Appendix-A-NOP&Comment-LettersAPPENDIX A
NOP, SCOPING LETTERS
NOTICE OF PREPARATION
TO: Responsible, Trustee and Other Interested Public Agencies
FROM: City of Cupertino
Department of Community Development
10300 Torre Avenue
Cupertino, CA 95014-3232
Email: GaryC@cupertino.org
SUBJECT: Notice of Preparation of a Draft Environmental Impact Report
The City of Cupertino will be the lead agency and will prepare an Environmental Impact Report
(EIR) for the Apple Campus 2 Project, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA). The purpose of an EIR is to inform decision -makers and the general public of the
environmental effects of a proposed project. The EIR process is intended to provide public
agencies and the public with the information required to understand the potential environmental
impacts of a proposed project and to reduce the significant environmental effects of that project.
The City is requesting comments on the proposed scope and content of the EIR for the Apple
Campus 2 Project. This notice is being sent to Responsible Agencies (agencies that have or may
have a role in approving or carrying out a project), Trustee Agencies (agencies with jurisdiction
over natural resources), and other interested parties. The project description, location, and list of
the environmental issues that will be addressed in the EIR are attached to this notice.
Due to the time limits mandated by State law, your response must be sent at the earliest possible
date, but must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on September 19, 2011. Please send your
response to Gary Chao at the address shown above. If you submit comments on the scope of the
EIR, you will automatically be added to the City's distribution list for future notices and
information about the environmental review process for the Apple Campus 2 Project. If you do
not wish to submit comments on the scope of the EIR but would like to be added to the City's
mailing list, please send your contact information, including email address, to Gary Chao at the
address shown above.
The City will be hosting an EIR scoping session on Thursday, September 8, at 6:30 p.m. at
the Cupertino Community Hall (10350 Torre Avenue, next to the library).
Project Title: Apple Campus 2 Project
Project Applicant: Apple
Date: August 19, 2011
Signature:
Name: Gary Chao
Title: City Planner
Email: GaryC@cupertino.org
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NOTICE OF PREPARATION OF A DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT
FOR THE PROPOSED APPLE CAMPUS 2 PROJECT
Proiect Location
The proposed Apple Campus 2 is a replacement and rebuild project located on an approximately
176 -acre site in the City of Cupertino. The site is bounded by East Homestead Road on the north;
adjacent properties to the east of North Tantau Avenue on the east; Interstate 280 on the south;
and North Wolfe Road on the west. Pruneridge Avenue extends through the site on a roughly
east/west alignment. The project site currently contains approximately 2,657,000 feet of office
and research buildings, some of which are occupied by Apple and Hewlett Packard. Calabazas
Creek crosses the southeastern portion of the site. Please refer to Figure 1 for a local and
regional map showing the location of the project.
Prosect Description
The proposed project includes three phases. During phase 1, all buildings on the site west of
North Tantau Avenue would be demolished and replaced with a four-story building comprising
approximately 2,820,000 square feet, a corporate fitness center, a corporate auditorium with
seating for 1,000 people, a parking structure, and a central plant that would provide on-site
energy (solar, fuel cells, back-up generators, chillers, an electrical substation), water and fire
pumps, and other related equipment. Phase 2 would be analyzed at a programmatic level (i.e.,
without a specific design or building footprints) and consist of ancillary research facilities
totaling another 300,000 square feet to be located on the portion of the site east of North Tantau
Avenue. Phases 1 and 2 would total 3,120,000 million square feet of office and research
building space, representing an increase of approximately 463,000 square feet of office and
research building space over existing conditions. Phases 1 and 2 are expected to accommodate
approximately 13,000 Apple employees. In addition, to allow for a potential third phase, the
City would allocate up to 300,000 square feet of office development potential (which currently
exists under the City's General Plan) for future development within the project site. This
allocation of office space, which has not been sited or designed, would provide Apple with
flexibility to address future operational and business needs. Like Phase 2, Phase 3 would be
analyzed in the EIR at a programmatic level.
The following bullet points summarize key elements of the project. Please note that this project
description is a summary and will be expanded upon as part of the EIR.
• Employment. On-site employment would increase to approximately 13,000 employees (a net
capacity increase of approximately 3,500 employees) with implementation of the project.
Site Access. Pruneridge Avenue, a public road, would be vacated from a proposed new
signalized intersection at the entrance to the Hamptons Apartments east to North Tantau
Avenue, and conveyed to Apple. The closure of this portion of Pruneridge Avenue to public
use is proposed to unify the campus, address security needs, enhance internal circulation, and
consolidate access points. Through traffic (including bicycle and pedestrian traffic) that
would otherwise use Pruneridge Avenue would be routed to alternative streets and pathways
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and the privatized segment of Pruneridge Avenue would function as a main entrance into the
Apple Campus 2 Project. A secondary access point to the site would be established on North
Tantau Avenue south of Calabazas Creek and include a bridge crossing near the southern
boundary of the project site adjacent to Interstate 280.
• Parking. There are currently 9,220 parking spaces on the site. On the portion of the site to
the west of North Tantau Avenue, the project would replace all existing parking with
approximately 9,000 spaces in a structured garage and an underground parking area. The
portion of the site located east of North Tantau Avenue would include approximately 1,500
parking spaces, with approximately 750 spaces for the research facilities and approximately
750 spaces for the corporate auditorium. At full build out, the project would result in a net
increase of approximately 1,280 parking spaces.
• Off-site Roadway Changes, Infrastructure Improvements and Barn Relocation. As part of
the project, Wolfe Road would be expanded to include a second southbound left -turn lane
and a third northbound through -lane. Certain utilities currently within the Pruneridge
Avenue right of way would be upsized and relocated, as required. If suitable for landscape
irrigation purposes, Apple would extend a recycled water line to the site. The Glendenning
Barn would be relocated to a to -be -determined off-site location.
• Green Features. The project would include several green design and operational features,
including the reduction of impervious surfaces on the site, the use of renewable energy,
passive design to achieve energy efficiencies, the use of recycled water, and a comprehensive
Transportation Demand Management (TDM) program to encourage the use of alternative
transportation modes and reduce peak hour traffic congestion.
Environmental Effects of the Proiect to be Addressed in the EIR
Based on a preliminary environmental analysis of the project, the following topics will be
evaluated in detail in the EIR:
Land Use and Planning Policy;
Aesthetics;
Population, Employment, and Housing;
Biological Resources;
Cultural Resources;
Geology, Seismicity, and Soils;
Hydrology and Water Quality;
Hazards and Hazardous Materials;
Transportation and Circulation;
Noise;
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sustainability;
Air Quality; and
Public Services and Utilities.
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The following topics are likely to be associated with less -than -significant impacts and are not
expected to be evaluated in detail in the EIR:
Agriculture and Forestry Resources; and
Mineral Resources.
Organization of the EIR
In accordance with the requirements of CEQA, the EIR will include:
• Summary of the environmental analysis of the project;
• Project description;
• Description of the environmental setting of the project, potential environmental impacts
(including impacts that would occur in conjunction with other projects), and mitigation
measures;
• Alternatives to the project as proposed; and
• Other CEQA-mandated considerations, including unavoidable environmental effects;
growth -inducing effects; and less -than -significant environmental effects.
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Re: NOP —Apple Campus Project
Dear Mr. Chao:
Santa Clara Unified School District is concerned about the closing of Pruneridge Avenue in
the area of the proposed Apple Campus 2 project. The closing of Pruneridge Avenue would
impose a hardship on the parents and students of the Hamptons Residential Complex related
to getting to and from school. We request that this aspect of the project be reviewed further
in the 8R.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Bobbie Plough, Ed.D.
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Subject: Notice of Preparation —Apple Campus 2 Project
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Clara County. The Water District acts as the county's groundwater management agency,
principal water resources manager, flood protection agency and is the steward for its
watersheds, streams and creeks, and underground aquifers.
We appreciate the opportunity to comment on the scope for the EIR for the Apple Campus 2
Project. The Water District owns property and easements along Calabazas Creek in the
southeast portion of the project area. This letter transmits comments that focus on the areas of
interest and expertise of the Water District.
The Water District owns the Calabazas Creek right-of-way and a 40 to 45 foot wide easement
along the north and west bank of the creek for stream maintenance. In addition, the Water
District has access easements to the creek from Pruneridge Avenue from the north and from
North Tantau Avenue from the east. These property rights allow the Water District tM
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maintained to allow continued stream maintenance.
The EIR will need to evaluate the impacts to the Calabazas Creek riparian corridor and identify
proposed mitigation for these impacts. District staff recommends increasing the setback of the
parking structure and Central Plant to Calabazas Creek (only 30 feet as shown) to provide a
buffer area and improvement to the riparian corridor. We support the inclusion of significant
open space within the site layout, and request that the building layout be adjusted so as to
include open space areas next to the creek. The project provides an opportunity to improve
habitat conditions along the creek. At a minimum the EIR should evaluate the project's
cA nsistency with the Guidelines and Standards for Land Uses Near Streams prepared by the
Santa Clara Valley Water Resources Protection Collaborative, which the City was a member of -
Portions of North Tantau Avenue where Calabazas Creek crosses the road are shown as flool�
zone AE and AO in FEMA flood maps. The EIR will need to evaluate if the project may impact
flooding in the area and downstream.
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Project Planner
Community Development Department
City of Cupertino
10300 Torre Avenue
Cupertino, CA 95014
< Re: Comments on the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) Scoping Session — Apple
Campus 2
C-) Dear Ms. Ghos,h:
Thank you for including the City of Santa Clara in the Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
Scoping Session for the Apple Campus 2 Project. The Planning Division and Traffic
Engineering Division have the following comments:
•;• The City of Santa Clara,is currently under construction to narrow Pruneridge Avenue
from a four land roadway to a two lane plus center two way left turn lane to add bicycle
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lanes. The City is also constructing, the San Torras Aquino Saratoga Creek Trail
currently. The Apple Campus 2 project Traffic Impact Analysis (TIA) and EIR should
reflect the new roadway configuration and account the associated traffic related impacts;
•* It is recommended that the proposed project implement a comprehensive Transportation
Demand Management (TDM) program to take advantage of the bicycle lane/trails, and
Vv regional transit options to reduce single occupancy vehicles trips. Details of the TDM
program are requested to be included as part of the TIA;
"" •* It is requested that the FIR analyze in detail the potential transportation and access issues
related to pedestrians, vehicles, and bicycles movement; and duality of life impacts to the
existing residential neighborhoods in the City of Santa Clara along Pruneridge Avenue.
Moreover, it is requested that the project EIR address the need for traffic calming studies
and measures within the City of Santa Clara residential neighborhoods to mitigate some
of the project related impacts; and,
».* The City of Santa Clara is currently working on a feasibility plan to expand the City's
Creek Trail Network on Calabazas Creek, Saratoga Creek, and the Fetch Hetchy right -of -
1500 Warburton Avenue
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EIR Scoping comment letter for Apple Campus 2 development
September 15, 2011
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way. It is requested that the City of Cupertino consider partnering with the City of Santa
Clara on investigating Calabazas Creep in Cupertino for a possible trail segment,
Please consider our comments when preparing the Environmental Impact. Report (EIR) for
the proposed Apple Campus 2 development. Again, thank you for including City of Santa
Clara in the EIR Scoping Session for the Apple Campus 2 Project, Please provide the City of
Santa Clara a Notice of Availability and the EIR for review. We look forward to working
with you in the future.
Sincerely,
Kevin Riley
Director of Planning
cc: Rajeev Batra, Director of Public Works/City Engineer
Dennis Ng, Traffic Engineer
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Review of proposed new office structure, parking structure, auditorium, fitness center and central
plant. The following comments will address requirements for these structures.
Review of this Developmental proposal is limited to acceptability of building/site access and
water supply as they pertain to Fire department operations and is not intended to be a
comprehensive plan review to determine compliance with the fire and life -safety provisions of
State and locally adopted codes and regulations.
Comment #1: Fire Sprinklers Required: An automatic sprinkler system shall be provided
throughout all new buildings and structures.
Comment #2: Private On -Site Fire Hydrant(s) Required: Provide private on-site fire hydrants at
locations to be determined by the Fire Department. Maximum hydrant spacing shall be 500 feet, with
a minimum acceptable flow of 1,500 GPM at 20 psi residual pressure.
Comment #3: Standpipes Required: In addition to the standpipes required by 905 of the California
Building Code, standpipes shall additionally be installed in the office building courtyard at locations
determined by the Fire Department.
Comment #4: Timing of Required Water Supply Installations: Installation of required fire service
and fire hydrants shall be tested and accepted by the Fire Department prior to the presence of bulk
combustible materials on site. Building permit issuance may be withheld until required installations
are completed, tested, and accepted.
Comment #5: Fire Apparatus Access Roads Required (General): Provide apparatus access roadways
with an all-weather surface within 150 ft. of the exterior walls of all buildings. Access roads shall
have a minimum unobstructed width of 20 feet and a vertical clearance of 13 feet 6 inches. Turn radii
shall be per Fire Department specifications. NOTE: Apparatus access shall be provided from
entrances on Pruneridge and Tantau. The portion of the tunnel between the Pruneridge entrance and
the new Fivy 280 frontage road must accommodate the Fire Department aerial apparatus.
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Comment #6: Fire Apparatus Access Roads - Aerial Apparatus: Where required: Buildings or
portions of buildings or facilities exceeding 30 feet (9144 mm) in height above the lowest
level of fire department vehicle access shall be provided with approved fire apparatus
access roads capable of accommodating fire department aerial apparatus. Width: Aerial fire
apparatus access roads shall have a minimum unobstructed width of 26 feet and shall be
located within a minimum of 15 feet and a maximum of 30 feet from the building, and shall
be positioned parallel to one entire side of the building and/or as approved by the Fire
Department.
Comment #7: Exterior Graphic Annunciator: An exterior graphic annunciator must be
located so as to be clearly visible and accessible from emergency vehicles arriving at the
Pruneridge site entrance. A written procedure shall be developed for notifying emergency
personnel of the incident type and location upon their arrival at the Pruneridge entrance.
Comment #8: Traffic Signal Preemption: Intersection signal preemption shall be installed
at locations to be designated by the Fire Department (approximately 10 locations).
Comment #9: Fire Command Center: A Fire Command Center room, accessible from the
exterior of the building, shall be provided and shall contain the fire alarm control panels and
other building controls that may be necessary to operate/monitor under emergency
conditions.
Comment #10: Emergency Responder Radio Coverage In Buildings: All buildings shall
have approved radio coverage for emergency responders within all portions the buildings,
based upon the existing coverage levels at the exterior of the building. Additional systems,
components or equipment shall be provided, as necessary, to provide radio coverage levels.
Comment #11: Roof Access: Provisions shall be made to allow emergency responder access
to all portions of the roof, as approved by the Fire Department.
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City of Cupertino
Department of Community Development
10300 Torre Avenue
Cupertino, CA 95014-3232
Attention: Gary Chao
Subject: Notice of Preparation of a Draft EIR for the Apple Campus 2 Project
Dear Mr. Chao:
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) has reviewed the NOP for a Draft EIR
for the Apple Campus 2 Project at the southeast corner of East Homestead Road and North
Wolfe Road. We have the following comments.
Transportation Impact Analysis (TIA) Report
VTA's Congestion Management Program (CMP) requires a Transportation Impact Analysis
(TIA) for any project that is expected to generate 100 or more new peak -hour trips. Based on the
information provided on the size of this project, a TIA is likely to be required. The updated
March 2009 version of the VTA CMP TIA Guidelines should be used when preparing the TIA
for this development. This document includes updated procedures for the analysis of bicycle
facilities, parking, site circulation and pedestrian access, as well as roadways, and may be
downloaded from htip://www.vta.orWnews/vtacmp/0 - Technical Guidelines/. For more
information on the TIA Guidelines, please call Shanthi Chatradhi of the VTA Congestion
Management Agency Division at 408-952-4224.
VTA's TIA Guidelines require the Lead Agency on a project to send notification that a TIA is
being started to VTA and the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) members of cities, towns,
the County and Caltrans, as appropriate. The purpose of this notification is to inform interested
parties of the study and to allow them to comment on the scope of the analysis. The TIA
Notification Form, work scope and TIA Report should be submitted to VTA's Congestion
Management Division when they are available.
Relationship to Santa Clara County Congestion Management Program
The TIA Report and DEIR should evaluate the consistency of the proposed Project with the
Santa Clara County CMP. This analysis should include identification of potential impacts to any
CMP facilities including freeways, freeway on -ramps (including consideration of the need for
ramp metering), major arterial roadways, transit services, and cross -county bicycle corridors.
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Transportation Impacts — Reduction of Vehicle Trips and Vehicle -Miles -Traveled
The project proponent has stated in public settings such as the EIR Scoping Session that the
proposed campus will employ numerous `Green Design' or `Sustainable Design' features, and
the NOP states that the project will include a comprehensive Transportation Demand
Management (TDM) program to encourage the use of alternative transportation modes. It should
be noted that Greenhouse Gas Emissions associated with employee commuting is one of the
largest components of a project's environmental footprint. In addition, the destination end of
work trips is one of the largest determinants of transit ridership. Therefore, the location and
design of the Apple Campus 2, and its transit and TDM measures, will play a large role in
determining the overall environmental impact of the proposed Apple Campus 2.
VTA has an established Community Design & Transportation (CDT) Program Cores, Corridors
and Station Areas framework, which shows VTA and local jurisdiction priorities for supporting
concentrated development in the County. The CDT Program was developed through an
extensive community outreach strategy in partnership with VTA Member Agencies, and was
endorsed by all 15 Santa Clara County cities and the county. It is important to note that the
proposed project site falls outside (although relatively near) the Stevens Creek Boulevard
corridor, the nearest corridor in which VTA provides frequent, core transit services. The campus
site is also separated from Stevens Creek Boulevard by Interstate 280, a major barrier to
pedestrian and bicycle travel. This makes the project site a challenging one to serve with public
transit service.
For the above reasons, it will be particularly important for the proponent of the Apple Campus 2
project to find ways to reduce the vehicle trip generation and Vehicle -Miles -Traveled generated
by the project. Reducing vehicle trips and shifting more trips to alternative modes will lessen the
roadway congestion impacts of the project, and reduce the need for costly roadway mitigation
measures. The following sections provide suggestions for specific items to analyze in this area.
Transit Service to Project Site
The TIA Report and DEIR should address the potential to serve the proposed Apple Campus 2
with transit services, both public and private, and any measures that can be taken to improve the
attractiveness of transit services at the project site. We encourage the City to explore
opportunities for public-private partnerships to provide improved transit service to this
challenging area.
Transportation Demand Management
In addition to addressing the role of transit in serving the proposed project, the TIA and DEIR
should address other Transportation Demand Management measures that can reduce the project's
auto trip generation. We encourage the City and the project proponent to consider policies that
limit the number of free parking spaces, or provide parking cash -out, to encourage the use of
alternative modes. Other TDM programs that may be applicable to the proposed project include:
• Direct or Indirect Payments for Taking Alternate Modes
• Transit Fare Incentives such as Eco Pass and Commuter Checks
• Preferentially Located Carpool Parking
• Bicycle Lockers and Bicycle Racks
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• On-site or Walk -Accessible Employee and Visitor Services (day-care, dry-cleaning, fitness,
banking, convenience store)
• On-site or Walk -Accessible Restaurants
It is VTA's understanding that the project proponent currently achieves a substantial non -auto
mode share at its current offices at the Infinite Loop and elsewhere in Cupertino. The TIA and
DEIR should clearly document any assumptions about trip reductions for the proposed project
and provide backup data, if applicable.
Relationship to Planned Stevens Creek Bus Rapid Transit Route
The Apple Campus 2 Project site is located between one-half mile and one mile from Stevens
Creek Boulevard. In May 2009, the VTA Board adopted the VTA Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
Strategic Plan, which included three corridors for near-term implementation: El Camino Real,
Alum Rock Avenue and Stevens Creek Boulevard. VTA anticipates beginning Conceptual
Engineering for the Stevens Creek BRT route, which would connect to downtown San Jose and
the Santana Row/Valley Fair Mall area, in late 2011 or early 2012. The TIA and DEIR should
discuss the relationship of the Apple Campus 2 project to this planned BRT line, as well as the
existing Local Route 23, and ways of enhancing connectivity between the proposed campus and
Stevens Creek Boulevard.
Bicycle and Pedestrian Accommodations
The TIA and DEIR should address bicycle and pedestrian accommodations within the project
site as well as connections to the surrounding areas. VTA supports the development of bicycle
and pedestrian routes in order to improve access and connectivity of these important modes. For
the proposed campus, improvements to the bicycle and pedestrian accommodations on all the
public street frontages, improvements to crossings at major intersections such as Homestead and
Wolfe Roads, and connections across Interstate 280 to the Vallco/Cupertino Square area should
all be evaluated in the TIA and DEIR. Providing bicycle and pedestrian connections to nearby
residential areas can reduce the peak period auto trip generation by the project, and connections
to nearby restaurants and services can reduce both peak period and midday auto trips.
The TIA and DEIR should pay particular attention to bicycle and pedestrian connectivity across
Interstate 280 from the Project site. These documents should evaluate different options for
improved crossings of the highway, whether using Tantau Avenue, Wolfe Road, or a potential
new pedestrian/bicycle over -crossing between these roadways. Any improved or new crossing of
Interstate 280 should be open to the general public as well as users of the Project site.
The agenda for the EIR Scoping Session refers to `Proposed changes to off-site roadways' in the
Transportation and Circulation section. Any mitigation measures for automobile impacts should
not adversely affect bicycle or pedestrian access and safety. For example, the following
mitigations should be avoided: double right turn lanes, and eliminating or narrowing of existing
bicycle facilities and sidewalks. The effects of any off-site roadway modifications on all
transportation modes should be evaluated in the TIA and DEIR.
City of Cupertino
September 19, 2011
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Impacts of Proposed Pruneridge Avenue Closure
The TIA Report and DEIR Transportation analysis should address the impacts of the proposed
closure of Pruneridge Avenue on all modes of transportation including automobiles, pedestrians,
bicycles, transit vehicles, and emergency vehicles. The DEIR should describe alternate routes for
each of these modes, natural and man-made barriers, and measures that can be taken to mitigate
the impacts of losing this access route, particularly for bicycles and pedestrians who will feel the
greatest impact in terms of additional travel time due to the closure. The DEIR should also
estimate the change in Vehicle -Miles -Traveled and GHG emissions associated with the proposed
closure.
The proposed closing of Pruneridge Avenue between Tantau and Wolf would require VTA to
change the routing of bus Line 81. VTA requests that the City and the project proponent
coordinate with VTA early in the project review and design process to ensure that the project
does not adversely impact current and future transit customers. VTA will still need to evaluate
the best alternative routing for Line 81, but we have included initial comments on bus routing
and bus stop improvements in Attachment A to this letter. VTA requests the City's assistance in
securing an appropriate layover and turn -around area for Line 81 to allow it to effectively serve
the Vallco area, Stevens Creek Boulevard, and the new Apple Campus 2.
VTA would like to work in partnership with the City of Cupertino in the advancement of the
proposed Apple Campus 2 Project. It may be beneficial for VTA and City staff to meet to
discuss the scope of the transportation analysis, CMP and transit related topics early in the
process. Please do not hesitate to contact me at (408) 321-5784 or Robert Swierk at (408) 321-
5949 to discuss how we cA work with you in this process.
Sincerely,
9
Roy Molseed
Senior Environmental Planner
Attachments: Initial VTA Comments on Bus Routing and Stops for Apple Campus 2
cc: Glenn Goepfert, City of Cupertino representative to VTA TAC
Robert Swierk, VTA
CU 1102
Attachment A• Initial VTA Comments on Bus Routing and Stops for Apple Campus 2
The proposed closing of Pruneridge Avenue between Tantau and Wolf would require VTA to
change the routing of bus Line 81. The bus stops on both sides of Tantau between between
Homestead and Vallco will need to remain in their approximate locations. A new bus stop on
NB Tantau near the Calabazas Creek bridge should be added as a partner for the bus stop on the
southbound side of the street. The following are VTA's initial recommendations for bus stop
improvements that should be included in the Apple Campus 2 project:
SB Tantau OP Forge: This bus stop has a modified duckout with trees incorporated in the
passenger loading area which make it difficult for pedestrians, passengers, and wheel chairs to
travel. This bus stop should be improved with the following items:
• 10' X 55' PCC concrete bus pad
• Duckout or 22' curb lane so vehicle can be totally out of traffic and bike lanes.
• Minimum 8' X 40' sidewalk adjacent to bus stop to accommodate passenger activity and
pedestrians.
• Solar Bus Stop light mounted on bus stop sign pole with ADA compliant activation
button.
• All trees and landscape items should be planted outside bus stop area.
SB Tantau NS Pruneridge: Has the same situations as above and the same comments apply.
NB Tantau FS Pruneridge: The sidewalk at this bus stop is not ADA compliant, so the following
improvements should be included:
• 10' X 55' PCC concrete bus pad
• Duckout or 22' curb lane so vehicle can be totally out of traffic and bike lanes.
• Minimum 8' X 40' sidewalk adjacent to bus stop to accommodate passenger activity and
pedestrians.
• Solar Bus Stop light mounted on bus stop sign pole with ADA compliant activation
button.
