Warren, Lisa 3-9-2018 4-25 p.m. - NOP Mailed Letters_RedactedNovember 9, 2015
Department of Community Development
10300 Torre Avenue
Cupertino California 95014
Attention: The Hills at Vallco EIR Scoping Comments
Members of the Community:
RECEIVED
NOV 12 2015
I live on North Blaney within walking distance to Vallco. Collins School is one block from my house. Lawson Middle
School is several blocks away. Parents bringing children to school drive down Blaney, even those going to Lawson since
there is limited street access all those cars come down Blaney. Collins now has 746 students. Lawson has 1252
students. Some of the cars and some of those who live in this neighborhood detour down Wheaton to Portal to Merritt
and then join the traffic on Blaney. A school with 700 additional students on Portal will create a nightmare of a traffic
jam on Portal and leave no alternate route. In addition, Portal Park is a popular place for neighborhood children in the
afternoons, in season the baseball diamond behind the present day care center will be used for games, and the fate of
the popular cricket practice area is uncertain. Certainly those wishing to come to the park for these purposes will be
impacted.
North Blaney is a 2 lane residential street; yet we are now seeing heavv commute traffic from those who wish to avoid
congestion on Wolfe Road and DeAnza Blvd. Unlike most of the school traffic, these commuters are often speeding,
rude and inconsiderate of bicycles and pedestrians. I have seen 3 close calls involving neighborhood cars trying to enter
North Blaney from Wheaton and almost being hit. 2 of us have requested a speed bump there, but this has not been
considered because there is already a stop sign at Blaney and Forest Avenue. At the last Neighborhood Watch meeting,
my neighbors expressed a great deal of anger over the traffic issues on our street. Additional high density housing at
Vallco will create such a backlog of traffic on Wolfe Road that more cars will come down Blaney.
All these cars create air pollution. I wiping off black sooty material from my outdoor furniture, something I didn't see a
year ago. More cars will damage the air quality even more. The developers are claiming that more people will be using
public transportation. A recent article in the Mercury News by Scott Herhold disputes this. I used to walk to Vallco to
shop at Sears, Pennys, and Macys. However, department store shopping will be eliminated with the closing of Pennys.
There are plans to close the Kohls store in Sunnyvale and Target on Stevens Creek and replace this space with more high
density housing. As a result, more of us will be getting in our cars to shop. A cleaners in our neighborhood has been
forced to move 3 times, and is now on Wolfe and Homestead.
am aware of the desperate need for housing in this area. However, 860 units at Vallco are way too many in such a
small area. .
Sincerely,
Patricia McAfee
Block Leader on North Blaney