Govind - Proposal: General Plan Advisory Committee

From: Govind Tatachari Date: Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: Proposal: General Plan Advisory Committee
To: citycouncil <citycouncil@cupertino.org>, cityclerk <cityclerk@cupertino.org>, City Attorney's Office <CityAttorney@cupertino.org>

Dear  Cupertino Council members,

Recently, there has been discussion of a Citizen Advisory Committee for the Vallco project. This approach is direct challenge of the election outcome by the City council to NULLIFY the outcome of Measure D during the November 2016 election. It is requested that the City NOT pursue this utterly irregular and deceptive approach to NULLIFY an election outcome.

Instead, if needed, the City MUST pursue a City-sponsored measure to be voted on by the Cupertino voters to make any determination or change in favor of Vallco project.

I would like to take this opportunity to resubmit the Proposal for General Plan Advisory Committee enclosed with this email (which I submitted on December 20, 2017.) I request your attention and earnest consideration of this proposal.

I am not able to attend today's council meeting but I request you to please  include this as part of the public record.

Thanking you,

Govind Tatachari
Cupertino Resident

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Govind Tatachari <gtc2k7@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Cupertino council members,

I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate the newly elected council members Rod Sinks and Steven Scharf and the newly elected Mayor Savita Vaidyanathan and Vice-Mayor Darcy Paul.

I wish the new council success in handling of all the upcoming and ongoing governance and planning issues with due diligence and utmost care, foresight and a sense of fair play respecting the concerns of all parties concerned.

The 2016 November election has been historic in many ways at many levels of government. For Cupertino, the election had two Measures on the ballot related to the issues of sensible and sustainable growth and the Vallco Town Center proposal respectively. The Voters rejected both these measures. This in spite of millions of dollars of marketing expense incurred by the Vallco developer and related groups.

These measures represent just two of the many measures which might follow. Both these measures were related to the important issue of General plan and specific land-use decisions.

In view of this, it behoves the new council to attend to the issues of the General plan and land-use choices that Cupertino City is facing. I propose that the new council constitute a General plan advisory committee with a charter to evaluate and advise the council on the goals, projections and allocations related to the 25-year (long-term) General plan, related land-use choices and project proposals.

I believe this will help the City council keep the Citizenry engaged in the Cupertino planning and development activities. It is best that the City advertises this effort and invites a representative percentage (one in thousand) of Cupertino population in this exercise. It is also imperative that most of this committee is made up of ordinary residents. Formation of such a committee of Cupertino residents will also help avoid or reduce the chance of costly initiatives and referendums in the future.

I am unable to attend today's council meeting in person and talk about this proposal as part of the Oral communications. However I request that this email be entered as part of the public input.

Thanking you,

With good wishes and Sincerely,

Govind Tatachari

Cupertino Resident