• All trees and landscape items should be planted outside bus stop area.
NB Tantau FS Forge: The sidewalk at this bus stop is not ADA compliant, so the following
improvements should be provided:
• 10' X 55' PCC concrete bus pad
• Duckout or 22' curb lane so vehicle can be totally out of traffic and bike lanes.
• Minimum 8' X 40' sidewalk adjacent to bus stop to accommodate passenger activity and
pedestrians.
• Solar Bus Stop light mounted on bus stop sign pole with ADA compliant activation
button.
• All trees and landscape items should be planted outside bus stop area.
City of Cupertino
September 19, 2011
Page 2
Due to the closure of Pruneridge Avenue associated with the proposed project, a new bus stop
will likely need to be added on NB Tantau at the Calabazas Creek bridge to accommodate the
new routing. The sidewalk should be widened to 8' X 40' to accommodate ADA accessibility.
It should also include a Solar Bus Stop light mounted on bus stop sign pole with ADA compliant
activation button.
NB Wolfe FS Pruneridge: The sidewalk at this bus stop is not ADA compliant and the following
improvements should be included to address vehicle and bicycle traffic, as well as passengers
and pedestrians.
• 10' X 55' PCC concrete bus pad
• Duckout or 22' curb lane so vehicle can be totally out of traffic and bike lanes.
• Minimum 8' X 40' sidewalk adjacent to bus stop to accommodate passenger activity and
pedestrians.
• Solar Bus Stop light mounted on bus stop sign pole with ADA compliant activation
button.
• All trees and landscape items should be planted outside bus stop area.
kl%� Department of Toxic Substances Control
Deborah O. Raphael, Director
Matthew Rodriquez 700 Heinz Avenue
Secretary for Berkeley, California 94710-2721
Environmental Protection
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Mr. Gary Chao
City of Cupertino
10300 Torre Avenue
1Ie-iti*o, California 9501-4
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Governor
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Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Apple Campus 2 Project Notice of
Preparation (NOP) for the draft Environmental Impact Report (SCH#2011082055). As
you may be aware, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC)
oversees the cleanup of sites where hazardous substances have been released
pursuant to the California Health and Safety Code, Division 20, Chapter 6.8. As a
potential Responsible Agency, DTSC is submitting comments to ensure that the,
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) documentation prepared for this project
adequately addresses remediation activities which may be required to address any
hazardous substances release.
The project description section of the NOP does not include a description of the
property's past uses, nor does the projected topics of the draft Environmental Impa
Report, without this information we are unable to determine whether hazardous
substances may have been released into the soil at the Site. We strongly recomme
that a historical assessment of past uses be completed. Based on that information,
sampling may need to be conducted to determine whether there is an issue which
should to be addressed in the CEQA compliance document. If hazardous substanc
have been released, they will need to be addressed as part of this project. I
For example, if the remediation activities include the need for soil excavation, the CEQA
document should include: (1) an assessment of air impacts and health impacts
associated with the excavation activities; (2) identification of any applicable local
standards which may be exceeded by the excavation activities, including ' dust levels
and noise; (3) transportation impacts from the removal or remedial activities; and (4) risk
of upset should be there an accident at the Site
Mr. Gary Chao
September 19, 2011
Page 2
DTSC can assist your agency in overseeing characterization and cleanup activities
through our Voluntary Cleanup Program. We are aware that projects such as this one
are typically on a compressed schedule, and in an effort to use the available review tim4
efficiently, we request that DTSC be included in any meetings where issues relevant to
our statutory authority are discussed.
Please feel free to contact me by telephone at (510) 540-3835 or by email at
xbryant@dtsc.ca.gov, if you have any questions or would like to schedule a meeting.
I 1 --hank you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.
Hazardous Substances Scientist
Brownfield and Environmental Restoration Program
Berkeley Office
cc: Governor's Office of Planning and Research
State Clearinghouse
P.O. Box 3044
Sacramento, California 95812-3044
Guenther Moskat
CEQA Tracking Center
Department of Toxic Substances Contr
P.O. Box 806
Sacramento, California 95812-0806
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is i.; you for including the Californ. ia Department of Transportation (Department) in the
environmental review. process for the above -referenced proposed project. We bave reviewed the
NOP and have the following comments to offer.
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sharpening the focus,of your scope of work to address the Departuilent's concerns. Pleasesee the
Department's Guidefor 'the Preparation of Traffic Impact Studiebsite for
more information:
http-//www,dotea-govlhq/`traffops/developser,v`/operafionalsystems/reports/tisguide.pdf
the proposed project, The TIS should include, but not be limited to, the following:
1. Information on theproject's traffic impacts in terms of trip generation, distribution, and
assignment. The assumptions and methodologies used in compilingthis information should be
addressed.
2. Average Daily Traffic, (A�DT), AM � and PM peak hour volwneg.:ou all significantly affected
streets and highways, including. crossroads and controlling intersections,
3. Schematic illustration of the traffic conditions for: (1) existingi.12) existing plus project, and
(3) cumulative for the intersections in the project area.
4. Calculation of cum ulative traffic volumes should consider alf fiAffic-generating developments,
both existing and future, that would affect the State lugbwafi lities being evaluated,
'Caltrans fmprpwa moNlity acros,-? California'
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5. Mitigation measures, 8hiu-tild. consider highway and non-1ighway improvements and senices.
Special attenti ' on shoul4be given to the development of alternate sohitions to circulation
problems that do -not rely on increased bighway construction.
6. All mitigation rrieiasr' C's proposed should be fully discussed,- in'c'luding financing, scheduling
implementation responsibilities, and lead agency monitoring,
7. Impacts to transit s3i�te.m's,'�p°tnah�,andbic�yclists. Please d"op and apply pedestrian
bicycling and tr=git.,perfbrmance, or quality of service measures : .:and model pedestrian, bicycle
and. transit tri quantified.
ps that, your project -Will , generate - so that impacts aad: mitigation can be
In addition, analyze secondary impacts on pedestrians and, bicyclists that may result from any
traffic impact mi measures.. Describe any pedestrian:.andi bicycle mitigation measures
and safety counterm�a'si�t6s-that would therefore be needed as,i:*m*e*ans of maintaining and.
im proving access to transit. facilities and reducing vehicle trips�and traffic impacts on state
We look forward to reviewing the 11S,`.including Teclutical Appendices and the envirom-nental
document for tfus project.. , Please',send two copies to:
Offico-of Transit and Community Plaftning
Department of Transportation, District4
P.O. Box 23660
Oakland, CA 94623-0660
Transportation Permit
!F'rojectwork that rcquires:m"ovicrueut of oversized or excessive lohA vehicles on State roadWays,
such as Interstate'28%, requires a transportation permit issued by,the ]Department. To apply,.a.
follow from origin to destination must be submitted to the addre8sbelow,
Office of Transportation Permits'
P.O. Box 942874
Sacramento, CA 94274-0001
Further information is available bo ih&Nlowing website:
IS i
Encroachment Permit
Work that encroaches onto �the'State right -of -way -(ROW) requires,aft.blicroac—hineat pet -nut that i,
issued -by the Department.. TO a0ply, a completed..encroachmentpermit application, environment
documentation, and five(S)� of plans clearly indicating Stat�,' ROW. must be submitted to the
address below. Traffic-related.mitig*ion measures should be inowporated into the construction
plans during the encroachment permit process. I
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September 20, 2011
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Office of Permits
California DOT, District 4
P,O. Box 23660
Oakland, CA 94623-0660
Further information is available on the following website:
http-://www.dot-oa,gov/-hq?tjraffops/devolopiserv/perwit,%,.
Please feel free to Contact Brian Brandert at (510) 286-5505, if you Detre any questions regardin.
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this letter.
Sincerely,
GARY RNOLD
District Branch Chief
Local Development -Intergovernmental Review
c: Scott Morgan (State- Cloadnghouse)
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October 5, 2011
Gary Chao, City Planner
City of Cupertino
Community Development Department
10300 Torre Avenue
Cupertino, CA 95014
Re: Comments to Notice of Preparation of a Draft Environmental Impact Report
for the Apple 2 Campus
Dear Gary:
Thank you for the opportunity to review the Draft Environmental Impact Report
(DEIR) for the proposed Apple campus along Homestead Road in Cupertino.
This letter includes all City of Sunnyvale comments to the Cupertino Notice of
Preparation.
The project is an exciting one, and the City of Sunnyvale generally supports the
success of local companies. But the City of Sunnyvale also has an obligation to
its community members to ensure any new project is mitigated to a degree that
the positive way of life expected is not disrupted. We acknowledge that the City
of Cupertino will provide excellent outreach and communication to surrounding
cities and their citizens, and are anxious to support those efforts.
The following comments cover issues the City of Sunnyvale would like to be
included in the DEIR:
A. General Questions and Comments:
In addition to reviewing impacts that stem from traffic impacts, also please
review air quality impacts from traffic impacts (in addition to construction
activities).
2. Undoubtedly, a project web site will be prepared to provide information
and updates as the project moves through the process. We would
appreciate receipt of the link to any site so we can also post it to the City
of Sunnyvale web page.
ADDRESS ALL MALL TO: P.O. BOX 3707 SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA 94088-3707
TDD (408) 730-7501
Co' Printed on Recycled Paper
Gary Chao, City Planner
September 8, 2011
Page 2
3. We also request that the City of Cupertino do widespread outreach to
Sunnyvale residents. A notice to residents and property owners within
1,000 feet of the project site would be appropriate.
4. When holding public outreach meetings, it would be appreciated that the
meeting locations are convenient to Sunnyvale residents, especially since
an existing residential neighborhood is located immediately across
Homestead Road from the project site.
B. Traffic and Transportation Input for the Notice of Preparation:
1. The Apple 2 Transportation Impact Analysis (TIA) and transportation
environmental analysis should follow Santa Clara County Congestion
Management Program requirements and thresholds for analysis of both
CMP and non -CMP roadways and intersections in the City of Sunnyvale.
This is City of Sunnyvale standard procedure for scoping of intersection
analysis. All key CMP thresholds for analysis and areas of analysis
should be applied to Sunnyvale city streets, including application of
volume thresholds for selecting intersections for analysis, trip distribution
and assignment, and alternative transportation facility assessments.
2. The Apple 2 transportation environmental analysis should present a
detailed trip distribution and assignment of existing trips on Pruneridge
Avenue that will be diverted to other streets in the project area. This
analysis should consider the potential of diversion of existing trips to
neighborhood streets to the north of the proposed project site, including
but not limited to, Quail Avenue, Swallow Drive, Lochinvar Way, Peacock
Avenue, Inverness Way, Nightingale Avenue, Dunford Avenue and Marion
Way, based on ease of access and travel time as compared to alternative
routes.
3. In addition to CMP TIA scope requirements being applied to Sunnyvale
city streets, the transportation environmental analysis should include an
analysis of the potential for existing trips diverted from the elimination of
Pruneridge Drive, as well as project trips, to utilize neighborhood streets it
Sunnyvale north of the project site that would cause an exceedance of the
City's thresholds for traffic calming of 1,000 trips/day and 85 percentile
speeds exceeding 32 miles per hour or 95% trips exceeding 35 miles per
hour. Streets to be studied should include but not be limited to, Quail
Avenue, Swallow Drive, Lochinvar Way, Peacock Avenue, Inverness
Avenue, Nightingale Avenue, Dunford Avenue, and Marion Way.
4. The environmental document should consider participation or provision by
the project proponent in improvements (roadway/intersection
reconfiguration or roadway widening) to eliminate the gap that exists in the
bike lanes on Wolfe Road between Homestead Road and the beginning of
Gary Chao, City Planner
September 8, 2011
Page 3
bike lanes in Sunnyvale north of the Homestead Road intersection as
potential mitigation for increased bicycle trips from the project.
5. The environmental document should conduct an analysis of the potential
impact to bicyclist and pedestrian safety from closure of Pruneridge Drive
to bicycles and pedestrians and the consequent required re-routing to the
much busier Homestead Road.
6. The environmental analysis should consider a project alternative that
leaves Pruneridge Drive open to public traffic.
7. The transportation analysis for the environmental document should
consider traffic volumes and present potential impacts and mitigation
under existing conditions, existing plus project conditions, existing plus
approved projects/background growth conditions, and a project plus
cumulative condition that encompasses a future period of time that can be
reasonably estimated using General Plan build -out conditions, VTA 2035
transportation model conditions, or other generally accepted future growth
conditions. The existing conditions analysis should account for and
quantify vacancy of buildings on the proposed site with respect to traffic
generation.
8. Provision by the project proponent of mitigation or fair share contribution
for mitigation of impacts identified in Sunnyvale should be included in the
environmental document's mitigation program and mitigation monitoring
plan.
9. Site access analysis, specifically presentation of a trip distribution and
assignment to proposed driveways and an assessment of the potential for
queuing on public streets providing access to the site, should be provided
and appropriate mitigation or site design changes identified.
10. The transportation environmental analysis should not assume
transportation demand management measures such as company shuttles,
Ecopasses, staggered work shifts, or other measures that would lead to
significant reductions in automobile travel demand unless those measures
are either included in the project description, included as project
mitigation, included as required conditions of approval, or otherwise
formally linked to project approval with appropriate enforcement
mechanisms.
11. The noise impact on residential properties on the north side of Homestead
Road from large shuttle buses, trucks, or other large vehicles accessing
the Tantau Road entrance to the proposed project from Homestead Road
should be analyzed and appropriate mitigation identified.
Gary Chao, City Planner
September 8, 2011
Page 4
12. Vehicle progression/corridor analysis should be performed for the Wolfe
Road corridor from at least Route 280 to EI Camino Real in the AM and
PM peak hours.
13.A detailed operational analysis such as a traffic simulation should be
prepared for the proposed northbound widening of Wolfe Road adjacent to
the project site and other proposed road widening and lane additions as
part of the environmental document. The impact on traffic operations on
Wolfe Road at the Wolfe/Homestead intersection and on Wolfe Road
north of Homestead Road should be included in the analysis. Detailed
geometric drawings of Wolfe Road modifications should be included for
review as part of the environmental document, including identification of
any required property takes to provide right of way.
14. The transportation environmental analysis should consider the need for
traffic signal coordination improvements on Homestead Road with the
addition of project traffic and planned traffic growth.
The City of Sunnyvale appreciates your consideration of the requested study
scope elements described above. Should the City of Cupertino elect not to do
any of these analyses, or take a different approach to an analysis that will
provide similar results and information, we would appreciate your notification to
the City of Sunnyvale.
Thank you for your consideration in this matter. Please contact Andrew Miner,
Principal Planner, at (408) 730-7707, if you have any questions or concerns
about items discussed in this letter.
Sincerely,
AHason Hom
Director, Community Development Department
cc: Gary Luebbers, City Manager
David Kahn, City Attorney
Kent Steffens, Director of Public Works
Trudi Ryan, Planning Officer
Jack Witthaus, Transportation and Traffic Manager
Andrew Miner, Principal Planner
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September 11, 2011
To whom it may concern;
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the EIR Scoping of the Apple Campus 2
Project.
Although the completion of this project will provide an added boon to the revenues
enhancement of the City of Cupertino, it is apparent that the Apple Campus 2 Project
does little, if anything at this early stage of process, to mitigate the erosion of existing
proximate pedestrian and bicycling infrastructure which includes safe cycling passage to
and over the 1-280 interchange. It negates a neighborhood "Safe Route to School". It
interferes with the access to the extended Creek Trail Regional Route Saratoga between
Santa Clara San Thomas Aquino. In its attempt to greatly reduce required on -campus
parking space it proposes a bus shuttle service that will produce a continuous queue of
buses turning through the current bike lane impeding the passage of bicycle commuters
to other area employment loci.
The City of Cupertino is obligated to prevent future litigation and liability under the ruling
of Bonano v. Contra Costa County, section 835.4, "therefore, the reasonableness of a
public entity's creation or maintenance of a dangerous condition of its property must be
balanced against the costs and benefits of alternative means of providing the public
service, not against the alternative of discontinuing the public service." Under this ruling
the City of Cupertino is mandated to, if not specifically enhance, then not eliminate
existing bicycle and pedestrian access and infrastructure facilities.
It is apparent that the City of Cupertino has not yet held Apple Campus 2 Project to the
strictures of the Complete Streets Act of 2007 AB 1358 (Levo) As amended 04-23-07
that was enacted to "ensure that the transportation plans of California communities meet
the needs of all users of the roadway including pedestrians, bicyclists, users of public
transit, motorists, children, the elderly, and the disabled.
"By encouraging good planning for all modes of travel, the AB 1358 will make our
roads safer and more convenient places for Californians who choose to walk, ride a bike,
or take transit. Safer roads enable more people to gain the health benefits of choosing
an active form of transportation, and benefit everyone by reducing traffic congestion,
auto -related air pollution, and the production of climate -changing greenhouse gases."
Therefore the City of Cupertino is further obligated to inform Apple Campus 2 Project
that the legislated cost of doing business is to adhere to AB 1358 by providing any and
all needed pedestrian and bicycling improvement and infrastructure enhancement when
its proposal will create negative impacts to the surrounding community. Level of Service
is no longer simply defined and assumed to be "motorized traffic flow". It now applies to
"the needs of all users of the roadway "whose concerns must now be given full
consideration and accommodation.
Thank you for your consideration.
Regards,
Pat Giorni
1445 Balboa Avenue
Burlingame, Ca 94010
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FIFA Scoping Comments
Apple Campus 2 project
Given the size and scope of the proposed project the following alterji,atives need. to be individually
and completely analyzed;
Proposed P)-oi(,,,ct and.Proiect Alternatives
J. Base Project (Existing developed bUfldings) - For each. separate parcel of land provide data.
from City of Cupertino records including but nol. limited to Planning and Building Permits issued,
environmental review (traffic analysis and Level of Service at ti-nie building (s) were 110.1t), type of
approved uses & building(s) type, number of employees assumed for each site, archaeological,
strom,water, etc. Make information available on City of Cupertino's well site.
'II. Analyze the proposed Apple Campus 2 Project (the unconstrained growth alternative) with
13,000 proposed employees.
III. Provide 21COTrIp,leteanalysis of the Apple campus 2 Project alteiaiative with the 12,000
proposed employees as originally stated by Mr, Jobs to the Cupertino Council,
City oL ci
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IV. Develop audfu,Uy analyze a mid-range growth alternative between the Base PrqJect and the
Unconstrained Growth Alternative of 13,000 proposed employees.
For each of the above alternatives, excluding the Base Project Alternative, show separate analysis
eliminating, the location of the approximately 1,400 foot long parking garage facing scenic T.ntej,,Sl:at.e
280, and divide the parking garage into two separate structures. Structure A would be rotated
lengthwise parallel with the property line of the property adjacent to the west, and. Structure B
would be located lengthwise along N. Tantau Avenue northerly of Calabazas Creek. Show cul-de-
sac into Structures A and B, eliminating proposed frontage road parallel to scenic Interstate 280.
Also, show proposed location of the Power Plant eliminated and the Power Plant located inside the
proposed Structure B paTI.,zingshucturo,
For each of the above alternatives, excluding the Base Project Alternative, show separate analysis
with a new urban interchange constructed at the intersection of N. Tan.tau Avenue and Interstate
280,
.Regarding the proposed. approximately 1,400 fo(Dt long parking garage and the proposed. Power
Plant along scenic Interstate 280, fully and completely analyze the impacts, including constructing a
full-size stick niock-up of these structures where, they are proposed to be located on than site.
Completely wrap the mock-ups with reflective orange construction mesh.
Provide analysis of other known potential develo ment
p projcacts which Could irnpact the proposed
project. Include analysis of proposed Apple Campus 3 Project and the Cupertino Redevelopment
Area southerly of the subject site,
Regarding Calabazas Creek show proposed Ripw,,ian Corridor improvements along the subject
property, including removal of concrete rubble banks and improvements From. top of bank,
approximately 50 to 1,00 in width. Include analysis of a proposed General Plan change to designate
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CaJabazas Creek for Riparian Couldor irnprovenients from the subject Site Southerly to SteVens
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Creek, including restoration of the creek from VaHcQ Parkway to Stevens Creels Blvd,
Include separate analysis in the EIR of all proposed separate actions to be taken by the City
regarding this project. At the Scoping meeting 4:--'j,ty staff indicated there was approximately twelve
(12) separate such artions.
Apple EIR Comment Report as of 10/12/2011
Comment
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Please seethe attached letter, regarding Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition's comments regarding the Apple Campus 2 Scope of EIR. Please feel free to contact me with any questions
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or comments.
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Thank you,
Corinne Winter
President and Executive Director
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition
I strongly object to the planned closing of Pruneridge ave between Wolfe and and Tantau. From my neighborhood this is the most direct access to the 280 freeway. For the 25 years
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I have been in the neighborhood, I have used this road on nearly a daily basis. Please modify the plans so that this road remains open.
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Thanks
Greg
Mr. Tim Cook/Mr. Steve Jobs
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Apple
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1Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
Dear Mr. Jobs:
I have just watched your presentation to the Cupertino City Council regarding Apple's proposed new building between Wolf, Homestead, and Tantau.
Although I am technically a resident of Santa Clara, I live very close to this location. I am surrounded by Cupertino. For the record, I do not mind that you apparently propose
eliminating Pruneridge Road between Wolf and Tantau—I can go on to Homestead and loop back to my home.
I do have the obvious traffic concerns. For instance, it is clear it can be a gigantic traffic mess during the construction phase, and I am hoping you will pay for the re -design and re-
construction of a two-lane entrance ramp both on and off 1-280 at Wolf Road to accommodate the increase in traffic, if it is warranted.
The most significant concern I have is regarding the apparent decision NOT to cover the entire roof of the big building with solar panels. It was not addressed, nor did the artist's
rendition reflect the presence of such panels on the roof as far as I could tell. I hope the Cupertino City Council will mandate this. I know this is very expensive, but Apple has a great
deal of money and should be able to recoup the investment in energy savings in a few shortyears. The trees should be planted while keeping those solar panels clear to the
sun—which shines most of the time around here.
I like that you propose planting a very large number of trees (and I hope you will chose them based on long-term desirability—Le., suitable to the environment—ginkos such as
already border the property in same places are very desirable, or native trees. Please do not choose the trees based on short-term growth goals. In this area, there would be far
fewer trees were it not for irrigation (I hope you are going to use your own "gray water" for irrigation.) A native desert would not be in keeping with the desired forest you wish to
create, so please try to make your forest similar to those found in the near -by Santa Cruz mountains. Planting in keeping with the environment will also mean less water is required,
especially after the first few years.
The prevalent use of those spring blooming trees used in almost every parking lot and along many sub -division roads is NOT a good option. They are not attractive, break apart, and
become very straggly. I know thatyou can afford to put in place many very large trees and I hope that you will do so. I would ask that you keep in mind the incredibly high tendency
of many plants to produce allergic reactions.
For the record, unlike so many people—I have NO objection to wind generators if sufficient wind is available. I do not care if they make a little sound, and I do not think they are
ugly. If you placed them near the area of the proposed power generation facility (near 1-280 and further from the apartment complex, where they might even pick up wind from the
constant stream of cars) I do not see how people could object to the "noise" or their appearance either. What I DO object to is the idea of utilizing natural gas on a new facility,
which increases the likelihood that some people are going to be made ill and water is going to be contaminated by the likely process of fracking to obtain the gas. The combination
of as many solar panels as possible and wind generators would make your facility much less reliant on all other forms of energy. It would also make people like me more
comfortable with the presence of a massive building in the neighborhood.
I like the underground parking—I personally believe all corporations and shopping centers built in the future (including your building) should be required to place ALL parking UNDER
the buildings—whether the parking is underground or simply forms the lowest floors of all new large buildings. This would eliminate at least new expanses of concrete and blacktop
which absorb so much heat from the sun.
I see thatyou propose using a huge number of very expensive glass panels, so please keep in mind every possible energy consideration in the selection of those panels. Also please
keep in mind your employees great need for Vitamin D. They need a lot of exposure to the sunshine.
I also hope thatyour huge cafeteria will purchase locally -grown organic fruits and vegetables and grass-fed locally -raised meats and free-range poultry and eggs (Diestel Turkey
Farms are local enough). Full Circle Farm, one mile away, grows lots of nice organic foods and there are many other local farms as well. I would hope that you make it mandatory
NOT to offer your employees ANY genetically modified foods, and thatyour fish would all be wild.
Again, my most urgent concern is that you place solar panels on every available square foot of the roof of that very large building.
If wealthy companies like Apple do not take the lead in energy and environmental concerns, the rest of the world will never be able to afford to follow suit.
I truly appreciate your sincere consideration of my concerns.
Sincerely,
Willie Baldry
williebaldry@gmail.com
I am an 11 year resident of the neighborhood across Homestead, one of the two neighborhoods (the Birdland and Westwood Oaks) closest to the new Apple campus. I am very
happy to see so many plants, orchards, gardens and other features included in the current site plan.
Please be aware that many local people will have your new campus, its very great traffic impacts on Homestead and Wolfe, its construction phase, and the Apple employees it
attracts in their lives and as their neighbors very soon. Local home-based daycares, schools, our wonderful Full Circle Farm, concerns about cut -through traffic, impacts on
children's safety on our roads, loss of trees and loss of fitness routes are but some of the concerns. If you take the time to reach out to and get to know your new neighbors in the
Birdland and Westwood Oaks, you will find them to be generally kind, hospitable and caring individuals. I hope that community meetings will be held to address concerns and get
input.
