PC Minutes 9-9-2014 CITY OF CUPERTINO
10300 Torre Avenue
Cupertino, CA 95014
CITY OF CUPERTINO
REGULAR PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING
APPROVED/AMENDED MINUTES
6:45 P.M. SEPTEMBER 9,2014 TUESDAY
CUPERTINO COMMUNITY HALL
The regular Planning Commission meeting of September 9, 2014 was called to order at 6:45 p.m. in the
Cupertino Community Hall, 10350 Torre Avenue, Cupertino, CA. by Chair Paul Brophy.
SALUTE TO THE FLAG
ROLL CALL
Commissioners present: Chairperson: Paul Brophy
Vice Chairperson: Winnie Lee
Commissioner: Margaret Gong
Commissioner: Don Sun
Commissioner: Alan Takahashi
Staff Present: Assistant City Manager: Aarti Shrivastava
Asst. Director of Community Development: Gary Chao
Senior Planner: Piu Ghosh
Asst. City Attorney: Colleen Winchester
APPROVAL OF MINiJTES: None
WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS: None
POSTPONEMENTS/REMOVAL FROM CALENDAR: None
ORAL COM1�ZiJNICATIONS: None
CONSENT CALENDAR: None
STUDY SESSION
1. GPA-2013-01,Z-2013-01 Study Session for the Environmental Impact Report for
(EA-2013-03) GPA-2013-02 General Plan Amendments, Housing Element Update
MCA-2014-01 and Associate Rezoning
City of Cupertino
Citywide Location
Steve Noack,P1aceWorks,presented the staff report:
• Said the purpose of the study session was to present an overview of the key impact conclusions of the
EIR to the Commission,public, organizations and other interested agencies.
• He provided a project summary of the General Plan Amendment (GPA) overview. The GP is a
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regulatory document that sets the ground rules for future growth in Cupertino. The city has decided to
go through this update process to reallocate and increase city development allocations to consolidate
review of individual GPA requests in the future, and inform the Vallco Shopping Center Districts
specific and/or master plan the beginning process to help develop that plan. The GP update also
addresses recent state law requirements and other GP municipal code cleanup items which are detailed
in the EIR.
• The GP considers three alternatives: Alternative (Alt) A primarily maintains the policies of the 2005
GP but includes additional allocation for office and hotel. Alt B looks at revising the height standards
and densities at key gateways and nodes within the special areas and along major transportation
corridors; and it increases the offices and hotel and residential allocations. Alt C which is considered
the preferred project in the EIR revises the height standards and densities at the key gateways and
nodes within the special areas and along the major transportation corridors. It incorporates property
owners' requests at 7 study areas and also increases overall office,hotel and residential allocations at a
higher level than Alt B. He illustrated a map of the primary areas where the GPA are considering
changes; they are primarily through the key arterials and transportation corridors within the
community.
• He provided an overview of the Housing Element. The Housing Element is a process of revising the
housing element to meet the current ABAG growth allocation numbers. The housing element looks at
a wide variety of goals to meet different housing demands for different income levels and is providing
equal access to housing opportunities for all. There are a number of potential housing sites that are
included in the EIR and they range in Alt A from fairly minimal site changes to moderate changes in
Alt B and then the developer proposed maaLimum densities proposed in Alt C. This provides an
overview of the regional housing needs allocation and it shows that for Cupertino, the overall goal is
1,064 housing units broken up by very low, low, moderate and above moderate ranges. The potential
housing sites studied in the EIR, are primarily along the eastern side of the city and in our range and
densities depending on the housing site itself.
• Provided an overview of the EIR. The EIR conforms with the California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA) which requires that public agencies disclose environmental impacts that have potential for
physical impacts on the environment. The EIR looks at effects found not to be significant and
identifies significant effects where there are impacts that are identified. The EIR examines ways to
mitigate or avoid the impacts; it also discloses any impacts that cannot be mitigated and then the EIR
also goes through fairly detailed review of alternatives to the project. CEQA does not dictate project
approval or denial, it is a disclosure document and it's the public agency disclosing what the potential
impacts are of the project before a determination is made on the project itsel£ The GP EIR looked at a
long range 2040 buildout horizon and the GP is a large scale long range planning document; it is the
city's blueprint to guide development in the future. The EIR looks at buildout projections of future
development and is based on that horizon year 2040. The EIR analyzes growth between 2014 and
2040 and the 2040 horizon is consistent with the planned Bay Area Regional Transportation Plan and
the sustainable community strategy.
