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15. Cupertino Rotary Housing Corporation Mary Ave senior housing projectCity of Cupertino 10300 Torre Avenue 'r Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 777-3251 C U P S RT I N O FAX (408) 777-3333 Community Development Department SUMP-~ARY Agenda Item No. ~~S Agenda Dafe: February 2, 2010 RECOMMENDATION: Consider the following actions related to a ~~otentia118-20 unit senior, affordable housing project from the Cupertino Rotary Housing Corporation (CRHC): 1. Approve a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU} between the City and the CRHC {see Attachment A). 2. Give priority to CRHC for uncommitted Redevelopment Agency {RDA) housing funds, Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and Below Market Rate (BMR) funds. 3. Authorize $11,000 to prepare a Record of Survey for the Mary Avenue right-of-way. 4. Authorize staff to initiate the rezoning acid General Plan amendment for the project area and related funding. BACKGROUND: On January 19, 2010, the Council heard a revised request from the Cupertino Rotary Housing Corporation for City participation 1:o reflect anot-for-profit developer proposal fora 18-20 unit senior affordable housing project along the west side of Mary Avenue. Council set a date of February 2, 2010 to con,~ider a Memorandum of Understanding from CRHC. Council also asked staff to provide information on the following items: ^ Land value -approximate value of parce]. ^ Title -clarification of ownership ^ Funding and fiscal impact -including co;~ts related to the General Fund and housing funds and. providing an updated comparative analysis of City contributions for other affordable housing projects ^ Transfer options -lease vs. donation of Iand ^ Envixonmental issues -air quality and parking 15-1 The information is discussed below in the staff report. DISCUSSION: Land Value In an appraisal, the value of land is typically estimated for a variety of possible uses. The narrow and long configuration of the Mary Avenue parcel does not allow sufficient parking and loading typically required for commercial, office or higher-density residential uses. Therefore, staff looked primarily at residential use at a density of about 10-20 units/acre for this parcel. The Cleo Avenue parcel provides the best comparison for this one due to its location near the freeway and the fact that the Cleo parcel was purchased from Caltrans as right- of- way and rezoned by the City from P (R3} Planned Multiple Family Residential to P (Res) Planned Residential. The 0.2b-acre Cleo Avenue parcel was purchased by the City for $615,000. Staff estimates that the Mary Avenue project area will range from 0.75 acres to 0.89 acres depending on the final right-of-way configuration. Using a simple extrapolation, the estimate for the parcel will range roughly between $1,774,000 and $2,105,200 depending on the final parcel size. It should be noted that the Cleo Avenue parcel was bought in August 2005 when land prices were higher than they are today and we can expect the cost of the Mary Avenue parcel to be lower than the rough estimate above. In its current use, the parcel has minimal value since it has surface parking that is free and the City incurs costs to maintain the area. If it were to be turned into open space, the City would have to incur costs to rezone the property, put in improvements and maintain it. Title Although concerns about the City's title to the property were raised previously, upon further review of supporting documents, a certified engineer has confirmed that all title to the pertinent real property is vested in the City of Cupertino, so a quiet title action will not be necessary. However, the engineer recommends a Record of Survey be prepared to more accurately establish the property boundaries, including all of the property lines of this parcel and the adjoining property, as well as the adjacent street Right of Way boundaries. A Record of Survey combines both deed boundaries as well as the existing field conditions, (i.e. street right of way established via street monumentation). The estimate to prepare this document and file it with the County is approximately $11,000. There are two options to fund this amount. One is to use the General Fund now, which does not commit the City to using the site for affordable housing. The General Fund 2 15-2 