Susan Dole 1597 Lochinvar Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Susan.dole@gmail.com 408-984-0872
Questions
The Loss of Pruneridge Road Between Tantau and Wolfe
The route from Lawrence to Wolfe will be severely compromised, resulting in a worsening of the heavy traffic along Pruneridge from Lawrence to Tantau. Also, access to the
Highway 280 and the many businesses in the Ranch 99 shopping center would suffer from inconvenient access.
There will be no exit for Apple employees from the new campus/parking areas in that direction in the event of an emergency or traffic congestion at Wolfe X Pruneridge.
I propose that the site plan be reworked to include Pruneridge Avenue in or near its current location, with an increase in the number of lanes leading from Wolfe to Apple and
Tantau, with dedicated turn and parking garage lanes for Apple traffic into the new underground parking areas.
A reworked Wolfe X Pruneridge intersection should include upgraded pedestrian and bike safety, to facilitate safety of Apple employees going to Ranch 99 for meals or shopping.
Maintaining the Existing Pedestrian -Friendly Walking Path
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Many area individuals, of all ages, use the walking route around the current HP campus for exercise. In 11 years as a resident of the area, I have observed people exercising thereat
all times of day. Maintaining this excellent fitness resource should be atop priority—and will benefit Apple employees and other neighbors. Benches are also an important part of
any walking path. This walking path is excellent because of the shade of the many mature trees and because of limited driveway access along the walking route. Please maintain this
high standard of fitness -friendly surroundings, open to the local community, as you continue to refine your plans.
Developing A Bike Friendly Campus
Many people use the Prune rid ge/Wolfe/Homestead/Tantau roads for bike commuting or recreational bicycling. Access to and through the campus from all directions should be
developed and maintained. Tantau from Stevens Creek will continue to grow as a bike route. Lighting and good signage are essential parts of such a plan. Dedicated bike/pedestrian
paths would be especially welcome. As Apple's campus develops, Apple can be a powerful advocate for longer distance bike routes to and from the area as well.
Traffic Impacts on Pruneridge Avenue and Surrounding Roads
Pruneridge Avenue already has heavy traffic at commute times, and the new construction and subsequent Apple campus will add to that traffic. I would like to know how these
impacts will be mitigated and how safety will be maintained. I am particularly interested in the safety of bicyclists along all nearby roads. Pruneridge hasjust been reduced from two
lanes each way to one lane each way.
The Birdland area (across Homestead Road) already faces drivers who try to avoid larger intersections but cutting through the residential streets. Prevention of further cut through
traffic must be a priority.
If Pruneridge Anevue does go away, the increased traffic on Homestead will need mitigation. Homestead will also be bearing the brunt of the construction traffic as well.
I greatly appreciate the grey bus system that operates for Apple employees. I hope that Apple will operate shuttles from the Lawrence train station as well as secure and sponsor a
bike route from the Lawrence train station.
mprove ment of Intersections Around the New Campus
Fhere is already a need to upgrade the safety of all intersections around the new Apple Campus. None are currently adequate for pedestrians, bicyclists or even cars. More clear
markings, lighting, countdown timers and other means are needed to improve the following - Steven's Creek X Tantau, Wolfe X Pruneridge, Wolfe X Homestead, Homestead X
Fantau, Tantau X Pruneridge. Employees may move into the Birdland and Westwood Oaks because walking to work is an attractive option. I have already observed Apple foot traffic
'requenting these areas at the lunch hour.
iolar Power and Energy Efficiency
would very much like to see Apple using solar panels instead of natural gas at its very large building. I would also like to see the bus fleet eventually change to green energy
sources.
Dpen Communication
Fo increase communication between the Apple employees in the surrounding area, I propose a Community board along a walking route to share information about the wonderful
ocal home daycares, My Dream Academy, Full Circle Farm, the Vallco and Kaiser farmer's markets, preschools, swim clubs/cabana clubs, public and private schools, lunch
Jestinations and shops (Chuck at Postal Annex, Orenchi Ramen, JumpQ Educational store, and the friendly owners at Homestead Cleaners).
imoking Areas
Many companies invite their smoking employees to smoke at the margins of the campus, but this pushes the problem onto the local community. Designated smoking areas at the
fipple campus should be away from any walking/biking paths— it is both unsightly to look at people smoking, results in litter and spreads smelly secondhand smoke onto the
Dassersby. This problem is already much in evidence along the Perimeter Road near Vallco, one of Apple's locations on the route to the current Vallco farmer's market. I would like
fipple to provide designated smoking areas off the public right of way on the new campus.
ocal Produce and Farms
I hope that Apple and the construction companies will shop for local and organic products at the excellent Full Circle Farm, and Vallco and Kaiser farmer's markets. With orchards
and gardens on the Apple campus, a close relationship with nearby Full Circle Farm seems like a natural development.
Public Access
I hope that the construction project will maintain a few viewing areas and that visitors will be welcome on campus to admire the beautiful new buildings and grounds. If you plan
interpretive exhibits, the Sunnyvale Community Center and the Los Altos History Museum have excellent farming displays.
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1) access to wolfe and 280 via pruneridge ave from santa clara side,(pedestrian, bicycle, and car- closing this street makes for a very long route via homestead or stevens creek, with Clara CA 95051
significant new traffic on pruneridge, tantau and homestead)
solution A, make 1000 ft of pruneridge a "subway" to continue existing public access thru this route, leaving the surface for the apple campus
solution B, make pedestiran and vehicle undercrossings from one side of campus to the other, and leave pruneridge as is
2 major increased traffic issue on pruneridge in santa clara between lawrence and tantau
solution: install signal at giannini/pruneridge so santa clara residential traffic has access to pruneridge. the exiting boulevard stop sign is in sufficient as many people run this stop
sign, i have lived here 30 yrs and this intersection would become an accident hub very quickly
thanks barry
I am not opposed to the Apple 2 campus as a whole. I am concerned about how the development will proceed.
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I attended the September 8th gathering on this subject.
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1 would like to suggest to city staff, 'outside sources', Planning Commissioners and City Council members that it is becoming increasingly important that the actual residents of the
city are heard... and listened to.
There has been a trend that has several residents concerned about the direction Cupertino is going in and the 'agendas' of people in 'power'.
When a large majority of participants in 'city wide meetings' are individuals who do not reside in the city.... it is hard for true residents to feel that their voices are being heard.
Mitigations:
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Retain some if not all the current entries on Homestead and Tantau to reduce the amount of traffic that would divert to Wolfe and Pruneridge.
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Circumferential driveways, much like De Anza has, would take the traffic to the garage areas.
Move plot 4 parking lot to main campus area. Plot 4 parking ingress and egress will cause traffic issues on Pruneridge and Tantau
Modify Wolfe/280 interchange to emulate De Anza/280 interchange
Increase in traffic in the Santa Clara Westwood Oaks neighborhood is a major concern. Close Pruneridge at the city border. Design closure to accommodate pedestrian, bicycle, and
emergency vehicle traffic only.
Perhaps Apple should contemplate some apartments on a corner of the campus. A multi -floor design with underground parking would have a minimal footprint and not change the
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overall character of the campus design, but would be a wonderful model for the live -where -you -work concept, and would reduce the commute hours traffic in and out of the
facility. With a desire for a futuristic campus, Apple should completely embrace the concept.
The scoping comment period closes tomorrow --yet I cannot any meaningful information on your web site concerning the project description, including project objectives, necessary
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information to developing meaningful project alternatives that reduce or minimize environmental effects of the proposal.
Please contact me by phone with the relevant information as soon as you receive this.
Thank you.
COMMENT on Apple Campus 2 EIR report.
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I devoted 10 years to serving on the Cupertino Public Safety Commission and served under as many mayors. The commission devoted much time to traffic and traffic impact
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studies. Unfortunately, most El studies almost always underestimate traffic impact both on the roads in the study and the roadways outside of the immedicate area.
My protest is the closure of Pruneridge. This particular four lane street is vital a a relieve throughfare to and from Wolfe to Lawerence Expressway. It relieve the traffic on
Homestead Road and most important the Stevens Creek Road way to Lawrence Expressway. Without this important roadway, traffice will overburden the congestion on
Homestead and Stevens Creek. I urge the planners to require that Pruneridge be kept open. If Apple needs to connect both sides of Pruneridge to maintain safe walking access for
employees on their campus. I urge the city to require either an overpass or underpass to allow Pruneridge to continue unobstructed. People from the Apartment complex should be
allowed access to Lawrence while not having to feed onto Homestead or Stevens Creek, I know from personal experience driving by the current Apple campus that employees,
pedestrians, and vehicles create a round the clock congestion. Come up with a way to keep public roads open to the public . Apple does not own the roadway. There is a public
environment that needs to be addressed in addition to traffice in the area. Not all roads lead to Apple, Kaiser, Cupertino village, Apartments, and the Santa Clara homes, easy
access for students and residents to get to and from schools, shops, homes and commutes. Please look at the impact the roads will affect the residents and visitors in all ways .
2. 1 am concerned about lack of public access to such a large access of private property. Eespecially in times of a city-wide emergency. Our emergency preparedness depends upon
knowledge and access to areas in a citywide emergency.
3. Terrorism . I am concerned about such a large concentration of people in one large building. Seems to be an inviting a target same as the WTC in NYC .
Hello, I'd like to submit my suggestions for Apple Campus 2 EIR.
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I'd like Cupertino/Apple to keep the public road open from Tantau to Wolf on Pruneridge. This will help the traffic flow to freeway. However, If Apple must close Pruneridge from
Tautau to Wolf, it is extremely important that Apple or City of Cupertino to provide a bicycle and pedestrian walkway access between Tantau and Wolfe. This bike/pedestrian
walkway will be really beneficial to both the surrounding neighbors and all the Cupertino Village restaurants/stores/Market businesses. There are lots of neigborhood families and
company workers taking daily morning, lunch and evening walks around the current HP campus. A lot of WestwoodOaks neighbors are currently walking over to Cupertino Village
for lunch, dinner, coffees and shopping in Ranch99. If Pruneridge is closed, we will have much longer walk to get Cupertino Village, so we have to drive a car. As you know, once we
get into cars, we will have lot more options/places to go for shopping, lunch or dinner. So closing Prunerdige from Tantau to Wolf is not good for both neigbors and Cupertino
Village businesses. PLEASE CONSIDER AT LEAST PROVIDE A BIKE/PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY FROM TANTAU TO WOLF if Pruneridge is losed! Oh, yes by the way, please keep those Apple
smookers away from the walkways! Please make sure that Apple will be just as a good neighbor like HP!
Thansk You for your attendtion!
Katie Chow (a Westwood Oaks neighbor on Pruneridge in Santa Clara)
Comment on Apple Campus 2 Scope of EIR
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I am concerned about the proposal to close Pruneridge Avenue between Tantau and Wolfe
Issue #1: Now that the importance of good bicycle and pedestrian access has been recognized, closing Pruneridge would be a major step back. The link between Tantau and Wolfe
via Pruneridge is a significant pedestrian/bicycle conduit between the neighborhoods that are adjacent to the Apple campus and the businesses on Wolfe avenue. At a minimum,
the city of Cupertino should guarantee that pedestrian and bicycle access be maintained on this corridor should Pruneridge be closed.
Issue #2: Closure of Pruneridge between Tantau and Wolfe may have significant unintended consequences to the traffic patterns on Pruneridge between Tantau and Lawrence. If
Pruneridge is closed, Apple must arrange the access to their property such that it will not be attractive to use Pruneridge between Lawrence and Tantau to access the campus.
My name is sitha Nordquist and I live just one block East of Tantau. I'm very disappointed to hear that once Apple takes over the HP site, Pruneridge Ave will be blocked. It is a very
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easy access to 280. But more than this, I was very upset to hear that the walkway to Wolfe on Pruneridge will also be blocked to the public. I think that this is a mistake. I've lived
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here for over eight years and my family and I and many other neighbors have taken many great walks around the HP site. It will be a great loss to the community if there is no
walkway to Wolfe. Therefore, I suggest that if Pruneridge Ave is blocked to auto traffic, a walkway should be created for public use. Please take this to great consideration.
Thank you,
Sitha Nordquist
I think Pruneridge should NOT be closed. With the increased traffic in the area, you need more roads, not fewer. Also, a great many people in this neighborhood walk for exercise
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and down to the shopping center on Wolfe, not to mention using it constantly for access to the freeway. If Pruneridge is left open, I do not see that it interferes with Apple's
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plan they can still have their campus as it is now planned and they could build walkways and roads under Pruneridge to connect their campus. This is a WIN/WIN approach so that
residents are not deprived of a major thoroughfare. If Pruneridge is closed, AT LEAST a walk through should be in the plans to accommodate local residents.
I am not opposed to the campus; however, I feel it is incumbent upon Apple to be a good neighbor and preserve the quality of the neighborhood we purchased our very expensive
homes in. The buying decision includes the amount of traffic in the area and access to freeways. HP was always a perfect neighbor and we were hoping Apple would be likewise.
I hope all people involved with these decisions from planning commission, city council to Apple will evaluate and plan as if it were their own home that was being affected.
Thank you for your consideration.
Judy Boucher
Dear Sir/Madam:
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As a resident living in a house just east of Tantau off of Pruneridge, I would like to know more information about the Apple 2 campus and the applicable zoning regulations
protecting my neighborhood.
In particular, where might I find information regarding how the property will be zoned? Are there plans to change how the site and/or the surrounding neighborhoods are zoned
now?
I'm interested in finding out the maximum allowable number of cars that will be allowed through on Pruneridge and the adjacent neighborhood streets, whether commercial
vehicles will continue to be prohibited on Pruneridge, regulations regarding noise, littering, and loitering, maximum building heights, activities allowed on the property, easements
and right of way, and so on.
These regulations protect the public trust, and I would like to understand the rights that my neighbors and I enjoy as citizens and voters in Santa Clara county and the city of Santa
Clara.
I have always found the City of Cupertino to be a good neighbor, and I am very interested to hear what actions you plan to take to protect the surrounding residential
neighborhood, even as Cupertino seeks to help out a long-time partner such as Apple.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Best regards,
Ruth Lim
Apple currently has a policy where no one is allowed to smoke on their property. Therefore, their employees and visitors go out to the sidewalk to smoke (and drop their cigarette
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butts in those places.) They have not responded to my three previous requests to designate a smoking area off of the public sidewalk so the neighbors do not have to walk through
clouds of smoke. I am concerned that consolidating all their employees in one building will mean that we will have hundreds of smokers on the sidewalk in our neighborhood. Can
the plans for the new campus designate a smoking area away from the public right of way and can Apple instruct their workers not to take their smoking breaks on the public
sidewalk?
It has been brought to my attention Pruneridge Ave between Wolfe and Tantau will be closed as part of the new contruction plan. This is unacceptable for me and my wife.
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Pruneridge now accepts a great deal of the traffic that leaves and enters HP from 1-280. Without Pruneridge traffic will have to use Homestead which will congest Homestead even
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more and make it more difficult for the homeowners in Birdland to access their properties.
Please don't only consider the wants of Apple, also consider the needs and concerns of your Sunnyvale neighbors.
Hello there!
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One of the bicycle blogs I subscribe to talked about the impact of the new Apple campus on the Homestead Bicycle thoroughfare. If the creation of the campus were to remove this
part of the corridor, it would greatly impact the efficiency and safety of the bicycle facilities in the Silicon valley. I feel it would be much more in line with the spirit of Apple to bring
improvements to their surrounding community. I propose that a two way public bicycle path (available to the public 24/7, could have a pedestrian path as well?, it would be alright
to restrict access south of the path at Apple's discretion) be built along the north edge of the property, that properly connects to public Homestead Road facilities on both ends. In
addition at some point along this path a divergent path can be provided for Apple employees as well. In this way, Apple would be not simply be removing an important part of the
local community, but showing their goodwill and support for a sustainable future for generations to come by replacing the existing public part of Homestead road with something
even better!
Stepan Shurygin
Cupertino CA
Currently the HP property has a walkway around the peremiter open to the public. I use this path for walking for health and exercise. I see many other people using it for this
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purpose as well. Will the new design allow for a path around the entire property? I hope this will be a goal of the new design.
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I am concerned as to whether or not the City has put any thought in putting up a sound barrier between the homes backed up to Apple property? These are the homes that are on
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Meadow Ave. Santa Clara with our backyards facing Apple property/drive ways/parking lots. I believe this would be the eastern border of Apples property. There is a raised earthen
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barrier and pine trees now, but although these have been helpful in the passed, (since most of the time the buildings were not being used to full capacity), that will not be sufficient
in the future with 100% utilization. Already the noise level has been bad with only workers doing some re -vamping of the buildings along that stretch.
I have lived here in S.C. since 1961 and all my children have gone to Cupertino Schools. Even though I have a Santa Clara address, my school taxes have gone to Cupertino all these
years. So I feel I am living with one foot in S.C. but still feel I should have some say as to what's behind my fence.
A little trivia; somewhere it's been stated that the previous orchard was apricots.. wrong... the orchard was prunes, walnuts and south side of Prunridge, cherries the whole time we
lived here.
Thank you
Gladys Koke
610 Meadow Ave.
S.C.
246-0883
2gladyskoke@comcast.net
I am concerned about all of the beautiful trees on the HP campus and hope that every effort is going to be made to save as many as possible.
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Who is looking to this important aspect of the new Apple campus?
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1 have looked at the plan, and have had trouble understanding the traffic flow for the new campus. It does not appear that there will be a new off ramp for Interstate 280.
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Pruneridge will no longer go through to Wolfe, so that does not allow easy access to 280. For someone approaching the campus from the east or west on 280 or leaving the campus
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to points east or west on 280, 1 would like to see a typical path that will lead from 280 to the parking lot and from the parking lot to 280.
This question may be better suited for the traffic analysis but what is the expected impact on Pruneridge East of the Apple Campus and Tantau between Steven's Creek and
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Homestead? It appears from the plans that all bus and shuttle traffic will be on Tantau? Does Pruneridge East of the Apple Campus and Tantau have any employee parking exits that
will increase traffic through our neighborhood?
Living in Westwood Caksjust East of the complex, the closure of Prundridge between Tantau and Wolf will significantly impact our route to Hwy 280 and Cupertino. An increase in
traffic on an already busy Pruneridge for the neighborhoods East of the Apple Campus is extremely undesirable and could have a negative effect on housing prices.
The Apple project will create a huge trafficjam of people going there to work, or coming back, especially since part of the acquired land was an apartment projectH H
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I would like to demand that new apartments will be built to compensate for that and also new apartment will be built where Apple is vacating previous offices (instead of keeping
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the old building as commercial property, which will add to the traffic jam.
Thanks for listening
Ari Strod
I would like to offer the following comments as input to the E I R Scoping of the Apple Campus 2 project:
1. I am very concerned about the loss of bicycle access to Pruneridge Avenue if this project is approved. It seems perverse that, at a time when the city of Santa Clara is adding bike
lanes to Pruneridge Avenue to enhance its value as a bike route, Cupertino would be considering closing it down.
For a bicyclist wishing to travel from the Rancho Rinconada area or adjacent parts of San Jose to the Cupertino Village shopping center, Pruneridge Avenue is a nearly indispensable
route. If Pruneridge Avenue were closed, such a cyclist would be forced to choose between two much less attractive routes:
-- Use Homestead Road. This would entail a left turn from Tantau onto Homestead, following by a VERY challenging left turn from westbound Homestead onto Wolfe Road.
-- Use Wolfe Road and the Wolfe Road overpass over 280. To me, this is not even an option. The Wolfe Road overpass is so bicycle-unfriendly that I refuse to use it, and think any
cyclist with due concern for his own safety would do likewise.
In short, the closing of Pruneridge Avenue would have a very negative impact for bicyclists unless some alternative connection can be provided.
2. I am also concerned about the loss of Pruneridge Avenue as a pedestrian route. I work in an office at the corner of Pruneridge and Wolfe, and I often stretch my legs by taking a
walk down this street and around the HP campus. I usually see quite a few other walkers doing likewise. We would all feel the closing of this route as a loss.
3. Although we all hope that Apple Computer will flourish in the future, I think any assessment of environmental impact should also consider the scenario where Apple experiences
a sharply reduced headcount and decides to abandon this campus. What problems would such a scenario create?
Thanks for considering these comments!
Sincerely,
Tom Schaefer
10610 E Estates Drive
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Regarding Plots 4, 5 and 6: What is the extent of the parking lot lighting intrusion upon the adjacent residences (i.e. light pollution)?
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Regarding Plot 4 parking lot:
-Current plans state that the parking lot is slated for special event usage.
-Site access and traffic diagram depict that only the Tantau entrance is used
-Examination of the site plan reveals that there is an entrance on Pruneridge
-Unless there are explicit plans in place to barricade the entrance, the assumption should be that the Pruneridge entrance will be used.
-Additionally, the impact of that lot being re -designated as a general employee parking lot (safe to state that that is inevitable) and the entrance on Pruneridge is opened.
A strong EIR should be based upon an assumption that project s like Cupertino Square and Santa Clara square (EIRs for those have already been published) are in place. Also, the
Cities of Santa Clara and Sunnyvale need to share knowledge of upcoming and potential projects (e.g. Kaiser Hospital may be planning an expansion).
The nitrogen oxide emissions from the gas fired power plant may be acceptable as currently planned. However, when future expansion takes place, the increase in emissions may
not be acceptable. Then the choices are build another power plant at a different location, re -locate the power plant, or obtain approval to exceed acceptable thresholds.
Cumulative exposure needs to be examined.
Traffic modeling needs to account for the increasing school populations. This increases the traffic due to the drop off and pick up of students (example- Cupertino High school
around 7:30 am).
Apple, like many companies, prohibits smoking on their property. This forces the employees who do smoke to go off property, typically on public sidewalks. This exposes pedestrian
traffic to unwanted secondhand smoke. This also increases the volume of cigarette butts that can flow into storm drains.
Apple is projecting that 30% of its employees will be using alternative transportation to the campus. Traffic study needs to examine of the 30% assumption as being either too high
or too low (+/- 10).
Being an iconic building, there will be what can only be described as tourist traffic. Traffic modeling needs to account for that. Where will the tourists park? Tourism will occur 7
days a week, 365 days a year.
I watched the EIR review meeting video. I think the proposed number of parking spaces for the new campus is 8900 for a max number of employees of something like 12,000. Do
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maximum? Without an idea of how the maximum number of cars coming and going from this location versus the maximum for the new campus, it is hard to have a gauge on the
traffic impact to those of us who have lived for decades within blocks of the campus.
I would like to know more about the two proposed research facilities on N. Tantau Ave., they will be very close to a residential area and also near three water tanks which could
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contain the City of Cupertino's water. I am living next door to an Apple R & D Manufacturing Industrial Facility on 10475 Bandley Dr. in Cupertino for about 30 years and have
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complained ongoingly about the pollution and contamination from this building that is seriously contaminating my family and the community. I would like to know if Apple will be
moving this facility to the new area on N. Tantau Ave. and would like that to take place very much but not at the risk of contaminating the residential and commercial areas around
the new Apple Campus 2. The facility next to my home at 10475 Bandly Drive has been processing their prototypes for over 30 years and they are taking them and manufacturing
resin molds that they put them in they then bake them in their 4 thermotron ovens this process is sending out terrible pollution. The cumulative effect over the years is killing the
population and the BAAQMD and the Air Resourse Board will do nothing to stop it. There is a ground water well next to my home and next to this Apple facility on Bandley Dr. that
has Vanadium in it at 7.0 ppb it is not regulated by the EPA but the water company tests the water for it because it is similar to Chromium 6. 1 believe the level is higher now than
7.0 ppb because back in 2005 the water company was off 3 points they stated that the level was 3.0 ppb but the City of Cupertino did a water test and found it to be 6.5 ppb so you
see what is going on. The level keeps rising and this water feeds 53,000 people here in Cupertino it is our drinking water and I am sure that is not the only thing that is in the water
they do not test for everything. There is lead on my property I had it tested at 12.9 parts per million not parts per billion this is very serious and I beleive Apple Computer is
responsible for that and are hiding under trade secretes to cover it up. I want this facility closed down at 10475 Bandley Drive they are now trying to errect some kind of inclosure
on top of the building and I am looking into that it is an eye sore and there is probably some kind of regulation against it. I would also like to comment on the design of the space
ship or donut it is rediculous and a terrible waste of space and money. We are in hard times and Apple does not seem to understand this land is scarce especially in Cupertino and it
is not getting any better the design is wasting to much space that is needed. The other issues are traffic, housing, school and hospital over crowding how will the community deal
with 10,000 or 15,000 more people remember they have families so we are notjust talking about each individual that will work at Apple.
The over all air quality will be compromised due to the added cars and trucks that will be trafficing back and forth along with the 280 freeway congestion which is already a
problem. I think shutting down any street to compensate for Apple is also wrong. The area around the facility will not be open and putting a fence around it is an eye sore and
foolish. The other issue is it maybe a terrorist attraction being such a big and expensive building look at the Pentigon and the bombing who is to say that it will not be a target.