• The EIR shown is a program EIR and it addresses large scale long term projects which include a broad
scope of physical development issues. It looks at full buildout and it also allows for subsequent project
level environmental review and this allows for projects to tier off as documents so if a project is found
to be in conformance, there might be some additional environmental review, some additional
mitigation is necessary but projects that are in conformance with this can use the mitigation measures
that are here to address any potential impacts down the road. CEQA requires that any identified
environmental impacts be avoided, minimized, rectified, reduced, eliminated or compensated and
CEQA allows incorporation of mitigation measures in a project to offset impacts looking at goals,
policies and strategies as ways to address potential environmental impacts. In this EIR we looked at
the full range of environmental issues, all of the potential issues that are listed in Appendix G of the
CEQA guidelines. The EIR found that certain impacts, there were certain issues there were no
impacts on many of them there were less than significant impacts, many of them there were less than
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significant with the incorporation of future mitigation measures, and then also identified some impacts
that were significant and unavoidable and these are impacts that even with mitigation measures they
can't be reduced to a less than significant level, or it could be that there is no feasible mitigation that
can be identified, and as often as the case with traffic impacts where you are looking at the need to
take private property or you are creating intersections that don't facilitate full multi-model usage,
meaning bicycle traffic because you are expanding them to such a degree that you are overriding the
potential to look at other forms of transportation modes. That can be a determination of feasibility in
terms of mitigation measures. Also impacts can be found to be significant and unavoidable because
the site itself is in a different jurisdiction and the city does not have control over any mitigation or
actions on that site. There were no impacts to agricultural, forestry and mineral resources; the EIR
found less than significant impacts on a full range of the environmental topics ranging from aesthetics
to cultural resources, greenhouse gas emissions, land use and planning, population and housing and
public services and recreation. The EIR found significant impacts that could be mitigated in the areas
of biological resources, hazards and hazardous materials and utilities and service systems; and
additional impacts were found that could not be mitigated in the areas of air quality, noise,
transportation, and circulation. Noted that most of terminations with regard to air quality and noise
have to do with the increase in traffic that would be projected as a result of the plan itself. Said they
provided a discussion of each of the potentially significant impacts and then mitigation measures that
would help to reduce those to less than significant levels and these mitigation measures would be
brought forth at the time specific projects came to bear.
• He also reviewed the key findings for cumulative impacts of the development proposed, as outlined in
the staff report, including aesthetics, air quality, operational emissions, construction emissions,
cultural resources, greenhouse gas emissions, noise, population and housing, and transportation and
traffic. The EIR was circulated for a 45 day public review period which ended Augustl, 2014;
comments from public agencies, members of the public, and most of the comments did not pertain to
the adequacy of the EIR; there were more questions about the overall GP process and questions
specifically related to the Plan itsel£ Also included in the final EIR were error conection language,
edits and clarifications;there were no substantial revisions to the document. Additional late comments
were also received that raised no new or unaddressed issues. The public review period has been
completed for the Draft EIR; moving forward into the public hearing stage. The EIR is available for
review; currently in the September study session with an additional meeting in October 2014 with
final adoption scheduled in November 2014.
• Said the fourth alternative was the No Project Alternative. Alt A is the environmentally superior
alternative that in the EIR concludes that the No Project Alternative would ultimately be the
environmentally superior alternative. CEQA requires when the No Project Alternative is identified as
the environmentally superior alternative, the next project alternative would be the one that would be
evaluated. The No Project Alternative would have the fewest impacts because it is continuing under
the existing GP with the same degree of development allocations.
Chair Brophy:
• Clarified for the audience if using the term "preferred project" for Alt C, the term "preferred project"
does not mean it is the preference of the city government or the City Council, but rather it was the
most intensive use that was studied for its impact on the community. It is the project studied in the
EIR. Said they were likely looking at a housing element of having to come up with something on the
order of 1400 units. The term "mitigation"doesn't mean the problem has been solved; it could easily
mean that a horrible situation is now a slightly less horrible situation.
5teve Noack:
• Said mitigation is designed to address the specific impact identified in the EIR that could be a smaller
change that wouldn't necessarily take away a problem completely, but would address that issue raised
under the context of the project.
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Chair Brophy:
• Clarified that they were not suggesting that the improvements suggested would solve the problem, but
just make them less onerous.
