Liang - Impact on single-family homes: view, privacy, light pollution, noise

From: Liang C
Date: Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:40 PM
Subject: Fwd: Vallco Architecture Drawing next to the single family homes by the "wall"
To: "City of Cupertino Planning Dept." planning@cupertino.org

[Please add this to Vallco EIR comment.]

Below is the architecture drawing of The Hills at Vallco. It shows a 7-story building will be erected right next to single family homes within about the same distance as the next single-family homes.

The impact on aesthetic view and privacy for homes within 500 feet of the property line, within a visible range, should be studied.

Whether or not these factors might affect the decisions on project approval, the impact of a 7-story or even a 9-story building on the surrounding neighborhoods should be studied and documented.

Please study:

• At what angle these homes can see the moon coming up before The Hills at Vallco is built?

• At what angle these homes can see the moon coming up after The Hill is built?

• How much of the ridge line would be blocked by The Hills?

• As the Sun comes up each morning, how much shorter the gardens of these single-family homes would be exposed to morning sunshine?

Since the very tall commercial building will be as close to the single-family homes as the next door neighbor, the invasion of privacy on these single family homes should be studied.

Please study:

• The range of sight of any visitor on the rooftop park during day time into the direction of single-family homes.
• The range of sight of any visitor on the rooftop park during night time into the direction of single-family homes.
• The range of sight of any maintenance worker on the rooftop park during day time into the direction of single-family homes.
• The range of sight of any maintenance worker on the rooftop park during night time into the direction of single-family homes.
• The range of sight of any visitor of the 7-story commercial building during day time into the direction of single-family homes.
• The range of sight of any visitor of the 7-story commercial building during night time into the direction of single-family homes.
• The range of sight of any maintenance worker, such as window cleaner, of the 7-story commercial building during day time into the direction of single-family homes.
• The range of sight of any maintenance worker, such as window cleaner, of the 7-story commercial building during night time into the direction of single-family homes.

As the commercial building might be lighted at night all night long as many other commercial buildings do for security reasons, please study:

• the impact of light pollution from the commercial buildings on single-family homes at night.
• the impact of light pollution from the additional street lights installed The Hills.
• the impact of the ability to observe stars from the gardens of  single-family homes at night.

Also, during the construction of The Hills at Vallco, the following should be studied:

• the privacy of the single-family homes within visible range by construction workers.
• noise levels of construction equipment or digging equipment for underground garage.
• pollution from dust of digging or construction materials.

Thank you.

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Page 13 of the Architecture Drawing: https://s3.amazonaws.com/the-hills-at-vallco/Architecture-Drawings.pdf

Slice view 5: (below section is the leftmost side of Slice view 5)

The Vallco building (Building 6) will be as far as the house of their nextdoor neighbor.

And it will be as tall as 90 feet, gradually increasing from 65 feet.

With 10-12 feet per floor, that's about 5 to 7 stories tall.

 

 

 

Slice view 5: (Left is North. Stevens Creek is on the right. So, Slice View 5 shows the height next to single-family homes, next to the wall).