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Tag Archives: General Plan
A Building Moratorium between Developments to Control Growth
Vallco business and shopping mall, with its proposed 2,000,000 sq. ft. of office space next door to the new Apple campus has been submitted for the city’s approval which would bring in more than 10,000 employees. The Oaks and Goodyear Tire proposals have just been submitted for consideration. The Target property has been purchased by a developer and will soon have a proposal as will Marina, Cupertino Village and many others. This onslaught of new construction and growth in our small city in a short space of time brings with it concerns of exploding traffic congestion … Continue reading
Why Bicycles are So Beneficial to Cupertino
Cupertino it the epitome of an urban sprawl community that is trying to morph into a urban city. However urban sprawl, ideal for car, is not so for public transportation or walking. Its many winding mazed roads and dead-end streets make public transportation impractical near most streets and walking laboriously long. In the process it is undergoing dramatic growth and severe growing pains. But unlike a person growing up with a genetic road-map of how to grow Cupertino has no road-map. So it is growing more like a cancer cell out of control. Continue reading
Future Cupertino Traffic Projections (Including General Plan Data)
The following is an update of the post Future Cupertino Traffic Projections. This analysis focuses upon the number of Cars in the city and projections of car numbers to 2015 (present time) and 2023 (8 years when the current General Plan … Continue reading
Posted in Considerations
Tagged Apple Campus, car growth, cars from outside city, census data, General Plan, housing units, not sustainable, office space
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Letter to City: Future Growth and Traffic in Cupertino
Letter from me to Cupertino Planning Department 8/9/2015 (with minor corrections): Dear Planners of our City, I do not think our City Government has a firm grasp of the future traffic issues in Cupertino based upon the GPA. Let me … Continue reading
Future Cupertino Traffic Projections
[Note: this article has a followup that include data from the latest General Plan numbers for anticipated growth.] Here are some census data from 1990 to 2010 of adults 18 years and older: 1990: 31,533; 2000: 37,083; 2010: 42,227 When … Continue reading
Heated Conflict between City Government and Residents
There have recently been a number of contentious and heated discussions between Cupertino residents and City Council involving proposed commercial developments in the General Plan Amendment. The city is concerned that more than 30% of the its sales tax revenues … Continue reading
Why are Citizens Against More Housing But Not Traffic Congestion?
There is a very strong movement against Housing Growth and where to place mandated housing in Cupertino fueled in part because of traffic congestion around their neighborhoods and schools. But few are addressing traffic directly which is the real problem. … Continue reading
Letter to City Council: Mobility Element missing from the General Plan – Bicycles as an Alternative to more Cars
Dear Honorable Mayor Rod Sinks and City Council members, As an observer of what has transpired in the General Plan Amendment meetings and workshops it occurs to me that they are mostly about Commercial and Housing elements. There is nothing … Continue reading
Posted in Considerations
Tagged bicycling, city council, Community Vision 2040, General Plan, Mobility Element
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Cupertino General Plan – There is no Mobility Element!
The General Plan has as its foundation the Community Vision 2040 which is a guiding set of documents intended to assure that the General Plan remains balanced and contains the various key elements of this Vision. Two of the elements … Continue reading
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