There are to many residences around this building and the noise from the R & D facility may also be a problem they have a nitrogen tank at the Band ley Dr. facility that is filled each
week by a truck that delivers the nitrogen which makes a terrible noise that me, my family and the neighbors have to put up with for about 45 minutes. This noise is only two
decimals under the noise limit the City of Cupertino has set reduculous it is a nusience and should not be allowed all the complaining does no good. There is also a compressor noise
that goes on 24/7 and even putting a buffer noise wall around it does not help you can still hear it no one cares including Apple. These problems will and could be the same with the
new Apple 2 Campus and the other future campus so they need to be seriously addressed. The emissions from the sites needs to be evaluated and do contribute also to
Greenhouse Gas Emissions a globe) problem we all need to look at this. The fact that cancer is on the rise and one out of two people are getting cancer is so terribly serious that it
can no longer be ignored by anyone. What goes down our sewer lines needs to be evaluated at Apple who replaced of one sewer line at their Valley Green Drive facility in order to
cover up the pollution coming from the building they covered it up with a sidewalk.
They have changed out the air cond. and vent systems in 4 buildings in order to cover up the air pollution. The Bandley Drive facility has been worked on 3 times since 2005
removing the proof of the pollution. The Bubb Rd. facility now that only is used to recycle computers had to have the vent. systems taken out in 55 gal. drums because it was highly
contaminated with lead is still a problem and is not used for office space. Apple is trying to move into the old Measurex building across the street and this is a mistake it is loaded
with lead and radioactivity. The building needs to be leveled and the ground taken out and replace before anything can be built on it becasue of the overall contamination. The
contamination from Apple and other companies including Steven Creek Quarry and Lehigh Southwest Cement and Quarry needs to stop all of this is contaminating our water wells,
aquifer, streams, creeks and the bay.
Fhis building at 10475 Bandley Drive does not have a pre treatment permit but it should have but even then I am not sure how the pollution coming from this building is being
:reated down at the Sanitation Dept. in San Jose, years ago the EPA found out it was not being watched notjust Apple Pollution but other companies and so they asked them to
iigher 4 people to dojust that watch but what did they do I am not sure. I am concerned about the air, water and soil pollution that this facility any proposed facilities and the
3andley Dr. facility and so shoud the City of Cupertino, City of Santa Clara and the Santa Clara County be equily concerned and do all they can to make sure we are no longer
:ontaminated. Apple Computer has their manufacturing facilities in China they pay low wages, workers have no benifits, work long hours, they have no breaks and are subject to all
ands of pollution this is nothing to be proud of. The money from this exploitation of the workers could be put to better us helping this communist county in aiding the workers
nstead Apple wants to build a fancy building with the profits what does that say about Apple.
am sick and tired of the Corporate big shots with their big pay checks and little regard for what they do to a community and to the workers. Apple continues to hire foreign green
:ard workers here in Cupertino when there are so many people out of work that are U. S. Citizens I am upset about this and so should we all be. The land that is wasted around the
fipple 2 Campus and anyother facility should not be allowed and the City of Cupertino should turn down the project.
Fhe expense of the upkeep and caretaking of the surrounding land is an unnecessary and eventually this land will need to be utilized somehow because Cupertino is running out of
and to build homes and office buildings on. I am not sure what is going on in Steve Job's mind but I do no this he has cancer and is dying after all he has worked in these
:ontaminated building most of his adult life and so it is no wonder he is very sick. The situation is serious and no one is immune not even all of the corporate people that work for
fipple and lets not leave out President Obama.
Nell I am sure that all of the people that live around this new Apple 2 Campus farce will and should voice their objections sooner or later it is inevitable enough is enough.
look forward in the next meeting let me know when that is.
We are residents of Westwood Oaks in Santa Clara that borders the proposed Apple campus on the East. Our primary concerns are:
1 -Dust and Hazardous materials release from the demolition and construction. We would like to ensure that sufficient measures are taken to mitigate this.
2 -The potential closure of Pruneridge would disrupt the way of life for people that have depended on Pruneridge Avenue for decades. There is substantial foot and vehicular traffic
on Pruneridge from our neighborhood to reach Cupertino Village. The 280 exit from Wolfe would become inconvenient to Westwood Oaks residents, causing serious traffic issues
for us.
I use Pruneridge from Wolfe to Tantau and then Tautau SB to get across 280 by bicycle, avoiding the freeway exchange on Wolfe for example to access Stevens Creek shops and
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friends living in West San Jose. Can you accommodate at least the same quality and level of access for Bicycles (and pedestrians) when redesigning Pruneridge and Tantau on the
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new campus?
Note that I occasionally also continue on Pruneridge to Lawrence to avoid the busy traffic and associated dangers around Kaiser. Crossing Lawrence at Pruneridge and continuing in
the direction of Santana Row is much preferred to any of the other E -W connectors. So please take also the full Pruneridge access into account in addition to the Tantau access.
Then I noticed that there is a community stuck between 280, Wolfe and Pruneridge that for non -motorized access will also depend on Pruneridge for connectivity to the shops and
schools around, so that also needs to be accommodated.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the EIR Scoping of the Apple Campus 2 Project.
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Although the completion of this project will provide an added boon to the revenues enhancement of the City of Cupertino, it is apparent that the Apple Campus 2 Project does little,
if anything at this early stage of process, to mitigate the erosion of existing proximate pedestrian and bicycling infrastructure which includes safe cycling passage to and over the 1-
280 interchange. It negates a neighborhood "Safe Route to School". It interferes with the access to the extended Creek Trail Regional Route Saratoga between Santa Clara San
Thomas Aquino. In its attempt to greatly reduce required on -campus parking space it proposes a bus shuttle service that will produce a continuous queue of buses turning through
the current bike lane impeding the passage of bicycle commuters to other area employment loci.
The City of Cupertino is obligated to prevent future litigation and liability under the ruling of Bonano v. Contra Costa County, section 835.4, "therefore, the reasonableness of a
public entity's creation or maintenance of a dangerous condition of its property must be balanced against the costs and benefits of alternative means of providing the public
service, not against the alternative of discontinuing the public service." Under this ruling the City of Cupertino is mandated to, if not specifically enhance, then not eliminate existing
bicycle and pedestrian access and infrastructure facilities.
It is apparent that the City of Cupertino has not yet held Apple Campus 2 Project to the strictures of the Complete Streets Act of 2007 AB 1358 (Leno) As amended 04-23-07 that
was enacted to "ensure that the transportation plans of California communities meet the needs of all users of the roadway including pedestrians, bicyclists, users of public transit,
motorists, children, the elderly, and the disabled.
"By encouraging good planning for all modes of travel, the AB 1358 will make our
roads safer and more convenient places for Californians who choose to walk, ride a bike, or take transit. Safer roads enable more people to gain the health benefits of choosing an
active form of transportation, and benefit everyone by reducing traffic congestion, auto -related air pollution, and the production of climate -changing greenhouse gases."
Therefore the City of Cupertino is further obligated to inform Apple Campus 2 Project that the legislated cost of doing business is to adhere to AB 1358 by providing any and all
needed pedestrian and bicycling improvement and infrastructure enhancement when its proposal will create negative impacts to the surrounding community. Level of Service is no
longer simply defined and assumed to be "motorized traffic flow". It now applies to "the needs of all users of the roadway "whose concerns must now be given full consideration
and accommodation.
Thank you for your consideration.
Based upon published drawing of the project, the proposed traffic flow looks like a disaster waiting to happen. By closing Pruneridge Avenue, Apple would be blocking access to the
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campus from Wolfe Road, and as a result forcing 10,500 cars through residential areas of Santa Clara and Sunnyvale to the parking structure on the west side of the campus . This is
not fair to those two cities. While the closing of Pruneridge Avenue between Tantau Avenue and Wolfe isn't in itself unacceptable, failing to provide access to the parking structure
from Wolfe Road, is.
I'm a resident of Westwood Oaks and heartily support the new Apple campus proposal.
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hopefully traffic mitigation will be part of the plan.
Cheers,
Jim Dobbins
384 MacKenzie drive.
Regarding the Apple 2 campus "Energy Center" located in the south-east corner of the land:
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1. What will be in this center? Will it house the natural gas generators? Will it house battery backup to store the solar power generated? What fumes are associated with these?
2. Will the generators run all day and night? How loud will they be? Will they vibrate? If so, what impact will this have on the surrounding residential neighborhood? The wind
typically blows north -to -south here, so will the noise impact the proposed Main Street development?
3. What circumstances would cause this complex to draw power from the grid rather than from its solar and natural gas sources? How much would it draw and what impact would
this have on the rest of the city?
4. What about light pollution from this complex? It looks like a complex of glass and lights. What can be done to reduce light pollution to the surrounding area at night?
Thank you,
Peggy Griffin
As a nearby Santa Clara resident, off Pruneridge and Meadow, I am very concerned about the
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possible closure of Pruneridge west of Tantau. The impact on traffic and access to the 280 Freeway
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would be considerable. I can understand Apple's wish to have a private campus, but this road has
been available for the homeowners and others in this area for over 35 years. It would be very
difficult for all the Westwood Oaks residents to leave the area. There is no other outlet between
Lawrence and Tantau.
Please keep me informed about other meetings on this topic and decisions that the Council makes.
Thank You.
Sandra Rich
There is a rumor that Apple's plans call for the closure of Pruneridge from Tantau to Wolfe Road. Is that true?
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Will the Apple Campus 2 project include commuter traffic between Santa Clara and Cupertino via Pruneridge Avenue, or will Pruneridge be closed to vehicular traffic at the
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On June 7, 2011 Steve Jobs made a passionate monologue speaking to how Apple would be improving the property involved in the Apple Campus 2 project by expanding the
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greenscaping. From the published project plans it looks like all of the land involved in the project will be fenced off and closed to public access. I would like to see the outdoor areas
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of the campus be open to the public. Otherwise there is no public benefit to the land improvements; they might as well pave it all over since only Apple employees will have access
to it. The existing Apple campus locations are not fenced off and I do not see why this development should be.
1) The potential closure of Pruneridge would be a major inconvenience and traffic problem. People living in the Westwood oaks area depend on Pruneridge Ave to walk/drive to
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work.
2) Regarding the proposed power plant, we would like to know if it is going to be gas-fired/solar..... ? What kind of sound/emissions issues would be associated with this ?
Thanks
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Given the project's size, and given the professed commitment to sustainability, please employ LEED-ND (Neighborhood development) to complement LEED NC which will not
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include a entirre set of key, neighborhood-scale, campus-wide urban design and green infrasructure issues. What say you, designers and engineers, owners, and city staff?
I have several concerns regarding the Apple Campus 2 project:
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1. PRUNERIDGE: Loosing Pruneridge would force traffic onto Homestead, Stevens Creek AND Wolfe which are already busy. Pruneridge is public land and is an alternate route. It
provides a back entrance from Wolfe to Vallco and to Valley Fair not to mention a way to avoid the increased traffic around the hospital. It is key to keeping traffic on Homestead
and Stevens Creek manageable - especially during holidays, events and school start/stop times.
If the big field ever gets developed, access to that area from Wolfe to Pruneridge to Tantau is critical or you will force ALL traffic to go on Wolfe and Stevens Creek! Find an
alternative, like putting a pedestrian walkway/tunnel for employees to get across Pruneridge or make Pruneridge an overpass or something but DON'T take away the Pruneridge
public right of way or the ability to drive from Wolfe-to-Pruneridge-to-Tanta u.
2. LARGE NATURAL GAS PIPELINES: During Steve Job's presentation he mentioned that they would be generating their own power via natural gas. This means large natural gas
pipelines coming into the area. We just had an explosion due to leaks and it took a long time to turn off the gas. In an earthquake proned environment, what precautions are being
taken to a) make it easy to turn off the gas flow quickly? b) keep the residences behind the Research buildings safe if there is an explosion? c) will there be storage of natural gas on
the campus?
3. BUS NOISE: The "transit center"...how many buses are expected to park at any one time? What about the noise of all those buses coming down Homestead to get to Tantau?
Wouldn't it be better to have them be able to go from the freeway to the transit center via Pruneridge rather than add more noise to Homestead, along the residential areas?
4. TANTAU: From the map, I was not sure if access to Tantau Ave from Homestead all the way to Stevens Creek would still be public. This is critical to allow access to the field when
it is developed. Please make sure this is so.
5. CONGESTION: An estimated 13,000 employees will add congestion to the entire area. I could not tell where exactly the entrances to this complex would be from the map.
6. TOXIC WASTE: The research buildings are very close to 2 residential areas. What type of research are they doing? What toxins may be generated? What about the impact to the
homes nearby?
Thank you,
Peggy Griffin
1. Does the city intends to include in its assessment of the proposed design and alternatives:
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• Both local and subregional trip generation and VMT changes?
• Estimated mode splits from private motor vehicle, public transit, bike, and pedestrian?
• Current and estimate LOS for bike and pedestrian at surrounding intersections?
• Proposed conformance with State Complete Streets policies?
• Estimated embedded and annual CO2eMT for the site improvments and buildings'?
• Whether views from surrounding perspectives towards the site will be consistent with the City's General Plan, and other adopted policies and codes?
• Estimated reduction in transit travel time to the site from key origination points (e.g., from City Hall via 23 currently 36 minutes; from SF, 2 hr. 50 minutes; from Oakland, 2 hr. 22
minutes)?
• Walkability: Walkscore (www.walkscore.com) for travel within the site (e.g., site entry to building entry) and to the site (e.g., grocer to site).
I live close to the proposed Apple Campus in Santa Clara. Concerns are:
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1. Having Pruneridge reduced to 2lanes when the number of people driving to new campus will be greatly increased. This seems counter productive. Is someone addressing this
with government planning road revision? Not that many people will be riding bikes to work, and almost none during the rainy winter months. Does any of this make any sense?????
2. Concerned about closing Pruneridge through to Wolfe Road. This does not seem necessary, just convenient for Apple. Doe all the surrounding citizens have to sufferjust because
Apple wants something? I and many of my neighbors have lived here before Apple was even successful and we've paid taxes all these years. Our quality of life isjust as important as
Apple's desire to have an uninterrupted campus. We are not opposed to Apple's campus; we just want it to compliment and blend with our quality of life, not destroy it.
Thank you for your consideration.
Judy Boucher
1280/S Wolfe Road interchange cannot reasonably handle the traffic this project would generate.
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Partially closing Pruneridge Ave and making Pruneridge Ave a primary employee entrance will create a situation where residents on the SE corner of Pruneridge Ave and S. Wolfe
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Road wil be unable to leave their homes because of the massive amount of traffic entering the Apple campus.
Demolition of the existing buildings will cause excessive noise, dust, and truck traffic in existing neighborhoods.
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1 ask that the following topics to be addressed by the Environmental Impact Report for the Apple Campus 2 project:
1. Traffic on Wolfe, Homestead, Stevens Creek, Lawrence Expressway, Vallco Parkway, and Tantau, as well as within the residential neighborhoods directly to the east and north of
the site.
2. Parking issues, including parking on Homestead and Pruneridge.
3. Proximity and impact of new 2 story R&D buildings (located on Tantau) to the residential neighborhood directly to the east, including:
3a. Shadow/solar analysis
3b. Privacy issues
3c. Noise issues
3d. Affect on home values
4. Safety issues related to the proposed central power plant and its proximity to the nearby residential areas on Wolfe (apartments), north in Sunnyvale, and east in Santa Clara.
5. What type of R&D facilities will be built along Tantau? Will these include manufacturing facilities of any type? If yes, what kind? Please address the safety and noise issues of
these facilities (including chemicals).
6. Safety on Tantau, Homestead and Wolfe, for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Best regards,
Pamela
The limited employee access to the site will cause massive trafficjams on S. Wolfe Rd and 1280. The proposed plan will impede commerce for the rest of the community.
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Partially closing Pruneridge Ave will increase traffic on neighboring streets
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1. How will non-motorized traffic be impacted with the removal of Pruneridge Ave? As proposed, bicyclists and pedestrians would have to go around the campus. This detour is a
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2. How will traffic be impacted with the concentration ofvehicular access to only two driveways (Pruneridge @ Wolfe and Tantau @ 280)?
3. How will traffic be impacted for the residents of the Hamptons Apartments? Will they be able to enter and exit the complex during peak traffic without significant delays?
4. How does the design encourage walking, cycling, and using public transportation to access the campus for traffic reduction? There don't appear to be entry points other than
those proposed for motorized vehicles.
5. How will traffic on Wolfe @ 280 be impacted and what improvements can be made to improve traffic flow and maintain pedestrian and bicycle safety in the area? Wolfe is
already high traffic and narrow near 280.
1 am concerned with the proposed truncation of Pruneridge Ave. at Tantau, or anywhere before its current terminus at Wolfe Road. This will significantly impact the access to
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Please send me a brief e-mail that this question and comment has been received by the city. Thanks.
I realize that the city has limited say in the actual design of the proposed Apple building, however, will they be required to look into the innovations which NASA/Ames Research
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Center be implementing in their almost-finished "Green Building" wich they have named "Sustainability Base"?
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The building is supposed to be the "Greenest" building in the federal Government, and has been awarded the "Platinum" level.
1. Can we still use the Pruneridge Road between North Wolf Road and North Tantau Ave.? If not, do Apple has any compensation to the neighbers like us.
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2. Will Apple open the fitness center to the neighbers to use? (It can be only weekends)
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Hi,
I'm a Journalist and I'm researching the
growth of Apple.
I would be very grateful to know as soon
as Apple file anything for their
proposed new HQ.
Nick Stern
Phone : +1 213 448 7970 (Anytime)
mail@nickstern.com
www.nickstern.com
USA - studio/office
Cell, +1 213 448 7970
Office, +1 310 594 7776
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Mr. Geis,
I think that we all can agree that
having an Apple store/museum would be
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desirable and beneficial to our
community. Thankyouforyour
suggestionsl
Gary Chao
City Planner
City of Cupertino
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From: John Geis [mailto:jgeis@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 11:47 AM
To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept.
Subject: Apple Computer and Cupertino
Hi,
Here's a suggestion:
With Apple planning new headquarters —
bargain with them to get:
1. an Apple store in Vallco, this
shopping center needs help and Apple
owes it to their community.
2. support an Apple museum on the new
Apple campus or at Vallco mall, which
will be anew tourist destination to
bring more $'s into Cupertino.
Thanks,
- John Geis
Cupertino Resident
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contact info:
Jennifer Chang
19503 Stevens Creek Blvd #229
Cupertino, Ca. 95014
408-219-0874
cutejan 1978@gmai I.com
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From: Rosemary Everett
[mailto:everettsnj m@g mail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 1:25 PM
To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept.
Subject: Cupertino: Apple Campus 2
Thank you for the opportunity to make
comments on the proposed Apple campus.
My concern is that in the construction
planning, a maximum ofthe beautiful
trees on that land be preserved. I would
hope that this is major value in the
environmental impact study. Trees give
us oxygen and those on that land are
valuable to all of us.
Thank you,
Rosemary
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contact info:
Don Grape
10190 Firwood Dr.
Cupertino, CA. 95014
grape@gmail.com
408-777-2982
Fu, Ann
577 Hubbard Ave
Santa Clara CA 95051
408-307-5517
annfu416@yahoo.com
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Fu, Ann
577 Hubbard AVE
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408-307-5517
annfu416@yahoo.com
1. Can we still use the Pruneridge Road
between North Wolf Road and North Tantau
Ave.? If not, do Apple has any
compensation to the neighbers like us.
2. Will Apple open the fitness center to
the neighbers to use? (It can be only
weekends)
Ann, Thanks for your comments. Based on
Apple's proposal, portions of
Pruneridge, between Tantau & Wolf, will
be closed. Only a short stretch of
Pruneridge (from Wolf to a new
intersection at the entrance to the
Hampton's Apartments) will remain to
allow the Hampton residences to exit out
onto Wolf as they would now. General
public traffic is not permitted through
the campus and will be rerouted to
Homestead or Vallco Parkway/Stevens
Creek Blvd. As part of the environmental
impact review process, the City will be
evaluating the existing traffic
patterns, the traffic/roadway impacts
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associated with the campus project, and
any potential physical
mitigation/improvements that are
necessary. Ultimately, the City Council
will evaluate and make a decision based
on the technical reports and
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recommendations. The Apple campus 2 will
not be open to the public, including
their employee fitness center. Hopefully
this answers your questions, please let
us know if you have additional questions
or concerns. Thank you. Gary Chao City
Planner City of Cupertino
Dear Ann Fu, We received your Question
of 08/30/2011, which you have submitted
regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.Your questions will be studied
as part of the environmental review
process for this project. Another
opportunity for input will be available
when the draft environmental report is
issued. Be sure to check in on the Apple
Campus 2 webpage at
www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates to this project.
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contact info:
Don Grape
10190 Firwood Dr.
Cupertino, CA. 95014
grape@gmail.com
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spargrape@gmail.com
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contact info:
Ramos, Ruben
22468 Starling CT
Cupertino CA 95014
650-604-5698
R.Ramos@nasa.gov
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EMAIL MESSAGE:
From: miltko
[mailto: mi Itko@comcast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:00 PM
To: City Clerk
Cc: Clerk@santaclaraca.gov
Subject: Apple 2 Enviromentaland Traffic evaluation
Please see that these comments get
raised with the Enviromental and
Traffic evaluation committees for the
Apple 2 permit.
Many people (including myself) use
Pruneridge to access 1280 via Wolfe
Road. Closing off Pruneridge at Tantau
will eliminate this access. In
order to get access to 1280, driver's
will be forced to use the Lawrence
Expressway/Stevens Creek Blvd. access
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to the enter 1280 causing further
backup at the Lawrence/280 interchange
and additional traffic on Stevens
Creek Blvd.
Pruneridge takes significant vehicle
volume off Homestead and the
Homestead/Wolfe intersection.
Alternatively, by relocating their four
story garage further to the
north, Apple could provide a new public
access road along 1280 from
Tantau to the existing Pruneridge at the
apartments, rejoining the
existing Pruneridge to Wolfe Road.
A second alternative is to sink
Pruneridge at Tantau to a covered or
uncovered ditch by relocating their
assembly hall to southwest of the
main building, much as they apparently
intend to ditch their Pruneridge
for Apple employees access to their
basement parking area. Looking at
their plans, I originally
misinterpreted
that this action was in their
planning.
The eventual complex is a long way off,
but the first meeting to the
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pemit is on September 8.
Milt Kostner
408-747-7759
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EMAIL MESSAGE:
From: Traci Caton On Behalf Of City of
Cupertino Planning Dept.
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 9:01 AM
To, 'Chris Ellis'
Cc: Gary Chao; Piu Ghosh
Subject: RE: Environmental Impact Report
Scoping Session for the Apple Campus 2 Project Meeting
Hi Chris,
Steve Jobs will not be present for the
EIR Scoping Session to our knowledge.
There is no new information or graphics
being presented. The purpose of the
meeting will be to gather questions from
the community to be studied as part of
the environmental review process.
Please let me know if you have further
questions.
Sincerely,
Traci Caton
408.777.3253
Community Development
City of Cupertino
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-----Original Message -----
From: Chris Ellis
[mailto:chrisellis94@googlemail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 12:50 PM
To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept.
Subject: Environmental Impact Report
Scoping Session for the Apple Campus 2 Project Meeting
Hello,
Do you know if Steve Jobs will be
present at the Environmental Impact
Report Scoping Session for the Apple
Campus 2 Project?
Regards,
Chris
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
Hoffmann, John
566 Barto ST
Santa Clara CA 95051 (map)
408-296-7779
johoff@ix.netcom.com
I am concerned with the proposed
truncation of Pruneridge Ave. at Tantau,
or anywhere before its current terminus
at Wolfe Road. This will significantly
impact the access to Cupertino, where
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shop, from Santa Clara. Isn't this a
Cupertino city street? How can a
company take over a major arterial city
street without complicity from the city?
Please send me a brief e-mail that this
question and comment has been received
by the city. Thanks.
Date From Text
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Subject: Thanks for submitting your
questions for Apple Campus 2 Project EIR
TO: johoff@ix.netcom.com
Dear John Hoffmann,
We received your Question of 09/07/2011,
which you have submitted regarding the
Apple Campus 2 Project.As we proceed
with the Environmental Impact Report
(EIR), the process will focus on the
following topics for environmental
review: • Land Use and Planning
Policy • Aesthetics
Population, Employment and Housing
Biological Resources • Cultural
Resources • Geology, Seismicity
and Soils • Hydrology and Water
Quality • Hazards and Hazardous
Materials • Transportation and
Circulation • Noise
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and
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Sustainability • Air Quality
Public Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at
www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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EMAIL MESSAGE:
From: Tappan Merrick
[ ma i Ito:ta pm errick@ya hoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011, 10:03 am
To: City Council; City of Cupertino Planning Dept.
Cc: council@ci.sunnyvale.ca.us;
mayorandcou ncil@ci.santa-clara.ca. us;
Bird land Neighbors@yahoogrou ps.com;
Raynor Park Neighbors; Neighbors FirstSunnyvale;
Sunnyvale Politics;
Santa Clara Neighbors for Responsible Development(cDyahoogroups.corr
David J Butler: L Taaffe
classified as an F. When Kaiser
Subject: Closing Pruneridge for Apple
Dear Mayor Wong and Honorable Council Members,
By way of introduction, I am a 34 year
resident of Sunnyvale's Birdland East
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neighborhood (bounded by Homestead,
Wolfe, EI Camino and Lawrence) and a
Sunnyvale and Santa Clara activist.