Aarti Shrivastava,Assistant City Manager:
• Said they have thresholds of significance that are addressed in every section; if a mitigation brings it
below that threshold, so it is no longer an impact, then it is solved and where it is not solved, they are
called"significantly unavoidable"and there is a difference.
Piu Ghosh,Senior Planner:
• Reviewed the deadline for sending the GP to HCD; for purposes of the Housing Element; the deadline
is January 31, 2015, with a 120 day grace period; the deadline for final housing element to be adopted
is May 31, 2015. There is a 60 day review period that HCD is allowed in order to review the housing
elements; in order to ensure there is adequate time, staff will forward the draft to HCD by November.
Aarti Shrivastava:
• Said if it was determined there were not enough sites, they would receive a letter and have the
opportunity to give another appropriate site. Said they will prioritize a list of sites followed by a
dialog back and forth from HCD; HCD came last time and toured each site so they were convinced it
was a good site; after the 60 days there is still back and forth dialog that needs to happen to convince
them that these are sites that meet the criteria, which is the reason they are recommending earlier
because the 60 days does not solve the issue, it just begins the conversation.
• Relative to the No Project, the 1895 units are what currently exists in the housing element that is
available, they assume no change to that in Alt. A which is why it is the same number of units. In Alt
B and C they are responding to One Bay Area Plan which was created by ABAG which is the starting
point of the RHNA numbers they have. In Alt B they assume that by 2040 they will have only met
75% of the requirement that they are required to have. Alt C says that by 2040 they would be able to
meet their entire housing element through 2040; they would be able to meet Alt C,they have 3 cycles
of housing element to get to 2040;Alt C assumes that they would meet that with those numbers.
Com. Sun:
• Relative to traffic mitigarion there is a study session on the traffic issue; in the case of Alt. A, B, C if
the traffic study is not accurate,what can they assume is the alternative or remedy?
Aarti Shrivastava:
• Said they ensure that the traffic study is accurate; there is no option. They comply with VTA specific
guidelines about how to do traffic studies; use guidelines that are already set. They have used this for
each traffic analysis so that its comparable, same system and using VTA's methodology; they require
it for all cities under their purview. People aren't doing different things.
Com. Sun:
• Regarding public comment, during the review period a lot of public comment was received. What
weight will the public comment play in the final decision with the city staff and consulting company.
Aarti Shrivastava:
• Tonight is about the EIR, approximately 25 sets of comments have been received on various topics.
Those related to the EIR have already been responded to; beyond that there will be a staff report
addressing the other comments. The comments will be categorized and brought to the Planning
Commission and City Council when making a recommendation on the General Plan.
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Com. Gong:
• What is the cutoff date for these numbers; e.g., in regards to projects that are being approved at the
current time, progress continues, e.g. the hotel numbers just approved 148 units; how do those counts
towards what is projected?
Aarti Shrivastava:
• Said they have overall numbers in the General Plan that have already been analyzed. The 148 rooms
approved at the last meeting were part of the current GP allocation that has already been studied at a
programmatic GP level. When the Council adopts the final GP, there are overall numbers and they
can't go above that as a total, but you will approve project level as long as they are within that scope.
Chair Brophy:
• Said on the traffic transportation study given the long time horizon he assumed EPA trends and
mandates with regard to fuel economy is factored into that analysis.
Steve Noack:
• Said the mandates are factored into the air quality modeling as a result of the traffic. In terms of
looking at emissions, there are assumptions that cars are going to get cleaner, and there are going to
be more hybrids on the road;that is factored into the long term air quality emissions projections.
Com.Takahashi:
• In terms of any other technology that might be infused as transportation, that's the only number.
When looking at the table of impacts for all alternatives, they are the same in terms of the general
assessment of the impact; no project vs.just the highest level of evaluation. This says that even with
land use there are significant elements,unavoidable impacts that the city is facing as it moves forward.
Now it's just a degree of how severe that impact is between the various alternatives. From that
perspective, with the traffic study and the major intersections and freeways, what is assumed with the
freeways where the traffic patterns are really driven by larger area commute patterns going through the
city; how is growth assumed in the general traffic pattern that this impact then adds to?
Steve Noack:
• Said staff inentioned earlier that the traffic studies are done in accordance with the VTA guidelines and
VTA includes a detailed regional traffic model that does forecasting for its entire jurisdictional area,
and so the traffic model, those assumptions for regional growth are implicit in that model and then
they come out for the specific intersection analysis.