expenditures may be reimbursed with housing funds later, if the Council wishes to proceed with an affordable housing project. The other option is to use housing funds now, which commits the City to using the site for affordable housing. There is, however, a process by which restrictions on affordable housing may be lifted if housing funds are reimbursed. Under CRHC's proposal, the costs would be paid out of the General Fund. Funding and Fiscal Impact CRHC is asking the City to approve a typica.I not-far profit development proposal similar to former projects such as Vista Village and Cleo Avenue which encompassed land donation or lease and allocation of housing funds (See Attachment B -Comparison of City Contributions for Other Affordable liousing Projects). Housing Funds The MOU requests first priority on available housing funds for this project. Based on the proforma prepared by Charities Housing, a scenario with 4% tax credits {Attachment C} would require grant funding; of $2,018,035 and a scenario with no tax credits (Attachment D} would require grant funding of $3,085,063. This amount does not include fees for construction tax and park fees totaling $165,800, which are waived by the City for affordable housing per the City's General Plan and BMR Mitigation Manual. Housing funds at the City of Cupe~°tino that could provide monies to this project include the Redevelopment Agency jRDA) housing funds, Community Development Block Grants {CDBG) or the Below Market Rate (BMR} housing funds. CRHC will undoubtedly be seeking similar ]lousing grants from other cities as well. The following housing monies are available and unallocated as of January 1, 2010: ^ RDA housing funds $675,000 (Estimated at $807,000 by 6-30-10); additional funds accrue at $300,0011 per year. ^ CDBG No funds currently available. Approximately $250,000 in construction funds will be available as of July 1, 2010. ^ BMR No funds currently available (all funds committed to date) Please note that housing funds are earmarked for housing projects only and generally have deadlines as to appropriation of the funds. Monies allocated from a housing fund to pay for permits and other city fees will re:~ult in General Fund revenues. When using RDA housing funds (tax increment money) outside the established redevelopment project area, the City Council and the Redevelopment Agency must make findings showing that using the mone.,~ outside the project area is of benefit to the project area, implements the goals set forth in the redevelopment plan, and is consistent with the RDA's lrnplementation Plan. Use of RDA housing funds far a project also requires that the project site be used for housing with at least 40% of the units being 3 15-3 affordable for 55 years. Additionally, based on a settlement with Bay Area Legal Aid, 5% of the RDA housing funds have to be put aside for extremely low-income (ELI} units. If the Council wishes to authorize funds from the RDA, staff will prepare a resolution of finding and a grant agreement for authorization of funding for Redevelopment Agency action at a subsequent meeting. As noted before, there is a process by which restrictions on affordable housing may be Lifted if housing funds are reimbursed. Transfer Options The MOU is flexible as to whether the land is donated or leased (long-term) to the CRHC. Environmental Issues The Council commented on the following issues: ^ Air Quality -The Council was concerned about air quality impacts due to freeway proximity. An air quality consultant will be hired to prepare a detailed analysis of impacts and mitigations as part of the environmental review for the project. Parking -The Council. was concerned about the potential impacts of removal of on- streetparking along Mary Avenue on adjacent uses. A discussion of the loss of current parking and potential impacts to neighboring properties including De Anza College, Oaks Shopping Center, Memorial Park and the Senior Center will be provided in the parking analysis. Review Process The project will require a rezoning to P {Res) Planned Residential, General Plan amendment to Medium/ High Density Residential, Use Permit, Architectural Site Approval and related environmental review. Staff will await Council's authorization before commencing project review. Council Direction Requested for Next Steps If the Council wishes to proceed with an MOU, staff is looking for Council direction related to: ^ MOU -Does the Council wish to make amendments to any portion of the MOU? ^ Lease vs. donation of land -Does the Council wish to lease or donate the land to the CRHC? Funding for the Record of Survey and filing fees -Should the funding of $11,Q00 be drawn from the General Fund or RDA housing funds? 