The good news for Cupertino is that I have
mostly approved of Cupertino's
relationship with its Sunnyvale
neighbors and have enjoyed having HP as
a great corporate neighbor. Who would
ever know that a major manufacturing
area is just a few blocks from my
house?
Even after the announcement that Apple
was going to build this new campus at
Tantau and Homestead it didn't worry me
as I believed that both Cupertino and
Apple would continue to do the right
things for their Sunnyvale neighbors.
After reading today's Mercury News
article and studying the map provided,
I'm not so sure.
Allow me to explain. As you are aware,
Kaiser-Permanente has a major hospital
located at the corner of Lawrence and
Homestead. Traffic on Lawrence is
classified as an F. When Kaiser
convinced the City of Sunnyvale to
allow left turns onto Homestead out of
Kaiser's parking lot, traffic patterns
changed. Now there is much more
constant traffic traveling west on
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Homestead from Kaiser and the added
traffic light eliminates chances for
Birdland neighbors to turn left from
Swallow out of our neighborhood to head
south, including access to 1 -280 -South
at Lawrence. In fact, because of
traffic on Lawrence and traffic getting
off of 1-280 at Lawrence, I almost
never use Lawrence Expressway. Now I go out
to Homestead, turn right and then left
out to 1-280. 1 also always use the
Wolfe Road exit when returning home
along 1-280. And during rush hour in
both the morning and evening commutes I
avoid Wolfe Road between Homestead and
EI Camino because traffic is already so
bad.
The closure of Pruneridge between
Tantau and Wolfe will just mean that the cars
that used to use Pruneridge to avoid
traffic on Lawrence, Wolfe and
Homestead, including the new Apple
employees, will be forced onto one or
more of these already very busy
thoroughfares. Of course they will be
tempted to use Quail, Swallow, Peacock
and Nightengale, and then Dunford,
Inverness and and Marion as cut -through
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streets to avoid the heavier traffic.
But I promise you that we in our
Sunnyvale neighborhood will install
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traffic calming measures so often
already in use in Cupertino at
intersections like Tantau and Stevens
Creek, such as limiting traffic across
Homestead at Quail, that it will only
increase traffic problems in Cupertino.
After all, why should we care about
your traffic if Couperin and Santa Clara
already don't care about our traffic
problems?
Prune ridge already serves an excellent
purpose for all three of our cities by
helping to limit traffic on our other
busy roads and encourage easy access to
Cupertino Square. Kaisershould
install an exit leadingout to Pruneridge to
encourage traffic away from Lawrence and
Homestead, and with Apple going in just
down the street, Apple ought to take
advantage of this gem of a road which
is already there.
Please do not close off Pruneridge.
Respectfully submitted,
Tap Merrick
1091 Firth Court
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
408-249-2900
tapmerrick@yahoo.com
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I realize that the city has limited say
in the actual design of the proposed
Apple building, however, will they be
required to look into the innovations
which NASA/Ames Research Center be
implementing in their almost -finished
"Green Building" wich they have named
"Sustainability Base"?
The building is supposed to be the
"Greenest" building in the federal
Government, and has been awarded the
"Platinum" level.
Customer Communications
Ramos, Ruben
22468 Starling CT
Cupertino CA 95014 (map)
650-604-5698
R.Ramos@nasa.gov
Date From Text, 09/08/211, 09:33
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Dear Ruben Ramos,Thank you for your
suggestions and comments about the new
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Apple campus. As part of the next step
in the environmental review process,
the city will work closely with public
agencies and consultants to focus on
the many topics that have been
raised.Another opportunity for input on
these topics will be available when the
draft environmental report is issued.
Be sure to check in on the Appple Camous 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Your suggestions,
along with the many others we received from
the community, are the foundation of
the vitality and health of Cupertino.
Sincerely,David Knapp City Manager
09/08/2011, 09:33, Chao Gary Details>>
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TO: R.Ramos@nasa.gov
CC: rickk@cupertino.org,
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Ruben, Thanks for your email. We will
gladly pass along your input to the
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Apple team. Gary
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Dear Ruben Ramos, We received your
Question of 08/31/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.Your questions will be studied
as part of the environmental review
process for this project. Another
opportunity for input will be available
when the draft environmental report is
issued. Be sure to check in on the
Apple Campus 2 webpage at
www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates to this project.
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
1. How will non -motorized traffic be
impacted with the removal of Pruneridge
Ave? As proposed, bicyclists and
pedestrians would have to go around the
campus. This detour is a significant
impact. Please preserve public
bicycle/pedestrian access along the
Pruneridge Ave right-of-way.
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2. How will traffic be impacted with the
concentration of vehicular access to
only two driveways (Pruneridge @ Wolfe
and Tantau @ 280)?
3. How will traffic be impacted for the
residents of the Hamptons Apartments?
Will they be able to enter and exit the
complex during peak traffic without
significant delays?
4. How does the design encourage
walking, cycling, and using public
transportation to access the campus for
traffic reduction? There don't appear
to be entry points other than those
proposed for motorized vehicles.
5. How will traffic on Wolfe @ 280 be
impacted and what improvements can be
made to improve traffic flow and
maintain pedestrian and bicycle safety
in the area? Wolfe is already high
traffic and narrow near 280.
Customer Communications
Chan, William
10726 Linda Vista DR
Cupertino CA 95014 (map)
408-234-5850
old—man_chan@yahoo.com
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Date From Text, 09/08/2011, 11:05
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Auto Case Notification Created
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TO: old_man_chan@yahoo.com
Dear William Chan, We received your
Question of 09/08/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
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Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
The limited employee access to the site
will cause massive traffic jams on S.
Wolfe Rd and 1280. The proposed plan
will impede commerce for the rest of the
community.
Customer Communications
Submitted By: Anonymous
Date From Text, 09/08/2011, 12:05
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Auto Case Notification Created
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questions for Apple Campus 2 Project EIR
Dear Anonymous, We received your
Compliment of 09/08/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
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MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
Hi.
I ask that the following topics to be
addressed by the Environmental Impact
Report for the Apple Campus 2 project:
1. Traffic on Wolfe, Homestead, Stevens
Creek, Lawrence Expressway, Vallco
Parkway, and Tantau, as well as within
the residential neighborhoods directly
to the east and north of the site.
2. Parking issues, including parking on
Homestead and Pruneridge.
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3. Proximity and impact of new 2 story
R&D buildings (located on Tantau) to the
residential neighborhood directly to the
east, including:
3a. Shadow/solar analysis
3b. Privacy issues
3c. Noise issues
3d. Affect on home values
4. Safety issues related to the proposed
central power plant and its proximity to
the nearby residential areas on Wolfe
(apartments), north in Sunnyvale, and
east in Santa Clara.
5. What type of R&D facilities will be
built along Tantau? Will these include
manufacturing facilities of any type? If
yes, what kind? Please address the
safety and noise issues of these
facilities (including chemicals).
6. Safety on Tantau, Homestead and
Wolfe, for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Best regards,
Pamela
Customer Communications
McDaniel, Pamela
Santa Clara CA 95051 (map)
pamelam@synopsys.com
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Date From Text, 09/08/2011, 12:06
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Dear Pamela McDaniel, We received your
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Question of 09/08/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
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Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
Demolition of the existing buildings
will cause excessive noise, dust, and
truck traffic in existing
neighborhoods.
Anonymous
customer
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
Partially closing Pruneridge Ave and
making Pruneridge Ave a primary employee
entrance will create a situation where
residents on the BE corner of Pruneridge
Ave and S. Wolfe Road wil be unable to
leave their homes because of the massive
amount of traffic entering the Apple campus.
Customer Communications
Anonymous
Date From Text, 09/08/2011, 12:59
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Dear Anonymous,Thank you for your
suggestions and comments about the new
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Apple campus. As part of the next step
in the environmental review process, the
city will work closely with public
agencies and consultants to focus on the
many topics that have been
raised.Another opportunity for input on
these topics will be available when the
draft environmental report is issued. Be
sure to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Your suggestions, along
with the many others we received from
the community, are the foundation of the
vitality and health of Cupertino.
Sincerely,David Knapp City Manager
09/08/2011, 12:59, Piu Ghosh
Piu Details », Log Communication
Type: Customer Service Center
Subject: Customer Service Center
communication logged for case 21263
TO: tracic@cupertino.org
BCC: garyc@cupertino.org,
aartis@cupertino.org
Thank you for your comments with regard
to the proposed project. The City will
evaluate the environmental impacts of
the project, including the proposed
partial street closure and the traffic
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generated by it, as part of the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
required by the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA). Currently, no
decisions have been made by the City
regarding the request. Your concerns
have been noted and these issues will be
studied as part of the EIR. Thank you!
Regards, Ms. Piu Ghosh Associate Planner
09/08/2011
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Dear Anonymous, We received your
Complaint of 09/08/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
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Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
1280/S Wolfe Road interchange cannot
reasonably handle the traffic this
project would generate.
Customer Communications
Anonymous
Date From Text, 09/08/2011, 12:57
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Dear Anonymous,Thank you for your
suggestions and comments about the new
Apple campus. As part of the next step
in the environmental review process, the
city will work closely with public
agencies and consultants to focus on the
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many topics that have been
raised.Another opportunity for input on
these topics will be available when the
draft environmental report is issued. Be
sure to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Your suggestions, along
with the many others we received from
the community, are the foundation of the
vitality and health of Cupertino.
Sincerely,David Knapp City Manager
09/08/2011, 12:57, Ghosh Piu Details>>
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Thank you for your comments with regard
to the proposed project. The City will
evaluate the environmental impacts of
the proposed project, including the
traffic generated by it, as part of the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
required by the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA). Your concerns have
been noted and this issue will be
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studied as part of the EIR. Thank you!
Regards, Ms. Piu Ghosh Associate Planner
09/08/2011, 12:18, auto notification Details>>
Subject: Thanks for submitting your
questions for Apple Campus 2 Project EIR
Dear Anonymous, We received your
Complaint of 09/08/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
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Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
Partially closing Pruneridge Ave will
increase traffic on neighboring streets
Customer Communications
Anonymous
Date From Text, 09/08/2011, 12:54
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Auto Case Notification Resolved
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Dear Anonymous,Thank you for your
suggestions and comments about the new
Apple campus. As part of the next step
in the environmental review process, the
city will work closely with public
agencies and consultants to focus on the
many topics that have been
raised.Another opportunity for input on
these topics will be available when the
draft environmental report is issued. Be
sure to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Your suggestions, along
with the many others we received from
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the community, are the foundation of the
vitality and health of Cupertino.
Sincerely,David Knapp City Manager
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TO: tracic@cupertino.org
CC: bethe@cupertino.org
BCC: garyc@cupertino.org,
aartis@cupertino.org
Hello! Thank you for your comments with
regard to the proposed project. The City
will evaluate the environmental impacts
of the proposed street closure as part
ofthe Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
required by the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA). Currently, no
decisions have been made by the City
regarding the request. Your concerns
have been noted and this issue will be
studied as part of the EIR. Thank you!
Regards, Ms. Piu Ghosh Associate Planner
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Dear Anonymous, We received your
Complaint of 09/08/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
I live close to the proposed Apple
Campus in Santa Clara. Concerns are:
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1. Having Pruneridge reduced to 2 lanes
when the number of people driving to new
campus will be greatly increased. This
seems counter productive. Is someone
addressing this with government planning
road revision? Not that many people
will be riding bikes to work, and almost
none during the rainy winter months.
Does any of this make any sense?????
2. Concerned about closing Pruneridge
through to Wolfe Road. This does not
seem necessary, just convenient for
Apple. Doe all the surrounding citizens
have to suffer just because Apple wants
something? I and many of my neighbors
have lived here before Apple was even
successful and we've paid taxes all
these years. Our quality of life is
just as important as Apple's desire to
have an uninterrupted campus. We are
not opposed to Apple's campus; we just
want it to compliment and blend with our
quality of life, not destroy it.
Thank you for your consideration.
Judy Boucher
Customer Communications
Boucher, Judith
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3886 Shasta DR
Santa Clara CA 95051 (map)
jj9999bb@yahoo.com
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Send an Email
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TO: jj9999bb@yahoo.com
Hello! Ms. Boucher, Thank you for your
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
street vacation as part of the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
required by the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA). Currently, no
decisions have been made by the City
regarding the request. Your concerns
have been noted and this issue will be
studied as part of the EIR. Thank you!
Regards, Ms. Piu Ghosh Associate Planner
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Dear Judith Boucher, We received your
Question of 09/08/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
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Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
1. Does the city intends to include in
its assessment of the proposed design
and alternatives:
• Both local and subregional trip
generation and VMT changes?
• Estimated mode splits from private
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motor vehicle, public transit, bike, and
pedestrian?
• Current and estimate LOS for bike and
pedestrian at surrounding intersections?
• Proposed conformance with State
Complete Streets policies?
• Estimated embedded and annual CO2eMT
for the site improvments and buildings'?
• Whether views from surrounding
perspectives towards the site will be
consistent with the City's General Plan,
and other adopted policies and codes?
• Estimated reduction in transit travel
time to the site from key origination
points (e.g., from City Hall via 23
currently 36 minutes; from SF, 2 hr. 50
minutes; from Oakland, 2 hr. 22 minutes)?
• Walkability: Walkscore
(www.walkscore.com) for travel within
the site (e.g., site entry to building
entry) and to the site (e.g., grocer to site).
Customer Communications
Coyle, Stephen
Congress for New Urbanism, Northern
California Chapter
external customer
Oakland CA 94612 (map)
5194517007
steve@town-green.com
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Ghosh, Piu Details>>
Send an Email
Subject: RE: City of Cupertino case number 21267
TO: steve@town-green.com
Hi! Mr. Coyle, Thank you for your
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project as part of the Environmental
Impact Report (EIR) required by the
California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA). The final methodology for each
ofthe studies has not been determined.
We shall convey your comments to the EIR
Consultant. Currently, no decisions have
been made by the City regarding the
request. Your concerns have been noted
and the issues will be studied as part
of the EIR. Thank you!
Regards, Ms Piu Ghosh Associate Planner
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TO: steve@town-green.com
Dear Stephen Coyle, We received your
Question of 09/08/2011, which you have
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submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
I have several concerns regarding the
Apple Campus 2 project:
1. PRUNERIDGE: Loosing Pruneridge
would force traffic onto Homestead,
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Stevens Creek AND Wolfe which are
already busy. Pruneridge is public land
and is an alternate route. It provides
a back entrance from Wolfe to Vallco and
to Valley Fair not to mention a way to
avoid the increased traffic around the
hospital. It is key to keeping traffic
on Homestead and Stevens Creek
manageable - especially during holidays,
events and school start/stop times.
If the big field ever gets developed,
access to that area from Wolfe to
Pruneridge to Tantau is critical or you
will force ALL traffic to go on Wolfe
and Stevens Creekl Find an alternative,
like putting a pedestrian walkway/tunnel
for employees to get across Pruneridge
or make Pruneridge an overpass or
something but DON'T take away the
Pruneridge public right of way or the
ability to drive from Wolfe-to-Pruneridge-to-Tantau.
2. LARGE NATURAL GAS PIPELINES: During
Steve Job's presentation he mentioned
that they would be generating their own
power via natural gas. This means large
natural gas pipelines coming into the
area. We just had an explosion due to
leaks and it took a long time to turn
off the gas. In an earthquake proned
environment, what precautions are being
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taken to a) make it easy to turn off the
gas flow quickly? b) keep the
residences behind the Research buildings
safe if there is an explosion? c) will
there be storage of natural gas on the
campus?
3. BUS NOISE: The "transit
center"...how many buses are expected to
park at any one time? What about the
noise of all those buses coming down
Homestead to get to Tantau? Wouldn't it
be better to have them be able to go
from the freeway to the transit center
via Pruneridge rather than add more
noise to Homestead, along the
residential areas?
4. TANTAU: From the map, I was not
sure if access to Tantau Ave from
Homestead all the way to Stevens Creek
would still be public. This is critical
to allow access to the field when it is
developed. Please make sure this is so.
5. CONGESTION: An estimated 13,000
employees will add congestion to the
entire area. I could not tell where
exactly the entrances to this complex
would be from the map.
6. TOXIC WASTE: The research buildings
are very close to 2 residential areas.
What type of research are they doing?
What toxins may be generated? What
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about the impact to the homes nearby?
Thank you,
Peggy Griffin
Customer Communications
Griffin, Margaret
408 996-1149
griffin@compuserve.com
Date From Text, 09/08/2011, 16:54
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Send an Email
Subject: RE: City of Cupertino case number 21268
TO: griffin@compuserve.com
Hello! Ms. Griffin, Thank you foryour
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project as part of the Environmental
Impact Report (EIR) required by the
California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA). Currently, no decisions have
been made by the City regarding the
request. Your concerns have been noted
and these issue will be studied as part
of the EIR. Thank you!
Regards, Ms. Piu Ghosh Associate Planner
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Subject: Thanks for submitting your
questions for Apple Campus 2 Project EIR
TO: griffin@compuserve.com
Dear Margaret Griffin, We received your
Question of 09/08/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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Given the project's size, and given the
professed commitment to sustainability,
please employ LEED-ND (Neighborhood
development) to complement LEED NC which
will not include a entirre set of key,
neighborhood -scale, campus -wide urban
design and green infrasructure issues.
What say you, designers and engineers,
owners, and city staff?
Customer Communications
Coyle, Stephen
Congress for New Urbanism, Northern
California Chapter
Oakland CA 94612 (map)
5194517007
steve@town-green.com
Date From Text, 09/08/2011, 16:11
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questions for Apple Campus 2 Project EIR
TO: steve@town-green.com
Dear Stephen Coyle, We received your
Suggestion of 09/08/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
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topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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EMAIL MESSAGE:
From: Patrick Grant
[mailto:su n nyvale_trails@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 4:16 PM
To: Tappan Merrick; City Council; City
of Cupertino Planning Dept.
Cc: council@ci.sunnyvale.ca.us;
mayorandcouncil@ci.santa-clara.ca.us
Subject: Re: [PNFS] Closing PruneridgeforApple
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Suggestion
Years ago, Vallco Mall spanned Wolfe
with a wide deck to ties areas together
a unified unit with no street crossings.
Walt Disney did it in Southern
California, for the California Aventure.
The LA convention center does, Hotels in
Las Vegas does If done right, it
affords privacy, security, yet makes the
site part of the community with a
statement of placement not achievable by
any other means.. Why not get Apply
just span Pruneridge with a couple of
buildings or garden decks?
Tap does bring up in a way serious
concerns with safety fire access
especially to the residential units now
on Prunridge near Wolfe. In case of a
major windblown fire, they have only one
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long way out.access toward Wolfe with
the blockage.
Regards
Pat Grant
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EMAIL MESSAGE:
-----Original Message -----
from miltko [mailto:miltko@comcast.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 4:49 PM
To: letters Merc
Cc: City of Cupertino Planning Dept.; City Manager SC
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Subject: Re Apple 2 campus
In today's paper, why do you show the
misleading original Apple site sketch
which still shows Pruneridge as it
exists now when you know (because I
wrote to you) that Pruneridge access to
Wolfe and its 1280 entrance will be
terminated at Tantau, cutting off a
widely used route for that purpose? The
Environmental Study release plans
clearly show that for eastward Tantau,
Pruneridge enters a tunnel exclusively
for Apple employees and guests parking.
Santa Clara access is eliminated, adding
to traffic on Homestead.
Milt Kostner
530 Meadow Ave
Santa Clara
408-747-7759
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EMAIL MESSAGE:
I'm a resident of Westwood Oaks and
heartily support the new Apple campus
proposal. Hopefully traffic mitigation will be
part of the plan.
Cheers,
Jim Dobbins
384 MacKenzie drive.
Date From Text, 09/09/2011, 09:51
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Subject: Thanks for submitting your
questions for Apple Campus 2 Project EIR
Dear Anonymous, We received your
Compliment of 09/09/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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EMAIL MESSAGE:
1) The potential closure of Pruneridge
would be a major inconvenience and
traffic problem. People living in the
Westwood oaks area depend on Pruneridge
Ave to walk/drive to work.
2) Regarding the proposed power plant,
we would like to know if it is going to
be gas-fired/solar..... ? What kind of
sound/emissions issues would be
associated with this ?
Thanks
SB
Customer Communications
Anonymous
Date From Text, 09/08/2011, 16:55
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Subject: Customer Service Center
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TO: tracic@cupertino.org
Hello!! Thank you for your comments with
regard to the proposed project. The
closure of Pruneridge has been proposed
as part of the project. The City will
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evaluate the environmental impacts of
the proposed project, including the
proposed street vacation and energy
center, as part of the Environmental
Impact Report (EIR) required by the
California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA). Currently, no decisions have
been made by the City regarding the
request. Your concerns have been noted
and these issues will be studied as part
of the EIR. Thank you!
Regards, Ms. Piu Ghosh Associate Planner
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09/08/2011, 16:34, auto notification Details>>
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Subject: Thanks for submitting your
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Dear Anonymous, We received your
Question of 09/08/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
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and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
Will the Apple Campus 2 project include
commuter traffic between Santa Clara
and Cupertino via Pruneridge Avenue, or will
Pruneridge be closed to vehicular
traffic at the Cupertino - Santa Clara city border?
Customer Communications
Jensen, David
510 Meadow AVE
Santa Clara CA 95051 (map)
david@thejensens.us
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TO, david@thejensens.us
Dear David Jensen, We received your
Question of 09/08/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land
Use and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas
Emissions and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the
project at the same page. Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE,
There is a rumor that Apple's plans call
for the closure of Pruneridge from
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Tantau to Wolfe Road. Is that true?
Customer Communications
Anonymous
Date From Text, 09/08/2011, 17,14
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questions for Apple Campus 2 Project EIR
Dear Anonymous, We received your
Question of 09/08/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
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updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE,
Hi! Ms. Rich,
Thank you for your comments with regard
to the proposed project.
The closure of a section of Pruneridge
has been proposed as part of the
project. Currently, no decisions have
been made by the City regarding the
request.
The City will evaluate the environmental
impacts of the proposed street vacation
as part of the Environmental Impact
Report (EIR) required by the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Your
concerns have been noted and this issue
will be studied as part of the EIR.
We'll make sure that your name gets
added to our e -notification list so you
can receive updates when there is a
change in the status of the project.
Thank you!
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Regards,
Ms. Piu Ghosh
Associate Planner
As a nearby Santa Clara resident, off
Pruneridge and Meadow, I am very
concerned about the
possible closure of Pruneridge west of
Tantau. The impact on traffic and
access to the 280 Freeway
would be considerable. I can understand
Apple's wish to have a private campus,
but this road has been available for the homeowners and
others in this area for over 35 years.
It would be very difficult for all the Westwood Oaks
residents to leave the area. There is no
other outlet between Lawrence and Tantau.
Please keep me informed about other
meetings on this topic and decisions
that the Council makes.
Thank You. Sandra Rich
Customer Communications
Rich, Sandra
3876 Shasta DR
Santa Clara CA 95051 (map)
408-244-0427
readerl8@comcast.net
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Dear Sandra Rich, We received your
Question of 09/08/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land
Use and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas
Emissions and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the
project at the same page. Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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Regarding the Apple 2 campus "Energy
Center" located in the south-east corner
of the land:
1. What will be in this center? Will
it house the natural gas generators?
Will it house battery backup to store
the solar power generated? What fumes
are associated with these?
2. Will the generators run all day and
night? How loud will they be? Will
they vibrate? If so, what impact will
this have on the surrounding residential
neighborhood? The wind typically blows
north -to -south here, so will the noise
impact the proposed Main Street
development?
3. What circumstances would cause this
complex to draw power from the grid
rather than from its solar and natural
gas sources? How much would it draw and
what impact would this have on the rest
of the city?
4. What about light pollution from this
complex? It looks like a complex of
glass and lights. What can be done to
reduce light pollution to the
surrounding area at night?
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Thank you,
Peggy Griffin
Customer Communications
Griffin, Margaret
408 996-1149
griffin@compuserve.com
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Dear Margaret Griffin, We received your
Question of 09/08/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
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opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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EMAIL MESSAGE:
FORWARDED TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND
PLANNING COMMISSIONERS ON 9/12/2011:
Hello Beth,
I was shocked to hear on the news
recently that 200 Cupertino residents
had come to either a City Council or
Planning Commission meeting to protest
Apple's plans to expand their world
headquarters onto the old HP Wolf Road site.
Both my wife and I have lived in
Cupertino for 22 years. We're thrilled
that arguably the most respected
corporation on the planet is expanding
in Cupertino. If a city had one wish,
they'd probably wish for Apple to move
to their city! It's terrific from
economic, demographic, and "brand"
perspectives. Consider how we'd all
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feel if Apple chose to move to another town.
Please forward this to the appropriate
party. Ifyou need more letters like
this tell me who to send them to, and
I'll ask my friends to send in their perceptions.
Dan Marshall
Cell, 408-859-6628
Home, 408-253-7096
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EMAIL MESSAGE:
From: pat giorni [mailto:hogorni@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 4:15 PM
To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept.
