sq. ft. office allocation for the Vallco Shopping District is contingent on approval of a Specific Plan by May 31, 2018. I cut and pasted the following from Resolution 14-210 (the highlights are mine): Page I-3 The development allocations in the Approved Project are as follows: Office allocation: 2, 000, 000 square feet of office allocation is identified for the Vallco Shopping District site contingent on timely approval of a specific plan for the Vallco Shopping District). The remainder of the existing allocation is unchanged and is still available for citywide use as provided for in the General Plan. Residential allocation: 1, 400 dwelling units of the existing residential allocation on sites recommended for the 2014-2022 Housing Element Inventory, 389 of which are identified for the Vallco Shopping District contingent on timely approval of a specific plan for the Vallco Shopping District site Page I-4 As stated, these Approved Project allocations rely in part on timely preparation of a specific plan for the Vallco Shopping District that meets the requirements of the General Plan. If a Vallco Shopping District Specific Plan is not approved by May 31, 2018, then the City will consider removing the 2, 000, 000 square feet of office allocation from the Vallco Shopping District. In addition, as described in section II.B, below, the Council will further consider redistributing the residential allocation of 389 units for the Vallco Shopping District Housing Element site to other Housing Element sites and removing the Vallco site from the Housing Element Inventory. Page I-5 The Approved Project involves a list of five Priority Housing Sites (Scenario A) and an alternate list of six Priority Housing Sites (Scenario B). Four of the sites are in both lists. If the City has not approved a specific plan for the Vallco Shopping District site, which is listed in Scenario A, by May 31, 2018, the City will consider actions to remove the Vallco Shopping District site from the Housing Element Inventory and to add the Glenbrook Apartments site and the Homestead Lanes site(Scenario B), and will consider redistributing the 389 units that could have been developed on the Vallco site as follows: 35 additional units to the Oaks Shopping Center site, 150 additional units to The Hamptons site, 58 units to the Glenbrook Apartments site, and 132 units to the Homestead Lanes site. These changes in the recommended Housing Element sites do not have the potential to create any new or substantially more severe significant effects on the environment, because all of the Housing Element sites were analyzed in the EIR at or above the number of units shown for those sites in the Approved Project. Also, please redact my e-mail address and include this as a response to the NOP for the Vallco Shopping District. Thank you, Randy Shingai San Jose Total Control Panel Laub To: pivaCc cupertino.ora Message Score: 1 High (60): Pass From: My Spam Blocking Level: High Medium (75): Pass Low (90): Pass Block this sender Block gmail.com This message was delivered because the content filter score did not exceed your filter level.