4 15-4 Authorization for project review -Does (~ouncil wish to authorize staff to begin the rezoning and General Plan amendment f>rocess or does the Council wish to continue the discussion for authorization at a later date? Based on Council direction, the following potential items can be brought for action at a future Council and Redevelopment Agency meeting: 1. Final MOU -based on Council direction. 2. Consider giving priority to CRHC for unallocated RDA housing funds, CDBG funds for 2Q10-11 and BMR funds. 3. Resolution of Finding by the Redevelopment Agency (required for RDA housing funds) 4. Grant Agreement to fund project costs (rE~quired for RDA housing funds) 5. Council authorization to proceed with rezoning and General Plan amendment. Approved for submission to the City Council: David W. Knapp City Manager ATTACHMENTS Attachment A: Memorandum of Understanding between City of Cupertino and Cupertino Rotary Housing ~;.orporation Attachment B: Comparison of City Contrik>utions for Other Affordable Housing Projects Attachment C: Mary Avenue Village Summary Proforma - 4% Tax Credit Scenario Attachment D; Mary Avenue Village Summary Proforma - No Tax Credit Scenario 5 15-5 ATTACHMENT A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN CITY OF CUPERTINO AND CUPERTINO ROTARY HOUSING CORP. This Memorandum of Understanding (herein "MOU), for reference dated 2010, is between the City of Cupertino, a California Municipal Corporation, (herein "City") and the Cupertino Rotary Housing Corporation, a California Public Benefit corporation (herein "CRHC") and is as follows: 1. This MOU is not a binding agreement but expresses the desires of the parties wherein the City will assist CRHC in developing a project of no less than 18 units but up to 20 cottage style individual affordable rental housing units for senior tenants on certain City owned surplus right of way on Mary Avenue near the Oaks Shopping Center which has previously been identified to the City, subject to agreement of both parties on the various terms and conditions hereafter set forth. 2. The City shall at its own expense verify that it has a valid title to the site subject only to an easement in favor of CALTRANS, and that it is not subject to any restraint on its ability to transfer or lease the site. 3. The City will either: a. Transfer title to the site to CRHC with deed restrictions requiring use only for affordable senior rental housing and also prohibiting future changed usage or transfers without approval of City: or b. Lease the site to CRHC for the above purposes for the sum of $1.00 per year for 55 years, with an option for CRHC to renew for 25 years at the same rate, so long as it is not in default of lease conditions. Upon expiration of the lease term, as it 15-6 may be extended, title to the site along with all improvements thereon shall be vested in city. 4. Prior to transfer or lease; the -City shall, os its own initiative, rezone the site from T(Transportation} to R-3 (Multiple Family Residential), or such other zoning category as will allow the proposed usage under this 1vI0U. 5. Transfer or lease terms to be prepared by City's attorney and mutually agreeable to City and CRHC. 6. The City will supply equity capital for the: project to CRHC as hereafter set forth, without interest cost or repayment obligation, to be used only for costs of the project. Such equity capital shall be paid only from the City's ,available housing funds, consistent with the City's General Plan, such as BMR, Redeti•eloprnent Agency, or Community Development Block Grants. The City will grant priority of these funds (housing funds are currently estimated at $1,650,000 for the fiscal yea~•s 2010-2011 and 2011-2012) for this project as funds accrue to the City up to a maximum. of $3,350,000, and as future commercial projects are proposed and developed and ~~s any other similar sources of housing funds accrue, and will keep these funds available for CRHC so long as it is proceeding in good faith to complete its plans for the project. City shall not be obligated to supply equity capital from City's general fund. 7. The City will recover its application'fees ~~nd study costs (including environmental effects) for the project, from equity capit~il set forth in paragraph 6 above. 