From: Yu Ying
Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:46 AM
Subject: disappointed on the result for vallco item 10 in 06/16 council meeting
To: City Council <citycouncil@cupertino.org>, City Clerk cityclerk@cupertino.org
Dear City Councils,
I am writing to you to express my
deep disappointment regarding authorizing the start of Vallco EIR
process. In particular, I am extremely disappointed about how the
planning staff approach this process.
The
staff must have started the EIR work with the now hired consultant long
time before the applicant filed the request. Although Arti claimed the
consultant doesn't charge the city, so what? All services have to be
paid in some way. If the consultant didn't have the signal from our
staff, it wouldn't have started the "free" consultant service. Not to
mention they are "the only" bidder for this report.
This
so-called back-end processing is a potential corruption tumor in our
city governance. It has no transparency to the residents for sure; it is
now found to hide under-table operations from our council too. This
reminds me how they told the council the Community 2040 only needs to be
reviewed for "clean up", which instead is a complete re-written of
GP2005. This reminds me the staff refused to provide red-line copy to
the residents until hundreds residents showed up on 05/19 meeting, and
council realized the severity and requested for it. I now wonder what
else is still hidden from Council the city projects over all. Do you
want to know too?
I appreciate
City council's efforts in this GPA process, I respect your ideas on how
to improve existing problems. But the planning staff is not running the
process in favor of our residents. They hide problems. They are
misleading the Council. If you don't take actions to correct them, you
are put against the residents.
Yu (Cupertino Residents)
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