Aarti Shrivastava:
• Said all these impacts are not just from Cupertino; it is recognition that regardless of what they do
there are areas around them that are developing. It is built in projects and GP assumptions from
neighboring cities that will impact the city regardless, which is why some people are surprised to say,
`what no project?'
Com.Takahashi:
• The section on the schools was interesting from the standpoint that it is saying there is currently not
enough capacity in the schools to support the number of students; and the growth of the student
population over the time period looks to be estimated as a smaller percentage, which is assumed to be
because it is high density housing. The conclusion on the EIR on the schools was that generally
speaking no new schools need to be built which is a good thing because there is no space for new
schools, but that they would probably need to add second story classrooms to the schools. Is that the
long term mission of Cupertino Union School District?
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Aarti Shrivastava:
• Said they met with both school districts and received information from their demographers. The
demographer looks at the aging population, how many houses are going to turn over, regardless of
building; where the students are coming from over the long term. They use the school consultant to
do the analysis on school students' generation because they want to make sure it was correct.
Com. Gong:
• Referred to Vol. 1, Pages 14-53 and asked for explanation in the difference in numbers in ABAG
projection as opposed to the project built out specifically. Said it seemed to imply that they will have
fewer residents yet need more housing units than ABAG projects.
Steve Noack:
• Said it could be that ABAGs use of persons per household number is different than what was used for
projections for the EIR which is believed to be based on census data. It doesn't take much, one person
difference,you will get that type of discrepancy in the population projection.
Aarti Shrivastava:
• Said they would confirm it; it could have been just for Santa Clara County as opposed to the city; often
they do county based.
Vice Chair Lee:
• Asked Com. Takahashi, in terms of the schooling and the report mention that the only way to mitigate
the school crowding was to increase the height of the schools to two stories; does staff know where the
school impact fees go? Do they go to the schools to use at their discretion, or do they have to use it to
build and if they want to build is there any plans; is there any building now and do they have to go
through the city to build a second story, and where do the students go when they are building?
Aarti Shrivastava:
• The school district is working on a master plan and what they foresee is two story even if it portables
to keep space open. In the meantime, they move students around, when new students come into the
district, they move them to sites with availability and sometimes have to find creative ways by
consolidating programs to free up classrooms. The demographer is putting together a plan to bring to
the school board so they can plan for the future.
Steve Noack:
• Clarified that Alt C was the alternative that was considered the project; it is not identified as the
preferred alternative; that was what was looked at as the project in the EIR and then the alternatives
looked at compared the impacts in all the different areas. The other two alternatives A and B were
compared with C and as shown in the table, the differences weren't all that great. There were minor
differences that resulted in Alt A, B and identified as the environmentally preferred alternative. There
are many other aspects to Alt C in terms of what its impacts would be on the city from economic
benefits, jobs, housing, all other issues that are outside CEQA's arena; but part of the decision based
on the merits of the project itsel£ It will be evaluated as part of the approval process for the GPA.
Aarti Shrivastava:
• CEQA only addresses environmental; the City Council and Planning Commission may want to
consider other impacts. CEQA has its limitations; it looks at certain categories required, but the
Planning Commission and City Council may go beyond that and look at the economic benefit. All
the alternatives have been studied to a level of detail so the Council and Planning Commission don't
have to pick one;they can pick and choose. Said the word"preferred"was used incorrectly;Alt C is
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the proposed project and one looks at the project with the greatest impacts as the proposed project
because the alternatives have to have fewer impacts then the proposed project.
Steve Noack:
• Said if looking only at the environmental impacts the analysis identified Alt A as the environmentally
superior alternative because it had fewer potential impacts than Alt B and C. It does not imply that
one is preferred over the other yet.
Chair Brophy opened the study session for public comment.
Chair Brophy:
• Said there were a series of issues; the immediate issue being the sufficiency of the EIR as they will
vote on whether to accept the EIR as a document next month; that will not make any decision but
there are questions whether or not the EIR covers the issues. Said they would not be voting at this
meeting and encouraged colleagues to ask questions of the speakers. He noted for the record that all
five Commissioners have met with Jason Lungard of Apple to listen to his concerns about the GPA
and housing element.
Jennifer Griffin,Rancho Rinconada resident:
• One of the main concerns with the EIR is the impact of potential traffic in the city because the city is
going through a number of incoming projects and everyone has tried to make sure that projects
coming in and going out have as little impact on the traffic as possible. In planning for the future,
they have to keep in mind that the roads they have are pretty much it; on and off ramps onto 280;
Hwy 85, etc. so when planning for the future they need to think that the roads are a finite resource;
they must use wisely what they have.