8. CRHC will pay for cost of any public notice for any hearing on this MOU, or any general plan amendment, zoning, or use permit, a:> is customarily required ofnon-profit housing developments. 15-7 9. The City will cooperate with any application of CRHC for Low Income Housing Tax Allocation Credits, or commercial real estate loans (subject to approval of any security arrangements requested by commercial lenders} 10. All other capital costs of the project, not mentioned above, shall be borne by CRHC from charitable contributions, tax credit financing, or similar sources and not from the City. 11. Upon completion of the project, CRHC, as part of its management requirements, shall grant a priority of housing usage to residents of Cupertino who meet the age and income requirements. However, if it becomes necessary to obtain equity capital from any other cities in Santa Clara County, then that city or cities may be entitled to preference for its residences in proportion to its equity contribution compared to the total contributions of the city of Cupertino, including as a contribution of Cupertino, the contribution of the value of the land. 12. CRHC plans to utilize the services of anon-profit housing developer such as Charities Housing to assist CRHC to complete the Project and secure funding such as Low Income Housing Tax Credits, and may wish to enter into a consulting agreement or a partnership agreement with such firm. City has no objection to any such arrangement so long as the consultant or partner has agreed to the terms of this MOU. CITY OF CUPERTINO CUPERTINO ROTARY HOUSING CORPORATION By Its ay Its 15-8 Mary Avenue Village Project Comparison of City Contributions for Other Affordable Housing Projects Ci Contribution Project Total Cost Land Honsin Funds Total City Contribution West Valle Communi Services -Vista Villa e $7,000,000 $650,000 $2,705,207 $3,355,207 48% Cleo Avenue $888,207 $615,000 $246,801 $861,801 97% Maitri $1,992,000 --- $800,000 $800,000 40% Senior Housin Solutions $1,270,000 --- $1,080,000 $1,080,000 85% M Avenue Villa e without land & 4% tax credit $5,514,857 TBD $2,018,035 $2,018,035 37% Mar Avenue Villa e without land & no tax credits $4,978,863 TBD $3,085,063 $3,085,063 62% y~ H n z H td ATTACHMENT C MARY AVENUE V1LI.AGE SUMMARY PRO FORMA Assumplbrrs: 112212010 9% Tax Credit Scenario Site Area (acres} 0.9 Number of unNs 18 Number of p8rkirrg spaces 38 N81 Residential SF 11,312 DEVELOPMENT BUDGET SUMMARY Total Per Reslderrtiat Met Realdential Line Vern Amount (hilt Square Faot Land Acquisil"ion & related casts 0 0 6 Enviroranental Audit & Remediation S,OOD 278 0 Construction fiuilding 2,438,160 113,120 186 Construction Sile Work 235,224 13,088 21 Construction btf-sale Wark 300,040 18,667 27 Cvnatruciion General CondlNonslProfil 599,990 29,899 A8 Hard Gos~l Contingency 155,589. 8,643 14 ArchitecturelErtgineering 304,589 18,698 27 legal 30,000 1,687 3 AppraisallMarket Study 10,000 556 t AudiUCost Certfflwtlon 30,OOD 1,667 3 Title Costs 37,54D 2,083 3 FumishingslFquiptneni/Markeling 63,000 3,500 8 Permits and Fees 202,239 11,238 18 local Development Impact Fees 203,816 11,312 18 Soft Cast Cantlngency and Reserves 134,212 7,456 12 Insurance S Bonds 93,341 5,188 6 Property Taxes 13,095 728 1 Construction Loan Interest/Fees 201,118 11,t73 16 Pemlanertl loan Fees) Bond Casts 214,653 11,938 19 Syndit:stion/Cwtsultanl Fees 7D9,3T1 39,410 63 7bTAL I~EVELbPMEN7 COSTS 5,514,BS7 346.381 41+6 SOH1RCEft AND U5E5 Sources Clty of Cupertino 2,183,835 CDBG 250,OOD RDA 1,788,035 Fea Wahrers 185,Pi00 Santa Clara C.,ounty Trust Fund 100,000 Cupertino Rotary dub 1,040,000 Tax Cred6 Equity i,477A22 permanent Loan 669,000 Federal }come l.aan Bank AtIP 90,000 Tout 5aurcea 5,514,857 15-10 MARY AVENUE VILLAGE SUMMARY PROFOt;MA Toiai Number of Unlta Unit Typo Unll 51ze {avenge SF} No. Of Units Q 30°/a AMt Na. of Untts ©50% AMI Mo. of Mgr. Units Total Na. of Units Unit Mbc {excl. mgr, Unlls} Proposed 30% AMI Monthly Rent Proposed SO'/° AMI Manlhly Rent Proposed Rent for Mgr, Unit 18 1 Bed 2 Bed tncama Mtx Total Rent 605 816 2 - 11.TS7'i 14 1 88.24°/6 - i 18 2 94.12°/a 5.88% 486 - 11,520 6~0 1,~0 18o,5S0 