Subject: EIR Scoping of the Apple Campus 2 project
To whom it may concern;
I sent the following comment to you on
your Connect line, case #21284. I have
also attached a copy of the letter for
easy reproduction:
Thank you for the opportunity to comment
on the EIR Scoping of the Apple Campus 2
Project.
Although the completion of this project
will provide an added boon to the
revenues enhancement of the City of
Cupertino, it is apparent that the Apple
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Campus 2 Project does little, if
anything at this early stage of process,
to mitigate the erosion of existing
proximate pedestrian and bicycling
infrastructure which includes safe
cycling passage to and over the 1-280
interchange. It negates a neighborhood
"Safe Route to School". It interferes
with the access to the extended Creek
Trail Regional Route Saratoga between
Santa Clara San Thomas Aquino. In its
attempt to greatly reduce required
on -campus parking space it proposes a
bus shuttle service that will produce a
continuous queue of buses turning
through the current bike lane impeding
the passage of bicycle commuters to
other area employment loci.
The City of Cupertino is obligated to
prevent future litigation and liability
under the ruling of Bonano v. Contra
Costa County, section 835.4, "therefore,
the reasonableness of a public entity's
creation or maintenance of a dangerous
condition of its property must be
balanced against the costs and benefits
of alternative means of providing the
public service, not against the
alternative of discontinuing the public
service." Under this ruling the City of
Cupertino is mandated to, if not
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specifically enhance, then not eliminate
existing bicycle and pedestrian access
and infrastructure facilities.
It is apparent that the City of
Cupertino has not yet held Apple Campus
2 Project to the strictures of the
Complete Streets Act of 2007 AS 1358
(Leno) As amended 04-23-07 that was
enacted to "ensure that the
transportation plans of California
communities meet the needs of all users
ofthe roadway including pedestrians,
bicyclists, users of public transit,
motorists, children, the elderly, and
the disabled.
"By encouraging good planning for all
modes of travel, the AS 1358 will make
our roads safer and more convenient places
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for Californians who choose to walk,
ride a bike, or take transit. Safer
roads enable more people to gain the
health benefits of choosing an active
form of transportation, and benefit
everyone by reducing traffic congestion,
auto -related air pollution, and the
production of climate -changing
greenhouse gases."
Therefore the City of Cupertino is
further obligated to inform Apple Campus
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2 Project that the legislated cost of
doing business is to adhere to AS 1358
by providing any and all needed
pedestrian and bicycling improvement and
infrastructure enhancement when its
proposal will create negative impacts to
the surrounding community. Level of
Service is no longer simply defined and
assumed to be "motorized traffic flow".
It now applies to `the needs of all
users of the roadway"whose concerns
must now be given full consideration and
accommodation.
Thank you for your consideration.
Regards,
Pat Giorni
1445 Balboa Avenue
Burlingame, Ca 94010
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COMCATE MESSAGE,
Thank you for the opportunity to comment
on the EIR Scoping of the Apple Campus 2 Project
Although the completion of this project
will provide an added boon to the
revenues enhancement of the City of
Cupertino, it is apparent that the Apple
Campus 2 Project does little, if
anything at this early stage of process,
to mitigate the erosion of existing
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proximate pedestrian and bicycling
infrastructure which includes safe
cycling passage to and over the 1-280
interchange. It negates a neighborhood
"Safe Route to School". It interferes
with the access to the extended Creek
Trail Regional Route Saratoga between
Santa Clara San Thomas Aquino. In its
attempt to greatly reduce required
on -campus parking space it proposes a
bus shuttle service that will produce a
continuous queue of buses turning
through the current bike lane impeding
the passage of bicycle commuters to
other area employment loci.
The City of Cupertino is obligated to
prevent future litigation and liability
under the ruling of Bonano v. Contra
Costa County, section 835.4, "therefore,
the reasonableness of a public entity's
creation or maintenance of a dangerous
condition of its property must be
balanced against the costs and benefits
of alternative means of providing the
public service, not against the
alternative of discontinuing the public
service." Under this ruling the City of
Cupertino is mandated to, if not
specifically enhance, then not eliminate
existing bicycle and pedestrian access
and infrastructure facilities.
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It is apparent that the City of
Cupertino has not yet held Apple Campus
2 Project to the strictures of the
Complete Streets Act of 2007 AS 1358
(Leno) As amended 04-23-07 that was
enacted to "ensure that the
transportation plans of California
communities meet the needs of all users
ofthe roadway including pedestrians,
bicyclists, users of public transit,
motorists, children, the elderly, and
the disabled.
"By encouraging good planning for all
modes of travel, the AS 1358 will make
our
roads safer and more convenient places
for Californians who choose to walk,
ride a bike, or take transit. Safer
roads enable more people to gain the
health benefits of choosing an active
form of transportation, and benefit
everyone by reducing traffic congestion,
auto -related air pollution, and the
production of climate -changing greenhouse gases."
Therefore the City of Cupertino is
further obligated to inform Apple Campus
2 Project that the legislated cost of
doing business is to adhere to AS 1358
by providing any and all needed
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pedestrian and bicycling improvement and
infrastructure enhancement when its
proposal will create negative impacts to
the surrounding community. Level of
Service is no longer simply defined and
assumed to be "motorized traffic flow".
It now applies to `the needs of all
users of the roadway"whose concerns
must now be given full consideration and
accommodation.
Thank you for your consideration.
Customer Communications
giorni, pat
1445 Balboa AVE
Burlingame CA 94010 (map)
650-347-8418
hogorni@yahoo.com
Date From Text, 09/11/2011, 16,07
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TO, hogorni@yahoo.com
Dear pat giorni, We received your
Question of 09/11/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
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process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE,
Based upon published drawing of the
project, the proposed traffic flow looks
like a disaster waiting to happen. By
closing Pruneridge Avenue, Apple would
be blocking access to the campus from
Wolfe Road, and as a result forcing
10,500 cars through residential areas of
Santa Clara and Sunnyvale to the
parking structure on the west side of
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the campus . This is not fair to those
two cities. While the closing of
Pruneridge Avenue between Tantau Avenue
and Wolfe isn't in itself unacceptable,
failing to provide access to the parking
structure from Wolfe Road, is.
Customer Communications
Anonymous
Date From Text, 09/11/2011, 07,51
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Dear Anonymous, We received your
Complaint of 09/11/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review'Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
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opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
I use Pruneridge from Wolfe to Tantau
and then Tautau SB to get across 280 by
bicycle, avoiding the freeway exchange
on Wolfe for example to access Stevens
Creek shops and friends living in West
San Jose. Can you accommodate at least
the same quality and level of access
for Bicycles (and pedestrians) when
redesigning Pruneridge and Tantau on
the new campus?
Note that I occasionally also continue
on Pruneridge to Lawrence to avoid the
busy traffic and associated dangers
around Kaiser. Crossing Lawrence at
Pruneridge and continuing in the
direction of Santana Row is much
preferred to any of the other E -W
connectors. So please take also the full
Pruneridge access into account in
addition to the Tantau access.
Then I noticed that there is a
community stuck between 280, Wolfe and Pruneridge
that for non -motorized access will also
depend on Pruneridge for connectivity
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to the shops ans schools, around, so that
also needs to be accommodated.
Customer Communications
van de Water, Cor
748 Alice AVE
Mountain View CA 94041 (map)
408-480-5225
cor_van_de_water@hotmai I.com
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TO: cor_van_de_water@hotmail.com
Dear Cor van de Water, We received your
Question of 09/12/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land
Use and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
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Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas
Emissions and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
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updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the
project at the same page. Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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EMAIL MESSAGE:
From: Steven Whyte Studios
[mailto:sculptu@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:45 PM
To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept.
Subject: Apple Campus 2
To Whom it May Concern,
Will you please add our email address to
your distribution list for any further
updates regarding this project? We are
interested in the discussion regarding a
possible sculpture of Mr. Jobs. Thank
you!
Noel Gray
Executive Assistant to Mr. Whyte
Carmel's most revisited Gallery...
Steven Whyte, Sculpter
Steven Whyte's Open Sculpture Studios
Su Vecino Court Dolores Street between
5th & 6th
Carmel, CA
sculptu@earthlink.net
tel: 831 620-1917
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-----Original Message -----
From: miltko
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[mailto: mi Itko@comcast.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 4:49 PM
To: letters Merc
Cc: City of Cupertino Planning Dept.;
City Manager SC
Subject: Re Apple 2 campus
In today's paper, why do you show the
misleading original Apple site sketch
which still shows Pruneridge as it
exists now when you know (because I
wrote to you) that Pruneridge access to
Wolfe and its 1280 entrance will be
terminated at Tantau, cutting off a
widely used route for that purpose? The
Environmental Study release plans
clearly show that for eastward Tantau,
Pruneridge enters a tunnel exclusively
for Apple employees and guests parking.
Santa Clara access is eliminated, adding
to traffic on Homestead.
Milt Kostner
530 Meadow Ave
Santa Clara
408-747-7759
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
We are residents of Westwood Oaks in
Santa Clara that borders the proposed
Apple campus on the East. Our primary
concerns are:
1 -Dust and Hazardous materials release
from the demolition and construction. We
would like to ensure that sufficient
measures are taken to mitigate this.
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2 -The potential closure of Pruneridge
would disrupt the way of life for people
that have depended on Pruneridge Avenue
for decades. There is substantial foot
and vehicular traffic on Pruneridge from
our neighborhood to reach Cupertino
Village. The 280 exit from Wolfe would
become inconvenient to Westwood Oaks
residents, causing serious traffic
issues for us.
Customer Communications
Anonymous
Date From Text, 09/14/2011, 15:45
Ghosh Piu, Details Log Communication
Type: Customer Service Center
Subject: Customer Service Center
communication logged for case 21290
TO: tracic@cupertino.org
Hello! Thank you for your comments
regarding the proposed project. The City
will evaluate the environmental impacts
ofthe proposed project, including
demolition and traffic, as part of the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
required by the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA). Currently, no
decisions have been made by the City
regarding the request. Your concerns
have been noted and this issue will be
studied as part of the EIR. Thank you!
Regards, Ms. Piu Ghosh Associate Planner
09/14/2011
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Subject: Thanks for submitting your
questions for Apple Campus 2 Project EIR
Dear Anonymous, We received your
Complaint of 09/14/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerelt, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
I would like to offer the following
comments as input to the EIR Scoping of
the Apple Campus 2 project:
1. 1 am very concerned about the loss of
bicycle access to Pruneridge Avenue if
this project is approved. It seems
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perverse that, at a time when the city
of Santa Clara is adding bike lanes to
Pruneridge Avenue to enhance its value
as a bike route, Cupertino would be
considering closing it down.
For a bicyclist wishing to travel from
the Rancho Rinconada area or adjacent
parts of San Jose to the Cupertino
Village shopping center, Pruneridge
Avenue is a nearly indispensable route.
If Pruneridge Avenue were closed, such a
cyclist would be forced to choose
between two much less attractive routes:
-- Use Homestead Road. This would
entail a left turn from Tantau onto
Homestead, following by a VERY
challenging left turn from westbound
Homestead onto Wolfe Road.
-- Use Wolfe Road and the Wolfe Road
overpass over 280. To me, this is not
even an option. The Wolfe Road overpass
is so bicycle -unfriendly that I refuse
to use it, and think any cyclist with
due concern for his own safety would do
likewise.
In short, the closing of Pruneridge
Avenue would have a very negative impact
for bicyclists unless some alternative
connection can be provided.
2. 1 am also concerned about the loss of
Pruneridge Avenue as a pedestrian route.
I work in an office at the corner of
Pruneridge and Wolfe, and I often
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stretch my legs by taking a walk down
this street and around the HP campus. I
usually see quite a few other walkers
doing likewise. We would all feel the
closing ofthis route as a loss.
3. Although we all hope that Apple
Computer will flourish in the future, I
think any assessment of environmental
impact should also consider the scenario
where Apple experiences a sharply
reduced headcount and decides to abandon
this campus. What problems would such a
scenario create?
Thanks for considering these commentsl
Sincerely,
Tom Schaefer
10610 E Estates Drive
Cupertino CA 95014
Customer Communications
Schaefer, Tom
10610 E Estates DR
Cupertino CA 95014 (map)
408-257-7734
tom.schaefer@acm.org
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Suggestion of 09/18/2011, which you have
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submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE,
I would like to know more about the two
proposed research facilities on N.
Tantau Ave., they will be very close to
a residential area and also near three
water tanks which could contain the City
of Cupertino's water. I am living next
door to an Apple R & D Manufacturing
Industrial Facility on 10475 Bandley Dr.
in Cupertino for about 30 years and have
complained ongoingly about the pollution
and contamination from this building
that is seriously contaminating my
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family and the community. I would like
to know if Apple will be moving this
facility to the new area on N. Tantau
Ave. and would like that to take place
very much but not at the risk of
contaminating the residential and
commercial areas around the new Apple
Campus 2. The facility next to my home
at 10475 Bandly Drive has been
processing their prototypes for over 30
years and they are taking them and
manufacturing resin molds that they put
them in they then bake them in their 4
thermotron ovens this process is sending
out terrible pollution. The cumulative
effect over the years is killing the
population and the BAAQMD and the Air
Resourse Board will do nothing to stop
it. There is a ground water well next to
my home and next to this Apple facility
on Bandley Dr. that has Vanadium in it
at 7.0 ppb it is not regulated by the
EPA but the water company tests the
water for it because it is similar to
Chromium 6. 1 believe the level is
higher now than 7.0 ppb because back in
2005 the water company was off 3 points
they stated that the level was 3.0 ppb
but the City of Cupertino did a water
test and found it to be 6.5 ppb so you
see what is going on. The level keeps
rising and this water feeds 53,000
people here in Cupertino it is our
drinking water and I am sure that is not
the only thing that is in the water they
do not test for everything.
There is lead on my property I had it
tested at 12.9 parts per million not
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parts per billion this is very serious
and I beleive Apple Computer is
responsible for that and are hiding
under trade secretes to cover it up. I
want this facility closed down at 10475
Bandley Drive they are now trying to
errect some kind of inclosure on top of
the building and I am looking into that
it is an eye sore and there is probably
some kind of regulation against it. I
would also like to comment on the design
of the space ship or donut it is
rediculous and a terrible waste of space
and money. We are in hard times and
Apple does not seem to understand this
land is scarce especially in Cupertino
and it is not getting any better the
design is wasting to much space that is
needed. The other issues are traffic,
housing, school and hospital over
crowding how will the community deal
with 10,000 or 15,000 more people
remember they have families so we are
not just talking about each individual
that will work at Apple. The over all
air quality will be compromised due to
the added cars and trucks that will be
trafficing back and forth along with the
280 freeway congestion which is already
a problem. I think shutting down any
street to compensate for Apple is also
wrong. The area around the facility will
not be open and putting a fence around
it is an eye sore and foolish. The other
issue is it maybe a terrorist attraction
being such a big and expensive building
look at the Pentigon and the bombing who
is to say that it will not be a target.
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There are to many residences around this
building and the noise from the R & D
facility may also be a problem they have
a nitrogen tank at the Bandley Dr.
facility that is filled each week by a
truck that delivers the nitrogen which
makes a terrible noise that me, my
family and the neighbors have to put up
with for about 45 minutes. This noise is
only two decimals under the noise limit
the City of Cupertino has set reduculous
it is a nusience and should not be
allowed all the complaining does no
good. There is also a compressor noise
that goes on 24/7 and even putting a
buffer noise wall around it does not
help you can still hear it no one cares
including Apple. These problems will and
could be the same with the new Apple 2
Campus and the other future campus so
they need to be seriously addressed. The
emissions from the sites needs to be
evaluated and do contribute also to
Greenhouse Gas Emissions a globel
problem we all need to look at this. The
fact that cancer is on the rise and one
out of two people are getting cancer is
so terribly serious that it can no
longer be ignored by anyone. What goes
down our sewer lines needs to be
evaluated at Apple who replaced of one
sewer line at their Valley Green Drive
facility in order to cover up the
pollution coming from the building they
covered it up with a sidewalk.
They have changed out the air cond. and
vent systems in 4 buildings in order to
cover up the air pollution. The Bandley
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Drive facility has been worked on 3
times since 2005 removing the proof of
the pollution. The Bubb Rd. facility now
that only is used to recycle computers
had to have the vent. systems taken out
in 55 gal. drums because it was highly
contaminated with lead is still a
problem and is not used for office
space. Apple is trying to move into the
old Measurex building across the street
and this is a mistake it is loaded with
lead and radioactivity. The building
needs to be leveled and the ground taken
out and replace before anything can be
built on it becasue of the overall
contamination. The contamination from
Apple and other companies including
Steven Creek Quarry and Lehigh Southwest
Cement and Quarry needs to stop all of
this is contaminating our water wells,
aquifer, streams, creeks and the bay.
This building at 10475 Bandley Drive
does not have a pre treatment permit but
it should have but even then I am not
sure how the pollution coming from this
building is being treated down at the
Sanitation Dept. in San Jose, years ago
the EPA found out it was not being
watched not just Apple Pollution but
other companies and so they asked them
to higher 4 people to do just that watch
but what did they do I am not sure. I
am concerned about the air, water and
soil pollution that this facility any
proposed facilities and the Bandley Dr.
facility and so shoud the City of
Cupertino, City of Santa Clara and the
Santa Clara County be equily concerned
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and do all they can to make sure we are
no longer contaminated. Apple Computer
has their manufacturing facilities in
China they pay low wages, workers have
no benifits, work long hours, they have
no breaks and are subject to all kinds
of pollution this is nothing to be proud
of. The money from this exploitation of
the workers could be put to better us
helping this communist county in aiding
the workers instead Apple wants to build
a fancy building with the profits what
does that say about Apple.
I am sick and tired of the Corporate big
shots with their big pay checks and
little regard for what they do to a
community and to the workers. Apple
continues to hire foreign green card
workers here in Cupertino when there are
so many people out of work that are U.
S. Citizens I am upset about this and so
should we all be. The land that is
wasted around the Apple 2 Campus and
anyother facility should not be allowed
and the City of Cupertino should turn
down the project.
The expense of the upkeep and caretaking
ofthe surrounding land is an
unnecessary and eventually this land
will need to be utilized somehow because
Cupertino is running out of land to
build homes and office buildings on. I
am not sure what is going on in Steve
Job's mind but I do no this he has
cancer and is dying after all he has
worked in these contaminated building
most of his adult life and so it is no
wonder he is very sick. The situation is
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serious and no one is immune not even
all of the corporate people that work
for Apple and lets not leave out President Obama
Well I am sure that all of the people
that live around this new Apple 2 Campus
farce will and should voice their
objections sooner or later it is
inevitable enough is enough.
I look forward in the next meeting let
me know when that is.
Customer Communications
Helgerson , Cathy
20697 Dunbar DR
Cupertino CA 95014 (map)
408-253-0490
sharpset1 @AOL.com
Date From Text
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TO, sharpset1@AOL.com
Dear Cathy Helgerson , We received your
Complaint of 09/15/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
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Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
31607044
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
9/19/2011 09:42:58.58
COMCATE MESSAGE:
I watched the EIR review meeting video.
I think the proposed number of parking
spaces for the new campus is 8900 for a
max number of employees of something
like 12,000. Do you have any statistics
on the current number of parking spaces
and the maximum number spaces used
within this footprint when HP/Compaq was
are their employment maximum? Without
an idea of how the maximum number of
cars coming and going from this location
versus the maximum for the new campus,
it is hard to have a gauge on the
traffic impact to those of us who have
lived for decades within blocks of the
campus.
Customer Communications
31706044
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
9/19/2011 09:45:00.00
Borchardt, Gary
1619 Redwing AVE
Sunnyvale CA 94087 (map)
4089841384
giborchardt@gmail.com
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09/17/2011 12:09 auto notification Details »
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TO: giborchardt@gmail.com
Dear Gary Borchardt, We received your
Question of 09/17/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerel , David Knapp City Manager
31706044
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
9/19/2011 09:45:00.00
COMCATE MESSAGE:
Regarding Plots 4, 5 and 6: What is the
extent of the parking lot lighting
intrusion upon the adjacent residences
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(i.e. light pollution)?
Regarding Plot 4 parking lot:
-Current plans state that the parking
lot is slated for special event usage.
-Site access and traffic diagram depict
that only the Tantau entrance is used
-Examination of the site plan reveals
that there is an entrance on Pruneridge
-Unless there are explicit plans in
place to barricade the entrance, the
assumption should be that the Pruneridge
entrance will be used.
-Additionally, the impact of that lot
being re -designated as a general
employee parking lot (safe to state that
that is inevitable) and the entrance on
Pruneridge is opened.
A strong EIR should be based upon an
assumption that project s like Cupertino
Square and Santa Clara square (EIRs for
those have already been published) are
in place. Also, the Cities of Santa
Clara and Sunnyvale need to share
knowledge of upcoming and potential
projects (e.g. Kaiser Hospital may be
planning an expansion).
The nitrogen oxide emissions from the
gas fired power plant may be acceptable
as currently planned. However, when
future expansion takes place, the
increase in emissions may not be
acceptable. Then the choices are build
another power plant at a different
location, re -locate the power plant, or
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obtain approval to exceed acceptable
thresholds. Cumulative exposure needs
to be examined.
Traffic modeling needs to account for
the increasing school populations.
This increases the traffic due to the
drop off and pick up of students
(example- Cupertino High school around
7:30 am).
Apple, like many companies, prohibits
smoking on their property. This forces
the employees who do smoke to go off
property, typically on public sidewalks.
This exposes pedestrian traffic to
unwanted secondhand smoke. This also
increases the volume of cigarette butts
that can flow into storm drains.
Apple is projecting that 30% of its
employees will be using alternative
transportation to the campus. Traffic
study needs to examine of the 30
assumption as being either too high or
too low (+/- 10).
Being an iconic building, there will be
what can only be described as tourist
traffic. Traffic modeling needs to
account for that. Where will the
tourists park? Tourism will occur 7
days a week, 365 days a year.
Customer Communications
Robbins, Pat
3895 Pruneridge AVE
Santa Clara CA 95051 (map)
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p.robbins@comcast.net
Date From Text
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TO: p.robbins@comcast.net
Dear Pat Robbins, We received your
Question of 09/17/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincere) , David Knapp City Manager
31607044
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
9/19/2011 13:43:43.43
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From: Darrel Lum
[mailto:d rlu m@pacbel I. net]
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 11:37 AM
To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept.;
Aarti Shrivastava
Subject: Fw: Comment for EIR for Apple Campus 2
Re: Closure of Pruneridge Avenue
Consideration of an alternative plan:
Retain Pruneridge Avenue
as a minor traffic connector and bike
route as in the General Plan.
Retention would allow the continuation
of the recent change in the City of
Santa Clara portion of Pruneridge
Avenue, consisting ofthe conversion of
4 traffic lanes to 2 traffic lanes, a
center turn lane and bike lanes. It
would continue to be an east/west traffic
connector, reducing traffic on
Homestead Avenue.
Retention of Pruneridge Avenue would be
accomplished by
connecting the North and South sections
of Apple Campus 2 by the
construction of either a tunnel or a
bridge. The bridge would be the best
alternative since Apple plans to
construct below grade parking; the
excavated dirt would be used a base for
the bridge approaches. The bridge
could be as wide as necessary to provide
an extension of the campus, a
parkway, a pedestrian walkway, and /or
transportation corridor. Since
security is a concern, the elevated
surface area would not be accessible to
the public; security perimeter along
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Pruneridge Avenue would be a
continuation of the security perimeter
around the rest of the Apple
Campus 2.
It would satisfy the project objectives
of "creat(ing) a physically
unified campus community that respects
Apple's security needs in part
through perimeter protection." The
design could "provide an expanse of
open and green space for Apple
employees' enjoyment," another project
objective.
The retained location of Pruneridge
Avenue does not affect the Apple
building.
The City and Apple would negotiate for
the necessary air rights for
the bridge; similar to the air rights
regarding the Wolfe Avenue bridge
between the west and east side of the
Vallco Shopping Mall.
Submitted by Darrel Lum on September 19, 2011
31607044
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
9/19/2011 15,08,51.51
COMCATE MESSAGE,
The Apple project will create a huge
traffic jam of people going there to
work, or coming back, especially since
part of the acquired land was an
apartment project!!!!
I would like to demand that new
apartments will be built to compensate
for that and also new apartment will be
built where Apple is vacating previous
offices (instead of keeping the old
building as commercial property, which
will add to the traffic jam.
Thanks for listening
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Ari Strod
Customer Communications
Strod, Ari
10462 Scenic CIR
Cupertino CA 95014 (map)
408 446 3894
ramaril@comcast.net
Date From Text
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Subject, Thanks for submitting your
questions for Apple Campus 2 Project EIR
TO, ramari1@comcast.net
Dear Ari Strod, We received your
Suggestion of 09/19/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review'Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
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automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
31607044
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
9/19/2011 15:08:51.51
EMAIL MESSAGE:
From: Keithddl527@aol.com [mailto:Keithddl527@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 5:27 pm
To: City Council
Cc: City Clerk; City of Cupertino
Planning Dept.