• Said it was also important to ensure that the Heart of the City is maintained and respected because it
is a source of pride that Cupertino has a Heart of the City. Said she felt the One Bay Area Plan is not
a good fit for Cupertino; it is looking too far into the future. Cupertino is a small city with finite
resources and said she did not want to do anything that will compromise the city through too much
buildout. The city has to be protected for future generations and what they do now is going to depend
on what Cupertino will look like in two to three generations; do they want it to be completely built
out 10 or 20 stories in one generation; that is not fair to the people coming in to Cupertino. Said she
felt the No Project Plan is the best one; Alt A is the least dangerous of them; Alt B and Alt C are just
too dangerous and compromise the future of Cupertino at this time. Said she was not a fan of the
fixed bus rapid transit for Cupertino; it may work for other cities but at this time she didn't want to
sacrifice the fast lanes on Stevens Creek Blvd. to a slow moving bus or to fixed lanes. There is not
enough room for bikes, etc. and getting from the east side of town to the west side still takes about 15
to 20 minutes. Said she was hopeful that they would do everything possible not to compromise the
upcoming generation's ability to live in Cupertino comfortably.
Chair Brophy:
• Directed questions from Ms. Griffin to staf£ One Bay Area Plan: Is this a controlling document for
us at this time. Does the concept of the One Bay Area Plan impose additional constraints on us?
Aarti Shrivastava:
• Responded no, other than RHNA. Regarding the status of fixed bus rapid transit, she said they have
not assumed fixed bus rapid transit in the EIR because it would still need the city's authorization for
that project to move forward; don't know the date in terms of implementations. They haven't
presented to the city and it would likely take one to three years before they started the planning
process. VTA cannot take away lanes from Stevens Creek without the approval of the City Council.
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Mike�e�Foulkes,Apple:
• Said they were involved in Cupertino and have focused their future on the Apple Campus II; the EIR
and GPA that it governs is important for them to make sure that they know the development in the
city is something that all the residents, businesses and everyone else agrees on and they protect Apple
II campus as it is being built. Said its security and privacy are paramount to them which is why they
designed it the way they did.
• Both the Irvine Co. and Apple understand the issues of security and privacy and have an idea of what
envelope of projects around Apple Campus II are good for development and redevelopment of those
sites. Said as they moved forward with the process, they were hopeful that the alternative
recommended to the City Council involves those envelopes adjoining their properties again so they
can thrive in the community and also that their neighbors can thrive in doing what they want with
their land in a way that works in harmony with Apple.
Chair Brophy:
• Said the Commission just received the letters from Irvine Co. and the response from Apple. Said they
are in the situation where they want to be responsive to their primary employer in town but they also
need to meet the housing element requirement that the state has imposed. Told Mr. �e�es Foulkes
that it would simplify things if he and the Irvine Company could reach agreement on the language for
their site should it be included in the housing element. Said he would ask the next speaker the same
question, but if they could resolve it prior to October 14`�' it would be advantageous, at least on one
site. He asked if there were any other aspects of the GP update or housing element that they were
concerned about.
Mike�es Foulkes,Apple:
• Said a quick resolution was their goal; they met on that specific topic and are hoping during the
process to bring that language to the Commission; but from a philosophical standpoint they are in
alignment. In looking at anything around the Wolfe corridor, making sure about privacy and security,
part of the trick is with some very tall heights and they are still looking at what impact those would
have; the Hampton site is closest to them but they are still looking at those to see from a massing
perspective what that looks like. When referring to traffic as already mentioned, it is something that is
on a case-by-case basis with developments and that is critical that their employees and residents and
everyone else would be able to move through that corridor. Said they spent months working on that
for Apple Campus II and want to make sure development there does not end up creating a gridlock
that throws both their development and other developments into a quagmire.
Carlene Matchniff,Irvine Co.:
• Said they have met with Apple and had a series of ineetings with them on the subject of
redevelopment in the Hamptons. They want to fully cooperate with Apple and design a project that
interfaces well with the campus to provide housing that could benefit the Apple campus and its
employees,offering them a place to live close to Apple, and provide people the opportunity to walk or
bike to work, and to get off the roads and reduce the VMT and help their TDM program because they
need to add some measures to reduce traffic. Said they have already spent a lot of time looking at the
site,the footprint; the design. One of the things that the EIR does is look at extremes and it looks at an
85 ft. height limit;they would not build to an 85 ft. height limit and have expressed that to Apple; they
want to make sure what they are looking at is 60 to 75 ft. and the 60 ft. would be adjacent to Apple; 60
ft. along Wolfe Rd. and then ask to go up to 75 ft. as it abuts the freeway; basically a sensitively
designed plan. They plan to add a lot of landscaping and already have 70 ft. redwoods and want to
preserve those as a buffer. They have hired Olen Landscaping Architects that is working with Apple
to examine and look at the interface to ensure the plant pallet would complement and buffer the views
back and forth to the campus.
