Randy - Resolution 14-201 states Vallco allocations are "contingent on approval of a Specific Plan by May 31, 2018"

From: Randy S
Date: Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 2:52 PM
Subject: "Vallco Specific Plan" - revocable office and housing allocations.
To: piug@cupertino.org, David Brandt <Davidb@cupertino.org>, City Council <citycouncil@cupertino.org>
Cc: City Clerk <cityclerk@cupertino.org>, City Attorney's Office <CityAttorney@cupertino.org>

​Dear Council and Staff

This a comment on the Notice of Preparation for the Vallco Special Area Specific Plan.  There are assertions regarding the commercial, office, hotel and residential authorized in the General Plan for the "Special Plan."  The Notice of Preparation says:

Consistent with the adopted General Plan, the Specific Plan would facilitate the development of 600,000 square feet of commercial uses, 2.0 million square feet of office uses, 339 hotel rooms, and 800 residential dwelling units onsite.

http://www.cupertino.org/home/showdocument?id=19386

​I downloaded the latest copy of Resolution 14-210 from the City's archive. It is attached to this e-mail.  This is what was approved by the City Council and signed on Dec. 4, 2014.  Note the following:

1. A Vallco Shopping District Special Plan satisfying the conditions set in Resolution 14-210 was a condition for the provisional allocations for office space and housing becoming permanent. 

2. The General Plan's 389 housing units identified for the Vallco Shopping District is contingent on approval of a Specific Plan by May 31, 2018.

3. The General Plan's 2,000,000 sq. ft. office allocation for the Vallco Shopping District is contingent on approval of a Specific Plan by May 31, 2018. 

 I cut and pasted the following from Resolution 14-210 (the highlights are mine):

Page I-3

The development allocations in the Approved Project are as follows:

Office allocation: 2,000,000 square feet of office allocation is identified for the Vallco

Shopping District site contingent on timely approval of a specific plan for the Vallco

Shopping District). The remainder of the existing allocation is unchanged and is still

available for citywide use as provided for in the General Plan.

Residential allocation: 1, 400 dwelling units of the existing residential allocation on

sites recommended for the 2014-2022 Housing Element Inventory, 389 of which are

identified for the Vallco Shopping District contingent on timely approval of a

specific plan for the Vallco Shopping District site

Page I-4

As stated, these Approved Project allocations rely in part on timely preparation of a specific
plan for the Vallco Shopping District that meets the requirements of the General Plan. If a
Vallco Shopping District Specific Plan is not approved by May 31, 2018, then the City will
consider removing the 2,000,000 square feet of office allocation from the Vallco Shopping
District. In addition, as described in section II.B, below, the Council will further consider
redistributing the residential allocation of 389 units for the Vallco Shopping District
Housing Element site to other Housing Element sites and removing the Vallco site from the
Housing Element Inventory.

Page I-5

The Approved Project involves a list of five Priority Housing Sites (Scenario A) and analternate list of six Priority Housing Sites (Scenario B). Four of the sites are in both lists. Ifthe City has not approved a specific plan for the Vallco Shopping District site, which islisted in Scenario A, by May 31, 2018, the City will consider actions to remove the VallcoShopping District site from the Housing Element Inventory and to add the GlenbrookApartments site and the Homestead Lanes site( Scenario B), and will considerredistributing the 389 units that could have been developed on the Vallco site as follows:35 additional units to the Oaks Shopping Center site, 150 additional units to The Hamptonssite, 58 units to the Glenbrook Apartments site, and 132 units to the Homestead Lanes site.These changes in the recommended Housing Element sites do not have the potential tocreate any new or substantially more severe significant effects on the environment, becauseall of the Housing Element sites were analyzed in the EIR at or above the number of unitsshown for those sites in the Approved Project.

​Also, please redact my e-mail address and include this as a response to the NOP for the Vallco Shopping District.

Thank you,

Randy S

San Jose