Subject: Apple 2 Campus EIR : submission of public comment
Regarding the Apple 2 Campus EIR,
public input to be submitted by Sept. 19,2011
Dear Honorable Mayor, City Council
members, Director of Community
Development and City Clerk,
Apple is requesting the city to offer
exceptions and special mitigation for
providing a secure border around the
proposed Apple Campus 2 site,
specifically by closing Pruneridge Ave.,
returning that road's public access &
right of way back to the property
owners, for the owner's to then develop
that land as they desire.
The New Apple campus is an integral ring
building, one suited to a well defined
space, one which can be easily built on
the existing parcel lot as currently
defined, one currently bordered by
Pruneridge Ave., but not bisected by it,
as Apple wishes to now link adjacent
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parcels as if they are now one and the
same parcel for development purposes.
The fitting of the Apple Ring building
is surely feasible on the currently
proposed single parcel lot size, not
requiring the closing of Pruneridge Ave,
which has remained a non regulated
public access road and right of way for
many decades now.
Pruneridge Ave. allows residents from
both the City of Santa Clara and
Sunnyvale to cross easily into the City
limits of Cupertino to access and
energize our own local retail which is
struggling already — local retail in
Cupertino will be greatly impacted by
this strategic road closure, the closing
which is being proposed by Mayor Wong,
as he described to the Channel 5 News
that night after the first Apple Campus
EIR public hearing, as being "a
necessary hit to our community."
I wish for our elected and appointed
city officials to avoid from offering
further special compensating exceptions
or mitigation outside the scope of any
EIR (Environmental Impact Review) or a
FIR (Fiscal Impact Report). I hope our representatives will refrain form
further concessions being unilaterally
offered to Apple prior to any mitigation
review being completed as part of
required due diligence, which surely
must include our participating and
informed public's oversight and inputs
first; ONLY then can our residents agree
or disagree that any exception or
mitigation being considered is truly "a
necessary hit to our community" if this
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community penalty is in fact the voiced
mandate and will of the majority, or
not, as the case might be.
Pruneridge Avenue does not affect the
Apple Campus Ring building as it is
currently proposed, even Apples own
proposed placement of copious new
landscape buffers and open space, placed
up to and also on to the opposite South
side of Pruneridge Ave., are not being
impacted, allowing Pruneridge Ave to
remain open and maintain emergency
vehicle access (please note the new
Kaiser Hospital recently built right by
the proposed Apple 2 campus), alternate
truck access to the new Apple Campus
loading docks, maintain a necessary
commuter route and mass transit links
both into and out of our city — which
will surely be impacted by the new Apple
building itself when finished and
brought on line - with some 12,000
estimated employees — each using there
own chosen from of transportation, be it
public or private — but all congregated
atone high-density campus building.
Pruneridge Ave. can be transformed into
either a "bridge" or a "tunnel" keeping
the public right of way open to local
traffic, while providing the added
"separation from the public" that Apple
describes it so deeply desires.
I do not know the actual depth and
breadth of Apples perceived security
issues, so I will have to assume Apple
is perhaps evoking a preemptive NIMBY
attitude toward our residents, to all
neighboring business and adjacent
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property owners too; will Apple's
neighbors have unfettered access to
Wi-Fi around the Apple Campus at retail
and housing located close by the campus,
or will these stakeholders have to "take
a hit" and go with out this
infrastructure to pacify Apples perhaps
extreme and unspecified security fears?
access rights for our entire community.
I hope both "air" and "subterranean"
rights for the Pruneridge Ave. road are proactively discussed, pursued
and then maintained by our city & county and not
fettered away with out fair market
compensation and/or required mitigation,
all done with public oversight and our
prior approval.
I would like EIR and FIR reviews to be
described to the public and media at
large as being non political in nature
and are a legal requirement for
insuring federal, state, county and city
laws are followed and this process is
for the benefit of all stakeholders
concerned.
I was deeply horrified to see Channel 5
News reporter's describe after the very
first meeting of Cupertino's two-year
long EIR Review of Apples new project as
being a rowdy nest of NIMBY residents &
adjoining neighbors to our city, all who
appear to be against Apple's project,
even going so far to bate bay area TV
listeners that Apple might take its
project to another city out of spite of
our local residents.
The Channel 5 news team publicly
chastised our community for doing
nothing more then following the legally
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required processes for approving a
development application in our city and
if this issue of inappropriate outside
influence is not addressed proactively
at all future public hearings sponsored
by the City of Cupertino, then
stakeholders will be deprived of there
civil rights & democratic participation
in the EIR or FIR due to fear of
political, social and financial
reprisals: each key grievances for a
possible reconsideration or law suit
against any future city council approval
of Apple's proposed Campus project,
contested by those stakeholders found disenfranchised by forces
not kep in check, as only the preemptive due
diligence and sensitivity by our public
officials could provide to all
participating stake holders - we who
desire to participate with out undo
hindrance.
Click here: Neighbors Voice Opposition
To Apple's Plans For Second Cupertino
Campus a CBS San Francisco
Or cut and paste this link: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/09 /
08/neighbors-voice-opposition-to-apple% E2%80%99s-plans-for-
second-cupertino-cam
Equally complex corporate development
projects being proposed in surrounding
cites, by other major corporations
developing campuses in those same
cities, many corporations have offered
mitigation in the form of either tunnels
and/or bridges, to be paid for by these
same corporations to reduce the obvious
impacts that there own large
developments will have on the
communities they desire to develop and
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do business in.
I am confident Apple will also desire to
provide key infrastructure enhancements
to our city, as there competitors are
doing in adjacent cities, to mitigate
any and all development issues they
might impose on our city, now and in the
future.
I have to ask why "fiscal impacts" are
not considered part of the EIR
mitigation process too; a FIR (Fiscal
Impact Report) includes a wide range of
affecting or effecting factors, fore
example, Apples still to be negotiated Development Agreement,
one describing mitigation for Apple's future goals in
not only the North Vallco Area but in
the city at large, then for impacts to
our community values: building set
backs, heights and density, then impacts
to public utilities and there
infrastructures, then impacts to city
parks & recreation opportunities, then
impacts to existing and future retail
and housing opportunities, and etc.),
why all "fiscal issues" must also be
folded into the EIR's final
recommendation report, which is what I
am recommending be done by the Apple 2
Campus EIR review commission.
I would also recommend that the Apple
Campus DA (Development Agreement) be
open to public hearings, if for the
public to only listen to, as this
agreement will outline all of the fiscal
and environmental consequences that out
city must plan for not only now, but in
the future too. I hope this agreement
will be discussed either before the
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approval of an EIR or an FIR, or at the
very least, prepared in parallel.
I have included a sample of a FIR review proposal:
Click here: http://cdn.sfgate.com/chronicle/acrobat/ 2007/04/05
/49ers_econ_im pact report. pdf
(also attached to this email)
This FIR review is regarding the Sports
Arena being proposed for the City of Santa Clara
This document describes many of the
regional impacts that the stadiums
advocate's will need to mitigate for in
the future, and that mitigation should
be included as priority impacts in the
EIR review process too.
Here is a sample FIR preparation
proposal offered by BAE (Bay Area
Economics) to the City of Menlo Park
regarding the FaceBook development
project currently proposed for that
city.
A similar FIR document could be
generated for the City of Cupertino too,
perhaps facilitated by the hiring of an
outside contractor, like BAE (Bay Area
Economics), who are just one example of
a FIR document provider:
Click here:http://service.govdelivery.com /docs/CAMENLO
/CAME NLO_97/CAM EN LO_97_2011 0614_050000_ en. pdf
(also attached to this email)
I would hope that an unbiased FIR and a
then a correlated EIR are provided by
outside contractors who will insure that
an independent review processes might
take place, one that would allow for a
politically detached review, one more
likely to propose comprehensive
mitigation and then allow open dialog
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with all stake holders about it,
invested stake holders being; Apple, our residents, our city staff and
then our city council too.
Please insure that Calabazas Creek
corridor is conserved for a creek side
park development and kept open as a
county trail access & link, as the North
Vallco area is currently deprived of its
own local park and recreational
resources, surely the Hampton Apartment
residents are but one likely stakeholder
to be concerned.
I would like to know the impacts to the
creek water quality, impacts to our
county, city and for Apple's own
campus's flood abatement requirements,
and then any riparian environment
impacts caused by the generating plant
proposed by Apple to be place not far
from the creek itself, then what
protections will be put in place during construction of the Campus and
generating plant itself (also for moving
any key public utility infrastructure)
but done to alleviate negative impacts
to the creek environment.
I would like to know if Apple will be
building any housing on it's property,
now or in the future, as they acquired a commercial parcel which has
been rezoned for housing — how will those living
there in the future, be impacted by
development mitigation decided today,
but not taking into account the welfare
of those who might live in Apple housing
in the future? Can Apple vacate its
right to build housing on that parcel,
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alleviating this potential problem?
Could Apple make affordable housing
available on another parcel, one located
in another part of our city, perhaps in
joint talks with our city and interested
property owners who could offset ABAG
requirements to balance regional office
projects to available housing also close
by?
Non-partisan sponsored and facilitated
dialog would allow for a fair and open
review of all mitigation issues,
offering a safe environment where all
stakeholders can discuss key issues with
out any solicited or unsolicited
influence from either Apple or there
supporters, with all community
stakeholders remaining on an equal
footing and keeping focus on key
proposals which would provide true
comprehensive mitigation for all impacts
to our community and surrounding
neighbor cities too, now and in the
future.
Please reply that my concerns will be
included in the Apple 2 Campus EIR and
perhaps in any FIR report you might
propose doing too.
Thank you.
Keith Murphy
10159 East Estates Drive
Cu ertino, CA 95014
31607044.00
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
9/20/2011 14:35:06.06
PHONE MESSAGE:
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Alice Pon (408) 248-6309
She received a letter about the Apple 2
Campus and has trafic/circulation
concerns.
Please return her call.
31607044.00
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10/7/2011 15:49:21.21
EMAIL MESSAGE:
Ms. Helgerson,
Thank you very much for taking the time
to comment. These comments wil be
forwarded to the EIR consultant for
review and analysis.
Regards,
Piu
From: Cathy Helgerson
[sharpset1 @aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:20 AM
To: Piu Ghosh
Subject: Re: City of Cupertino case number 21293
Hi,
I would like to add somethings to my
comments as follows:
The R & D Facilities need to be
evaluated that are next to the Space
ship building that are part of the
project and it seems that the Hazardous
Material portion of the project has not
been determined and this needs to be
determined. The Fire Dept receives a
Haz. Mat. map or drawing ofthe
Departments and they keep track of what
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is going on but I think the City of
Cupertino does not get copies and this
is the problem. The City Planning,
Zoning and Permitting Dept., and the
City Council members should get copies
so that they know what is going into the
buildings and what environmental safe
guards are in place to keep the
pollution from getting into the Air,
Water and Soil this is crucial.
The people citizens that live around
these facilities should be able to also
view the drawings and reports from what
I know and understand not very many
people know they can go to the Fire
Dept. and look through the records and
view all of the processes that are
taking place in the building.
I have one of these R & D Facilities
next to my home and I can tell you they
are full of pollution I just attended a
City Council meeting last night and only
go to speak for 2 min. but that was
enough to get the word out.
The other thing is the parking garage
proposed there needs to be air pollution
monitors set up because of the pollution
that the cars will emit and I am not in
favor of underground parking. The fact
that our ground water can also be
contaminated by these underground
parking garages is evident and this also
should be looked into.
The waste of space on the surface is
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terrible Cupertino can not waste space
there is little space as it is so please
not that as well.
I am not happy with the expense no one
mentioned how much this Space Ship Donut
disaster is going to cost I can imagine
with the over kill on the design and the
glass it will be to costly that is
really something to be sorry about.
The buildings that will be left
unoccupied after Apple moves their
people over is another thing to take
into consideration of course Apple will
not tell anyone what is moving and who
that is another wrongdoing. I
especially feel this with the R & D
Manuf. Facility at 10475 Bandley Drive
the Facility I live next to I would like
them to move immediately but it looks
like that is not going to happen now or
maybe never.
The City of Cupertino needs to make sure
we are protected and so please help me
with this. I am very disappointed in the
City and the City Council that is
evident but maybe there is some hope if
you can do something about this.
Please e-mail me that you have added all
this to my case 21293
Thanks
Cathy Helgerson
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From: piug <piug@cupertino.org>
To,sharpset1 <sharpset1@AOL.com>
Sent: Mon, Sep 19, 2011 12:11 pm
Subject: Re: City of Cupertino case number 21293
Hi! Ms. Helgerson,
Thank you for your comments with regard
to the proposed project.
The City will evaluate the environmental
impacts of the proposed project as part
ofthe Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
required by the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Currently, no decisions have been made
by the City regarding the request. Your
concerns have been noted and this
issue will be studied as part of the EIR.
Thank you!
Regards,
Ms. Piu Ghosh
Associate Planner
31607044.00
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This question may be better suited for
the traffic analysis but what is the
expected impact on Pruneridge East of
the Apple Campus and Tantau between
Steven's Creek and Homestead? It appears
from the plans that all bus and shuttle
traffic will be on Tantau? Does
Pruneridge East of the Apple Campus and
Tantau have any employee parking exits
that will increase traffic through our
neighborhood?
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Living in Westwood Oaks just East of the
complex, the closure of Prundridge
between Tantau and Wolf will
significantly impact our route to Hwy
280 and Cupertino. An increase in
traffic on an already busy Pruneridge
for the neighborhoods East of the Apple
Campus is extremely undesirable and
could have a negative effect on housing
prices.
Customer Communications
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Hi! Mr. Waldorf, Thank you foryour
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project, including the proposed street
vacation and associated traffic impacts,
as part of the Environmental Impact
Report (EIR) required by the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Currently, no decisions have been made
by the City regarding the request. Your
concerns have been noted and these
issues will be studied as part of the
EIR. Thank you!
Regards, Ms. Piu Ghosh
Associate Planner
09/21/2011
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Dear Keith Waldorf, We received your
Question of 09/21/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
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webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
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the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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I have looked at the plan, and have had
trouble understanding the traffic flow
for the new campus. It does not appear
that there will be a new off ramp for
Interstate 280. Pruneridge will no
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longer go through to Wolfe, so that does
not allow easy access to 280. For
someone approaching the campus from the
east or west on 280 or leaving the
campus to points east or west on 280, 1
would like to see a typical path that
will lead from 280 to the parking lot
and from the parking lot to 280.
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TO: jim.fonda@me.com
Hi! Mr. Waldorf, Thank you for your
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project, including the associated
traffic impacts and proposed street
vacation, as part of the Environmental
Impact Report (EIR) required by the
California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA). Currently, no decisions have
been made by the City regarding the
request. Your concerns have been noted
and these issues will be studied as part
of the EIR. Thank you!
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Dear Jim Fonda, We received your
Suggestion of 09/21/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at
www.cupertino.org/applecampus2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
31607044.00
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10/7/2011 15:56:35.35
COMCATE MESSAGE:
I am concerned about all of the
beautiful trees on the HP campus and
hope that every effort is going to be
made to save as many as possible.
Who is looking to this important aspect
of the new Apple campus?
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Date From Text 09/21/2011 14:51
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TO: everettsnjm@gmail.com
Hi! Ms. Everett, Thank you foryour
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project, including the proposed tree
removals, as part ofthe Environmental
Impact Report (EIR) required by the
California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA). Currently, no decisions have
been made by the City regarding the
request. Your concerns have been noted
and these issues will be studied as part
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Dear Rosemary Everett, We received your
Question of 09/21/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
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ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
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will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
31607044.00
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10/7/2011 15:57:52.52
COMCATE MESSAGE:
I am concerned as to whether or not the
City has put any thought in putting up a
sound barrier between the homes backed
up to Apple property? These are the
homes that are on Meadow Ave. Santa
Clara with our backyards facing Apple
property/drive ways/parking lots. I
believe this would be the eastern border
of Apples property. There is a raised
earthen barrier and pine trees now, but
although these have been helpful in the
passed, (since most of the time the
buildings were not being used to full
capacity), that will not be sufficient
in the future with 100% utilization.
Already the noise level has been bad
with only workers doing some re -vamping
of the buildings along that stretch.
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I have lived here in S.C. since 1961 and
all my children have gone to Cupertino
Schools. Even though I have a Santa
Clara address, my school taxes have gone
to Cupertino all these years. So I feel
I am living with one foot in S.C. but
still feel I should have some say as to
what's behind my fence.
A little trivia; somewhere it's been
stated that the previous orchard was
apricots.. wrong... the orchard was
prunes, walnuts and south side of
Prunridge, cherries the whole time we
lived here.
Thankyou
Gladys Koke
610 Meadow Ave.
S.C.
246-0883
2gladyskoke@comcast.net
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Date From Text 09/21/2011 15:00
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TO: 2gladyskoke@comcast.net
Hil Ms. Koke, Thank you foryour
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project, including the noise impacts, as
part ofthe Environmental Impact Report
(EIR) required by the California
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Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Currently, no decisions have been made
by the City regarding the request. Your
concerns have been noted and these
issues will be studied as part of the
EIR. Thank you! Regards, Ms. Piu Ghosh
Associate Planner
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TO: 2gladyskoke@comcast.net
Dear Koke, We received your Question of
09/21/2011, which you have submitted
regarding the Apple Campus 2 Project.As
we proceed with the Environmental Impact
Report (EIR), the process will focus on
the following topics for environmental
review:Land Use and Planning
PolicyAestheticsPopulation, Employment
and Housing Biological ResourcesCultural
ResourcesGeology, Seismicity and
SoilsHydrology and Water Quality Hazards
and Hazardous MaterialsTransportation
and Ci rcu lation NoiseG reen house Gas
Emissions and SustainabilityAir
QualityPublic Services and Utilities
Another opportunity for input on these
topics will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
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at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
31607077.00
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
Currently the HP property has a walkway
around the peremiter open to the public.
I use this path for walking for health
and exercise. I see many other people
using it for this purpose as well. Will
the new design allow for a path around
the entire property? I hope this will
be a goal of the new design.
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Date From Text 09/21/2011 15:49
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Subject: Re: City of Cupertino case number 21319
TO: mcgrath@hotmail.com
Hi! Mr. McGrath, Thankyouforyour
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project, including the proposed street
vacation, as part of the Environmental
Impact Report (EIR) required by the
California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA). Currently, no decisions have
been made by the City regarding the
request. Your concerns have been noted
and these issues will be studied as part
of the EIR. Thank you!
Regards, Ms. Piu Ghosh Associate Planner
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Dear Martin McGrath, We received your
Suggestion of 09/21/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
31607044.00
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
10/7/2011 15:59:52.52
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Hello therel
One of the bicycle blogs I subscribe to
talked about the impact of the new Apple
campus on the Homestead Bicycle
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thoroughfare. If the creation of the
campus were to remove this part of the
corridor, it would greatly impact the
efficiency and safety of the bicycle
facilities in the Silicon valley. I feel
it would be much more in line with the
spirit of Apple to bring improvements to
their surrounding community. I propose
that a two way public bicycle path
(available to the public 24/7, could
have a pedestrian path as well?, it
would be alright to restrict access
south of the path at Apple's discretion)
be built along the north edge of the
property, that properly connects to
public Homestead Road facilities on both
ends. In addition at some point along
this path a divergent path can be
provided for Apple employees as well. In
this way, Apple would be not simply be
removing an important part of the local
community, but showing their goodwill
and support for a sustainable future for
generations to come by replacing the
existing public part of Homestead road
with something even better!
Stepan Shurygin
Cupertino CA
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Hi! Thank you for your comments with
regard to the proposed project. The City
will evaluate the environmental impacts
ofthe proposed project, including the
proposed street vacation and associated
traffic impacts, as part of the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
required by the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA). Currently, no
decisions have been made by the City
regarding the request. Your concerns
have been noted and these issues will be
studied as part of the EIR. Thank you!
Regards, Ms. Piu Ghosh Associate Planner
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Dear Anonymous, We received your
Suggestion of 09/21/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
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will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
31607044.00
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
10/7/2011 16:00:58.58
EMAIL MESSAGE:
Dear Ms. Poon,
Thank you for your comments. I will
forward them to the Environmental Impact
Report (EIR) consultant for evaluation
in the EIR required by the California
Environmental Quality Act.
Regards,
Piu
From: Alice Poon
[mailto:tong laipi ng2@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 10:38 AM
To: Piu Ghosh; Dennis Poon
Subject: RE: Concerns re: Apple Campus 2
Yea, it accurately summarizes my
concern. Sometimes I have to eat in a
restaurant along the bus route of 26.
After eating, I will take bus 26 to go
home. I go home by stopping at the 26
bus stop of Wolf and Prunridge, and that
after walk along Prunridge to go home.
Now that you want to close that part of
Prunridge for Apple, how can I walk home
then. To walk Homestead of Valco Parkway
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is too far for me. When I buy the house
of 537, Hubbard 15 years ago. I would
never imagine I would one day live next
to Apple and hence could not walk along
Prunridge to get to shops. I need the
Chinese newspaper in the morning from a
mall in Wolf and Homestead; I also need
to get back from prayere meeting at
night when the bus 26 drops me off at
Wolf and Prunridge. Those are all my
normal way of life, or way of life that
gives me quality of life. If you close
down the bus stop of Tantau and
Prunridge because of Apple, the next bus
stop will be Homestead and Tantau to
board a 81 bus to go to the Central Park
Library in Kiely and Homestead. That's
too far for me to walk with a lot of
books in my handbag.
I feel that to put a very big Apple next
to my house is detrimental to me. That's
why I had tried to call Piu a few times
in the City Hall to try to give a verbal
comment over the phone.
From: PiuG@cupertino.org
31607044.00
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
10/7/2011 16:02:09.09
To: tonglaiping2@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:48:31 -0700
Subject: Concerns re: Apple Campus 2
Hil Ms. Poon,
It was a pleasure speaking with you this
morning. I am sending this email to
summarize your concerns as they relate
to the proposed Apple Campus 2:
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1. Will the bus stop at the corner
of N. Tantau Avenue and Pruneridge
Avenue, where the Route 81 bus stops, be
retained with the development of the new
campus?
2. 1 understand that your address
is: 537 Hubbard Avenue, Santa Clara, CA
95051. You mentioned that you live close
to the corner of Pruneridge and N.
Tantau Avenue and use Pruneridge Avenue
to access Wolfe Road and amenities along
it. The closure of Pruneridge Avenue
will inconvenience your route to get to
the Ranch 99 shopping center and the bus
stop at the corner of Pruneridge Avenue
and N. Wolfe Road where the Route 26 bus
stops.
Please confirm that these comments
accurately capture your concerns. If
they do not, please do not hesitate to
email me.
I look forward to hearing from you
soonl
Regards,
Piu
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It has been brought to my attention
Pruneridge Ave between Wolfe and Tantau
will be closed as part of the new
contruction plan. This is unacceptable
for me and my wife. Pruneridge now
accepts a great deal of the traffic that
leaves and enters HP from 1-280. Without
Pruneridge traffic will have to use
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Homestead which will congest Homestead
even more and make it more difficult for
the homeowners in Birdland to access
their properties.
Please don't only consider the wants of
Apple, also consider the needs and
concerns of your Sunnyvale neighbors.
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Subject: RE: City of Cupertino case number 21322
TO: johnandlucyg@sbcglobal.net
Hi! Mr. Grambow, Thank you for your
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project, including the proposed street
vacation, as part of the Environmental
Impact Report (EIR) required by the
California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA). Currently, no decisions have
been made by the City regarding the
request. Your concerns have been noted
and these issues will be studied as part
of the EIR. Thank you!
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Dear John Grambow, We received your
Complaint of 09/22/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
31607044.00
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
10/7/2011 16:03:18.18
COMCATE MESSSAGE:
Apple currently has a policy where no
one is allowed to smoke on their
property. Therefore, their employees
and visitors go out to the sidewalk to
smoke (and drop their cigarette butts in
those places.) They have not responded
to my three previous requests to
designate a smoking area off of the
public sidewalk so the neighbors do not
have to walk through clouds of smoke. I
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am concerned that consolidating all
their employees in one building will
mean that we will have hundreds of
smokers on the sidewalk in our
neighborhood. Can the plans for the new
campus designate a smoking area away
from the public right of way and can
Apple instruct their workers not to take
their smoking breaks on the public
sidewalk?
Customer Communications
Date From Text 09/28/2011 10:53
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Subject: RE: City of Cupertino case number 21338
TO: tvosper@sbcglobal.net
Hi! Thank you for your comments with
regard to the proposed project. The City
will evaluate the environmental impacts
of the proposed project as part of the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
required by the California Environmental
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regarding the request. Your concerns
have been noted and will be forwarded to
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Dear Tracey Vosper, We received your
Question of 09/28/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
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Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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My name is sitha Nordquist and I live
just one block East of Tantau. I'm very
disappointed to hear that once Apple
takes over the HP site, Pruneridge Ave
will be blocked. It is a very easy
access to 280. But more than this, I was
very upset to hear that the walkway to
Wolfe on Pruneridge will also be blocked
to the public. I think that this is a
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mistake. I've lived here for over eight
years and my family and I and many other
neighbors have taken many great walks
around the HP site. It will be a great
loss to the community if there is no
walkway to Wolfe. Therefore, I suggest
that if Pruneridge Ave is blocked to
auto traffic, a walkway should be
created for public use. Please take this
to great consideration.