• Said there were working with the Santa Clara School District on mitigation issues; early discussions of
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what that would mean for a redevelopment of the Hamptons and similar issues. They have two
agreements with Apple, a land swap on their plans and a construction mitigation agreement. They are
also working on a cooperative agreement, including privacy issues, security, setbacks, and height
limits for the Commission's consideration.
• Said the density needs to be decided by the City Council and Planning Commission through the
process; they would like to have the flexibility to design a project that makes sense in taking down the
existing project because that is something that would have to be phased out over time and redeveloped.
There are 342 units there now; adding to that they would like to see the maximum numbers which
currently is being studied at 800 and would like to keep it in that range in order to have the opportunity
to develop a stunning project that offers all of the amenities and sustainability, green building and
everything they need to incorporate. If the number is eroded too low, it wouldn't make sense to
redevelop the site. S aid she was confident they could reach agreement with Apple on mutually
acceptable language for the housing element prior to the October 14`i'meeting.
Phyllis Dickstein, resident:
• Most of the residents would like to preserve the city and not have it become an extension of downtown
San Jose. The development plan seems to concentrate on the eastern part of the city; why give such a
huge impact; why not spread it out more and consider moving some of that development more to the
western part of the city? Said she was shocked to learn there is no room to build a school, only way to
add more space is by adding a second story; yet they are building hundreds of office buildings, retail
and housing units. Said if they don't go with Alt C but choose one of the plans with less impact and
don't have so many office buildings, housing units and retail units, perhaps they can build more
schools for the children that the additional development would bring into the community.
Chair Brophy:
• Asked for staff comment on Ms. Dickstein's question "Why is there a concentration of housing
element sites on the east side?"
Aarti Shrivastava:
• Said they went through the exercise of looking at all the sites available in the city, and on the western
side of the city there are the foothills; existing densities are much lower; there are not many sites
available for consolidation and for use for housing element sites that would actually produce some real
results for the RHNA. She added that they had two sites on Foothill Blvd., sites on Mary Ave.,
Glenbrook,the Oaks, and also a site on so. DeAnza Blvd.
Chair Brophy:
• Asked Tim Borden to comment on an issue regarding the Sewer District. Although Public Works
doesn't handle the sewage service, it comes from the Sanitary District, not the city, but they say
increasing capacity may be very challenging and may result in a significant cost impact. The
response of the EIR is they will have to study it and find a solution somehow,which is not reassuring.
He asked if Mr. Borden had enough knowledge about the situation with the Sewer District and their
capacity;and whether or not it was really a problem.
Tim Borden,Director of Public Works:
• Said it could be a potential problem; it would be many years into the buildout, but ultimately prior to
total buildout they could reach capacity that they currently have purchased from the San Jose/Santa
Clara Sewage treatment plant. It is not a system or pipe capacity issue, it is just a quantity of
treatment they have purchased from the treatment plant in North San Jose. It would be far into the
buildout of this proposal; however, they are fairly comfortable with water conservation rates and the
way things are going with LEED certified buildings that they likely will not be discharging some of
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the estimated quantities that went into that calculation. He said they don't feel it will be an issue 20
years from now, but don't currently have an answer;that is the reason for the comment shown.
Vice Chair Lee:
• Noted that she met with the owner of Stevens Creek Office Center on housing element site 15.
There was a brief discussion of the proposed format for the October 14 Planning Commission meeting.
OLD BUSINESS: None
NEW BUSINESS: None
REPORT OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION:
Environmental Review Committee: No report.
Housin�Commission: No report.
Mavor's Monthly Meetin�With Commissioners:
Economic Develoument Committee: No meeting
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: Written report.
ADJOURNMENT:
• The meeting was adjourned to the September 23,2014 Planning Commission meeting at 6:45 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted: /s/Elizabeth Ellis
Elizabeth Ellis, Recording Secretary
Approved as Amended: October 14,2014