Thank you,
Sitha Nordquist
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Hi!, Thank you for your comments with
regard to the proposed project. The City
will evaluate the environmental impacts
ofthe proposed project, including the
proposed street vacation, as part of the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
required by the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA). Currently, no
decisions have been made by the City
regarding the request. Your concerns
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TO: sithanordquist@yahoo.com
Dear Sitha Nordquist, We received your
Suggestion of 09/28/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSSAGE:
I think Pruneridge should NOT be closed.
With the increased traffic in the area,
you need more roads, not fewer. Also, a
great many people in this neighborhood
walk for exercise and down to the
shopping center on Wolfe, not to mention
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using it constantly for access to the
freeway. If Pruneridge is left open, I
do not see that it interferes with
Apple's plan they can still have their
campus as it is now planned and they
could build walkways and roads under
Pruneridge to connect their campus.
This is a WIN/WIN approach so that
residents are not deprived of a major
thoroughfare. If Pruneridge is closed,
AT LEAST a walk through should be in the
plans to accommodate local residents.
I am not opposed to the campus; however,
I feel it is incumbent upon Apple to be
a good neighbor and preserve the quality
of the neighborhood we purchased our
very expensive homes in. The buying
decision includes the amount of traffic
in the area and access to freeways. HP
was always a perfect neighbor and we
were hoping Apple would be likewise.
I hope all people involved with these
decisions from planning commission, city
council to Apple will evaluate and plan
as if it were their own home that was
being affected.
Thank you for your consideration.
Judy Boucher
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Hi! Ms. Boucher, Thank you for your
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project, including the proposed street
vacation, as part of the Environmental
Impact Report (EIR) required by the
California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA). Currently, no decisions have
been made by the City regarding the
request. Your concerns have been noted
and will be reviewed as part of the EIR.
Thank you!
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Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
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and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
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will be available when the draft
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webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
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at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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lam concerned about the proposal to
close Pruneridge Avenue between Tantau
and Wolfe
Issue#1: Now that the importance of
good bicycle and pedestrian access has
been recognized, closing Pruneridge
would be a major step back. The link
between Tantau and Wolfe via Pruneridge
is a significant pedestrian/bicycle
conduit between the neighborhoods that
are adjacent to the Apple campus and the
businesses on Wolfe avenue. At a
minimum, the city of Cupertino should
guarantee that pedestrian and bicycle
access be maintained on this corridor
should Pruneridge be closed.
Issue #2: Closure of Pruneridge between
Tantau and Wolfe may have significant
unintended consequences to the traffic
patterns on Pruneridge between Tantau
and Lawrence. If Pruneridge is closed,
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Apple must arrange the access to their
property such that it will not be
attractive to use Pruneridge between
Lawrence and Tantau to access the
campus.
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Hi! Mr. Caradonna, Thank you for your
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project, including the proposed street
vacation, as part of the Environmental
Impact Report (EIR) required by the
California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA). Currently, no decisions have
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Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
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ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
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Quality Hazards and Hazardous
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will be available when the draft
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updates. You may subscribe to be
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at the same page.Thank you for taking
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Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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Hello, I'd like to submit my suggestions
for Apple Campus 2 EIR.
I'd like Cupertino/Apple to keep the
public road open from Tantau to Wolf on
Pruneridge. This will help the traffic
flow to freeway. However, If Apple must
close Pruneridge from Tautau to Wolf, it
is extremely important that Apple or
City of Cupertino to provide a bicycle
and pedestrian walkway access between
Tantau and Wolfe. This bike/pedestrian
walkway will be really beneficial to
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both the surrounding neighbors and all
the Cupertino Village
restaurants/stores/Market businesses.
There are lots of neigborhood families
and company workers taking daily
morning, lunch and evening walks around
the current HP campus. A lot of
WestwoodOaks neighbors are currently
walking over to Cupertino Village for
lunch, dinner, coffees and shopping in
Ranch99. If Pruneridge is closed, we
will have much longer walk to get
Cupertino Village, so we have to drive a
car. As you know, once we get into
cars, we will have lot more
options/places to go for shopping, lunch
or dinner. So closing Prunerdige from
Tantau to Wolf is not good for both
neigbors and Cupertino Village
businesses. PLEASE CONSIDER AT LEAST
PROVIDE A BIKE/PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY FROM
TANTAU TO WOLF if Pruneridge is losed!
Oh, yes by the way, please keep those
Apple smookers away from the walkways!
Please make sure that Apple will be just
as a good neighbor like HP!
Thansk You for your attendtion!
Katie Chow (a WestwoodOaks neighbor on
Pruneridge in Santa Clara)
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Hi! Ms. Chow, Thank you for your
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project, including the proposed street
vacation, as part of the Environmental
Impact Report (EIR) required by the
California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA). Currently, no decisions have
been made by the City regarding the
request. Your concerns have been noted
and will be reviewed as part of the EIR.
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Suggestion of 09/30/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
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opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE,
COMMENT on Apple Campus 2 EIR report.
I devoted 10 years to serving on the
Cupertino Public Safety Commission and
served under as many mayors. The
commission devoted much time to traffic
and traffic impact studies.
Unfortunately, most EIR studies almost
always underestimate traffic impact both
on the roads in the study and the
roadways outside of the immedicate area.
My protest is the closure of Pruneridge.
This particular four lane street is
vital a a relieve throughfare to and
from Wolfe to Lawerence Expressway. It
relieve the traffic on Homestead Road
and most important the Stevens Creek
Road way to Lawrence Expressway.
Without this important roadway ,
traffice will overburden the congestion
on Homestead and Stevens Creek. I urge
the planners to require that Pruneridge
be kept open. If Apple needs to
connect both sides of Pruneridge to
maintain safe walking access for
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employees on their campus. I urge the
city to require either an overpass or
underpass to allow Pruneridge to
continue unobstructed. People from the
Apartment complex should be allowed
access to Lawrence while not having to
feed onto Homestead or Stevens Creek,
I know from personal experience driving
by the current Apple campus that
employees, pedestrians, and vehicles
create a round the clock congestion.
Come up with away to keep public roads
open to the public . Apple does not own
the roadway. There is a public
environment that needs to be addressed
in addition to traffice in the area.
Not all roads lead to Apple, Kaiser,
Cupertino village, Apartments, and the
Santa Clara homes, easy access for
students and residents to get to and
from schools, shops, homes and commutes.
Please look at the impact the roads will
affect the residents and visitors in all
ways .
2. 1 am concerned about lack of public
access to such a large access of private
property. Eespecially in times of a
city-wide emergency. Our emergency
preparedness depends upon knowledge and
access to areas in a citywide emergency.
3. Terrorism . I am concerned about
such a large concentration of people in
one large building. Seems to be an
inviting a target same as the WTC in NYC
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Hi! Mr. Checkman, Thank you foryour
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project, including the proposed street
vacation, as part of the Environmental
Impact Report (EIR) required by the
California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA). Currently, no decisions have
been made by the City regarding the
request. Your concerns have been noted
and will be reviewed as part of the EIR.
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Project.As we proceed with the
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the time to provide input.
Sincerely David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE,
Willie Baldry
3847 Shasta Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95051-5847
williebaldry@gmail.com
Phone, 408 — 984-9844
Mr. Tim Cook/Mr. Steve Jobs
Apple
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
Dear Mr. Jobs,
I have just watched your presentation to
the Cupertino City Council regarding
Apple's proposed new building between
Wolf, Homestead, and Tantau.
Although I am technically a resident of
Santa Clara, I live very close to this
location. I am surrounded by Cupertino.
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For the record, I do not mind that you
apparently propose eliminating
Pruneridge Road between Wolf and
TantauI can go on to Homestead and loop
back to my home.
I do have the obvious traffic concerns.
For instance, it is clear it can be a
gigantic traffic mess during the
construction phase, and I am hoping you
will pay for the re -design and
re -construction of a two-lane entrance
ramp both on and off 1-280 at Wolf Road
to accommodate the increase in traffic,
if it is warranted.
The most significant concern I have is
regarding the apparent decision NOT to
cover the entire roof of the big
building with solar panels. It was not
addressed, nor did the artist's
rendition reflect the presence of such
panels on the roof as far as I could
tell. I hope the Cupertino City Council
will mandate this. I know this is very
expensive, but Apple has a great deal of
money and should be able to recoup the
investment in energy savings in a few
short years. The trees should be
planted while keeping those solar panels
clear to the sun which shines most of
the time around here.
I like that you propose planting a very
large number of trees (and I hope you
will chose them based on long-term
desirability i.e., suitable to the
environmentginkos such as already
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border the property in same places are
very desirable, or native trees. Please
do not choose the trees based on
short-term growth goals. In this area,
there would be far fewer trees were it
not for irrigation (I hope you are going
to use your own "gray water" for
irrigation.) A native desert would not
be in keeping with the desired forest
you wish to create, so please try to
make your forest similar to those found
in the near -by Santa Cruz mountains.
Planting in keeping with the environment
will also mean less water is required,
especially after the first few years.
The prevalent use of those spring
blooming trees used in almost every
parking lot and along many sub -division
roads is NOT a good option. They are
not attractive, break apart, and become
very straggly. I know that you can
afford to put in place many very large
trees and I hope that you will do so. I
would ask that you keep in mind the
incredibly high tendency of many plants
to produce allergic reactions.
For the record, unlike so many peopleI
have NO objection to wind generators if
sufficient wind is available. I do not
care if they make a little sound, and I
do not think they are ugly. If you
placed them near the area of the
proposed power generation facility (near
1-280 and further from the apartment
complex, where they might even pick up
wind from the constant stream of cars) I
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do not see how people could object to
the "noise" or their appearance either.
What I DO object to is the idea of
utilizing natural gas on a new facility,
which increases the likelihood that some
people are going to be made ill and
water is going to be contaminated by the
likely process of fracking to obtain the
gas. The combination of as many solar
panels as possible and wind generators
would make your facility much less
reliant on all other forms of energy.
It would also make people like me more
comfortable with the presence of a
massive building in the neighborhood.
I like the underground parkingI
personally believe all corporations and
shopping centers built in the future
(including your building) should be
required to place ALL parking UNDER the
buildingswhether the parking is
underground or simply forms the lowest
floors of all new large buildings. This
would eliminate at least new expanses of
concrete and blacktop which absorb so
much heat from the sun.
I see that you propose using a huge
number ofvery expensive glass panels,
so please keep in mind every possible
energy consideration in the selection of
those panels. Also please keep in mind
your employees great need for Vitamin D.
They need a lot of exposure to the
sunshine.
I also hope that your huge cafeteria
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will purchase locally -grown organic
fruits and vegetables and grass-fed
locally -raised meats and free-range
poultry and eggs (Diestel Turkey Farms
are local enough). Full Circle Farm,
one mile away, grows lots of nice
organic foods and there are many other
local farms as well. I would hope that
you make it mandatory NOT to offer your
employees ANY genetically modified
foods, and that your fish would all be
wild.
Again, my most urgent concern is that
you place solar panels on every
available square foot of the roof of
that very large building.
Ifwealthy companies like Apple do not
take the lead in energy and
environmental concerns, the rest of the
world will never be able to afford to
follow suit.
I truly appreciate your sincere
consideration of my concerns.
Sincerely,
Willie Baldry
williebaldry@gmail.com
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Hi! Mr. Baldry, Thank you foryour
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project, as part of the Environmental
Impact Report (EIR) required by the
California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA). Currently, no decisions have
been made by the City regarding the
request. Your concerns and suggestions
have been noted and all concerns will be
reviewed as part of the EIR. Thank you!
Regards, Ms. Piu Ghosh Associate Planner
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Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
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opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
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Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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tomorrow --yet I cannot any meaningful
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the project description, including
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project alternatives that reduce or
minimize environmental effects ofthe
proposal.
Please contact me by phone with the
relevant information as soon as you
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Perhaps Apple should contemplate some
apartments on a corner of the campus. A
multi -floor design with underground
parking would have a minimal footprint
and not change the overall character of
the campus design, but would be a
wonderful model for the
live -where -you -work concept, and would
reduce the commute hours traffic in and
out of the facility. With a desire for
a futuristic campus, Apple should
completely embrace the concept.
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Hi!, Thank you for your comments with
regard to the proposed project. The City
will evaluate the environmental impacts
ofthe proposed project, including the
traffic impacts of the project, as part
ofthe Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
required by the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA). Currently, no
decisions have been made by the City
regarding the request. Your concerns
have been noted and will be reviewed as
part ofthe EIR. Thank you!
Regards, Ms. Piu Ghosh Associate Planner
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Suggestion of 10/04/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
31607044.00
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10/7/2011 16:12:39.39
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Mitigations:
Retain some if not all the current
entries on Homestead and Tantau to
reduce the amount of traffic that would
divert to Wolfe and Pruneridge.
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Circumferential driveways, much like De
Anza has, would take the traffic to the
garage areas.
Move plot parking lotto main campus
area. Plot 4 parking ingress and egress
will cause traffic issues on Pruneridge
and Tantau
Modify Wolfe/280 interchange to emulate
De Anza/280 interchange
Increase in traffic in the Santa Clara
Westwood Oaks neighborhood is a major
concern. Close Pruneridge at the city
border. Design closure to accommodate
pedestrian, bicycle, and emergency
vehicle traffic only.
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Hi!, Thank you for your comments with
regard to the proposed project. The City
will evaluate the environmental impacts
ofthe proposed project, including the
traffic impacts ofthe project, as part
ofthe Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
required by the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA). Currently, no
decisions have been made by the City
regarding the request. Your concerns
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part ofthe EIR. Thank you!
Regards, Ms. Piu Ghosh Associate Planner
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Dear Pat Robbins, We received your
Suggestion of 10/04/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
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will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincere) , David Knapp City Manager
31607044.00
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
10/7/2011 16:13:43.43
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I am not opposed to the Apple 2 campus
as a whole. I am concerned about how
the development will proceed.
I attended the September 8th gathering
on this subject.
I would like to suggest to city staff,
'outside sources', Planning
Commissioners and City Council members
that it is becoming increasingly
important that the actual residents of
the city are heard... and listened to.
There has been a trend that has several
residents concerned about the direction
Cupertino is going in and the'agendas'
of people in 'power.
When a large majority of participants in
'city wide meetings' are individuals who
do not reside in the city.... it is hard
for true residents to feel that their
voices are being heard.
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Hi! Ms. Warren, Thankyou foryour
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project, including the traffic impacts
of the project, as part of the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
required by the California Environmental
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Dear Lisa Warren, We received your
Suggestion of 10/04/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
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will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
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Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
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COMCATE MESSAGE:
two significant street issues
1) access to wolfe and 280 via
pruneridge ave from santa clara
side,(pedestrian, bicycle, and car -
closing this street makes for a very
long route via homestead or stevens
creek, with significant new traffic on
pruneridge, tantau and homestead)
solution A, make 1000 ft of pruneridge a
"subway" to continue existing public
access thru this route, leaving the
surface for the apple campus
solution B, make pedestiran and vehicle
undercrossings from one side of campus
to the other, and leave pruneridge as is
2 major increased traffic issue on
pruneridge in santa clara between
lawrence and tantau
solution: install signal at
giannini/pruneridge so santa clara
residential traffic has access to
pruneridge. the exiting boulevard stop
sign is in sufficient as many people run
this stop sign, i have lived here 30 yrs
and this intersection would become an
accident hub very quickly
thanks barry
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TO: efilyojne@comcast.net
Hi! Mr. Caffee, Thank you foryour
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project, including the traffic impacts
of the project, as part of the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
required by the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA). Currently, no
decisions have been made by the City
31607044.00
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have been noted and will be reviewed as
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Dear barry caffee, We received your
Question of 10/04/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
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Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
31607044.00
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
10/7/2011 16:15:35.35
COMCATE MESSAGE:
I am an 11 year resident of the
neighborhood across Homestead, one of
the two neighborhoods (the Birdland and
Westwood Oaks) closest to the new Apple
campus. I am very happy to see so many
plants, orchards, gardens and other
features included in the current site
plan.
Please be aware that many local people
will have your new campus, its very
great traffic impacts on Homestead and
Wolfe, its construction phase, and the
Apple employees it attracts in their
lives and as their neighbors very soon.
Local home-based daycares, schools, our
wonderful Full Circle Farm, concerns
about cut -through traffic, impacts on
children's safety on our roads, loss of
trees and loss of fitness routes are but
some of the concerns. If you take the
time to reach out to and get to know
your new neighbors in the Birdland and
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Westwood Oaks, you will find them to be
generally kind, hospitable and caring
individuals. I hope that community
meetings will be held to address
concerns and get input.
Susan Dole 1597 Lochinvar Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Susan.dole@gmail.com
408-984-0872
Questions
The Loss of Pruneridge Road Between
Tantau and Wolfe
The route from Lawrence to Wolfe will be
severely compromised, resulting in a
worsening of the heavy traffic along
Pruneridge from Lawrence to Tantau.
Also, access to the Highway 280 and the
many businesses in the Ranch 99 shopping
center would suffer from inconvenient
access.
There will be no exit for Apple
employees from the new campus/parking
areas in that direction in the event of
an emergency or traffic congestion at
Wolfe X Pruneridge.
I propose that the site plan be reworked
to include Pruneridge Avenue in or near
its current location, with an increase
in the number of lanes leading from
Wolfe to Apple and Tantau, with
dedicated turn and parking garage lanes
for Apple traffic into the new
underground parking areas.
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A reworked Wolfe X Pruneridge
intersection should include upgraded
pedestrian and bike safety, to
facilitate safety of Apple employees
going to Ranch 99 for meals or shopping.
Maintaining the Existing
Pedestrian -Friendly Walking Path
Many area individuals, of all ages, use
the walking route around the current HP
campus for exercise. In 11 years as a
resident of the area, I have observed
people exercising there at all times of
day. Maintaining this excellent fitness
resource should be a top priority — and
will benefit Apple employees and other
neighbors. Benches are also an important
part of any walking path. This walking
path is excellent because of the shade
of the many mature trees and because of
limited driveway access along the
walking route. Please maintain this high
standard of fitness -friendly
surroundings, open to the local
community, as you continue to refine
your plans.
Developing A Bike Friendly Campus
Many people use the
Pruneridge/Wolfe/Homestead/Tantau roads
for bike commuting or recreational
bicycling. Access to and through the
campus from all directions should be
developed and maintained. Tantau from
Stevens Creek will continue to grow as a
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bike route. Lighting and good signage
are essential parts of such a plan.
Dedicated bike/pedestrian paths would be
especially welcome. As Apple's campus
develops, Apple can be a powerful
advocate for longer distance bike routes
to and from the area as well.
Traffic Impacts on Pruneridge Avenue and
Surrounding Roads
Pruneridge Avenue already has heavy
traffic at commute times, and the new
construction and subsequent Apple campus
will add to that traffic. I would like
to know how these impacts will be
mitigated and how safety will be
maintained. I am particularly interested
in the safety of bicyclists along all
nearby roads. Pruneridge has just been
reduced from two lanes each way to one
lane each way.
The Birdland area (across Homestead
Road) already faces drivers who try to
avoid larger intersections but cutting
through the residential streets.
Prevention offurther cut through
traffic must be a priority.
If Pruneridge Anevue does go away, the
increased traffic on Homestead will need
mitigation. Homestead will also be
bearing the brunt of the construction
traffic as well.
I greatly appreciate the grey bus system
that operates for Apple employees. I
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hope that Apple will operate shuttles
from the Lawrence train station as well
as secure and sponsor a bike route from
the Lawrence train station.
Improvement of Intersections Around the
New Campus
There is already a need to upgrade the
safety of all intersections around the
new Apple Campus. None are currently
adequate for pedestrians, bicyclists or
even cars. More clear markings,
lighting, countdown timers and other
means are needed to improve the
following - Steven's Creek X Tantau,
Wolfe X Pruneridge, Wolfe X Homestead,
Homestead X Tantau, Tantau X Pruneridge.
Employees may move into the Birdland and
Westwood Oaks because walking to work is
an attractive option. I have already
observed Apple foot traffic frequenting
these areas at the lunch hour.
Solar Power and Energy Efficiency
I would very much like to see Apple
using solar panels instead of natural
gas at its very large building. I would
also like to seethe bus fleet
eventually change to green energy
sources.
Open Communication
To increase communication between the
Apple employees in the surrounding area,
I propose a Community board along a
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walking route to share information about
the wonderful local home daycares, My
Dream Academy, Full Circle Farm, the
Vallco and Kaiser farmer's markets,
preschools, swim clubs/cabana clubs,
public and private schools, lunch
destinations and shops (Chuck at Postal
Annex, Orenchi Ramen, JumpQ Educational
store, and the friendly owners at
Homestead Cleaners).
Smoking Areas
Many companies invite their smoking
employees to smoke at the margins of the
campus, but this pushes the problem onto
the local community. Designated smoking
areas at the Apple campus should be away
from any walking/biking paths — it is
both unsightly to look at people
smoking, results in litter and spreads
smelly secondhand smoke onto the
passersby. This problem is already much
in evidence along the Perimeter Road
near Vallco, one of Apple's locations on
the route to the current Vallco farmer's
market. I would like Apple to provide
designated smoking areas off the public
right of way on the new campus.
Local Produce and Farms
I hope that Apple and the construction
companies will shop for local and
organic products at the excellent Full
Circle Farm, and Vallco and Kaiser
farmer's markets. With orchards and
gardens on the Apple campus, a close
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relationship with nearby Full Circle
Farm seems like a natural development.
Public Access
I hope that the construction project
will maintain a few viewing areas and
that visitors will be welcome on campus
to admire the beautiful new buildings
and grounds. If you plan interpretive
exhibits, the Sunnyvale Community Center
and the Los Altos History Museum have
excellent farming displays.
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Hi! Ms. Dole, Thank you foryour
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project, including the traffic impacts
of the project, as part of the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
required by the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA). Currently, no
decisions have been made by the City
regarding the request. Your concerns
have been noted and will be reviewed as
part ofthe EIR. Thank you!
Regards, Ms. Piu Ghosh Associate Planner
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Dear Susan Dole, We received your
Question of 10/05/2011, which you have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
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to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
31607044.00
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
10/7/2011 16:16:30.30
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I strongly object to the planned closing
of Pruneridge ave between Wolfe and and
Tantau. From my neighborhood this is
the most direct access to the 280
freeway. For the 25 years I have been
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in the neighborhood, I have used this
road on nearly a daily basis. Please
modify the plans so that this road
remains open.
Thanks
Greg
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Hi! Mr. Dumond, Thank you foryour
comments with regard to the proposed
project. The City will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the proposed
project, including the proposed street
vacation of the project, as part of the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
required by the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA). Currently, no
decisions have been made by the City
regarding the request. Your concerns
have been noted and will be reviewed as
part ofthe EIR. Thank you!
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submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the project
at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
31607044.00
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
10/7/2011 16,1738.38
COMCATE MESSAGE,
Please see the attached letter,
regarding Silicon Valley Bicycle
Coalition's comments regarding the
Apple
Campus 2 Scope of EIR. Please feel free
to contact me with any questions or
comments.
Thank you,
Corinne Winter
President and Executive Director
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Dear Corinne Winter, We received your
Suggestion of 10/05/2011, which you
have
submitted regarding the Apple Campus 2
Project.As we proceed with the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the
process will focus on the following
topics for environmental review:Land
Use
and Planning PolicyAestheticsPopulation,
Employment and Housing Biological
ResourcesCultural ResourcesGeology,
Seismicity and SoilsHydrology and Water
Quality Hazards and Hazardous
MaterialsTransportation and
Circulation NoiseGreenhouse Gas
Emissions
and SustainabilityAir QualityPublic
Services and Utilities Another
opportunity for input on these topics
will be available when the draft
environmental report is issued. Be sure
to check in on the Apple Campus 2
webpage at www.cupertino.org/applecampus 2 for
updates. You may subscribe to be
automatically notified about the
project
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at the same page.Thank you for taking
the time to provide input.
Sincerely, David Knapp City Manager
31607044.00
19111 PRUNERIDGE AVE
10/11/2011 1639,01.01
LETTER RECEIVED,
OCTOBER 5, 2011
CITY OF CUPERTINO
PLANNING DEPARTMENT
10350 TORRE AVENUE
CUPERTINO, CA 95014
SUBJECT, PROPOSED APPLE CAMPUS
MY CONCERN REGARDING THE PROPOSED APPLE
CAMPUS IS THE PROPOSED CLOSING OF
PRUNERIDGE AVENUE. PRUNERIDGE IS A
WONDERFUL CONNECTOR ROAD FROM WOLFE TO
WINCHESTER, IN ADDITION TO BEING A GOOD
ALTERNATIVE TO THE 280 FREEWAY. IT ALSO
PROVIDES EASY ACCESS TO THE LARGE
MEDICAL FACILITY, KAISER, RIGHT DOWN THE
ROAD ON HOMESTEAD. SEVERAL EASY
SOLUTIONS PRESENT THEMSELVES, BRIDGES
OVER PRUNERIDGE FOR APPLE, AN OVAL
BUILDING, ORA "D" -SHAPED BUILDING.
I DON'T BELIEVE A PUBLIC CORPORATION
SHOULD HAVE THE OPTION OF CLOSING DOWN
THIS ROAD.
THANK YOU,
DIANE PIEDMONT
10538 SAN LEANDRO AVENUE
CUPERTINO, CA 95014
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TRANSPORTATION IMPACT ANALYSIS