TOTAL ANNUAL RENTAL INCOME 172,0$0 TOTAL ANNUAL OPE N P 9E ~ 5,908 FIVE YEAR CAS Year 1 Year 2 Year Year 4 Year S INCOME Rental htcame Mist Income Potential Grass Income Less: Vacaneykoiteclfan Ines (57L} EHeoiA~e Gress Incarne Less: Operating Expenses Nek bperattng Encome Lass: DebtServke Bond Issuer Fees Investor AsseliManagement Fee Gash Flow before Safi Loan Repayment 172,080 175,382 180,792 188.311 159,944 1,OW 1,025 1,061 1,07] 1,104 173,080 177,407"' 181,842 186,388 191,p48 8,6b4 8,870 9,092 9,319 9,552 164,428 1S6,S3 172,750 177,089 181,496 105,344 i1D,pBS _ 113,918 117,9D5 122,p32 58,082 58,471 58,832 59,183 59,453 49,080 48,060 49,080 4$,060 48,OS0 1,680 1,560 1,880 1,680 1,660 7.500 T,T63 8,034 8,315 8,806 (i38 (12} 78 128 137 Less: Soft Loan Repayment {5076 residual cash) - 39 S4 88 NET CA5N FLOiM 3g 84 gg Assumptions Rental Income Crown, Rate 2,6076 Operalfrtg F.,xpense Growth Bale 3.507b 01119!70 4% lax Grsdit Scanerio 15 - 11 ATTACHMENT D MARY AVENUE VILLAGE SUMMARY PROFORMA Assumptions: 1124!2010 NO Tax Crerifl Scenario Site Area (aeres) 0.9 plumber of units 1 B Number of parking spans 38 Nel ResklenUel SF 11,312 t)E=VELOPMfiNT BUDGET 5UMMARY Tonal Per Residential Het Resldentfa) lion Item Amount UnEt Square Foot Land Acqulaltlon S related casts 0 0 0 Ernironmental Audit 8 Remedialion 5,000 278 0 Connlnrc8on Building 2,038,180 113.120 180 ConslruclEon Sfte Work 235,224 13,068 21 Conalructien OH•slte Work 300,000 16,867 2T CanslnrcUon General CondakutislPraBl 539,990 29.999 48 Hard Cost Contingency 155,589 8,643 14 ArchitecturalEngkraering 300,589 16,898 27 Legal 30,000 1,667 3 AppralsaUMarlcet Study 10,000 55a 1 AuditlCosl certirrcetion 3o,4aa 1,667 3 TiOe Costs 37.500 2,463 3 FurrdsfUrgls/EqulEm4nnlMlarke8ng 63.004 3,500 6 Permits and Fees 242,239 11,238 i6 Local Development impact Fees 203,616 11,312 18 5oN Coal Contingency and Reserres 110,437 8,133 10 Insurance 8 BorxiB '83,341 5,186 8 Property Taxes 13.085 726 1 Corrslruclian Loan InleresUFees 17,500 972 2 Permanent Loan Foes/ Band Cash 9,288 519 1 Constdl~i Fees 586,335 32,574 52 TOTAL DEVEt.OPiMIIF~IT' COSTS 4,976,863 278,804 410 SOURCES AND USES SourFea CEty of Cupertfna 3,260,563 CDBG 250,000 RDA 2,835,063 Fee waivers 105,800 Santa Clere County Trust Fund 1DD,DOp CuperOno Rotary Club 1,000,000 Tax Creel Equity 0 Permanent Losn 538,000 Federal Home Loan Bank AHP 90,000 Ta#ai Sources 4,978,$63 15 - 12 01124110 '• NO Tax Credit Scenario MARY AVENUE VILLAGE SUMMARY PROFpRMA Total Number of Unfls 18 UnU Type 1 Bed 2 Bed Income Mix Total Rent Unit Size (avsragq 5Fy fi05 818 No. al Units ~ 3096 AMI 2 - 11.7696 No. 01 UnHs ~ 5096 AMI 14 1 98.249'e No. of Mgr. Units - 1 Tota! No, of Units 16 2 Unit Mix (excl. mgr. Unlls) 94, f2°r6 5,8896 Proposed 9096 AMI MontYdy Rant 4$0 11,520 Proposed 5f1'Yo AMI Monthly Rent 880 1,060 180,560 Proposed Rent for Mgr. Unit • • - TOTAL ANNUAL RENTAL INCOME 172,ggp TOTAL ANNiUAL OPERAI"IN E ENS {PER, I 5,908 Fl E YEAR GABW FLAW Y=at 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 INCOME Rental income 172,D80 176,382 180,792 185,311 1ti9,944 Mist Income 1,D00 1.025 1 051 1 077 1,104 PotenUai Gross income 17J,080 177,407 181,842 188,388 191,048 Less: Vacancyhw8er~ion k+YS (59L) 8,$54 8,870 9,092 $3i9 9,552 EHsctive Gross Income 164,426 168,537 172,750 177,069 181,49fi Less: pperetlng Expenses 106,344 110,088 113,918 117.906 122 032 Net OpsraUnp income 58,082 58,471 58,832 58,163 59,463 Lsss: DeblSenrfce 50,120 50,120 50.120 50,120 50,i2fl Bend Issuer Fees - - - Investor AsssllManagemenl Fee - Cash Fbw befoia Soft Lcan Repayment 7,982 8,351 8,712 9,043 9,349 Less: Soft Laan Repayment (509b residue caehj 9,981 4,175 4,358 4,522 4,672 NET CASW FLOW _ 3,981 4,17 4,356 ,522 4,672 Assumptions Rental income Grovrth Role 2,5096 pperaling Expense C;rowth Rate 3.5094 15 - 13 ExxIBT~rs BEGIN HERE ~ ,s Linda Lagergren From: Keithddl527@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 201 O 11 :46 AM To: City Council; City Clerk Subject: Re: Mary Ave. Rotary Club MOU, public hearing date Feb 2, 201 O Dear City Council, I attended the prior special study session held for the Rotary Club Non Profit Housing Corporation to describe what it's objectives were for its request to enter into a MOU with the City of Cupertino, as the Corporation desires to provide BMR/Senior housing on surplus land which will impact Mary Avenue's street, parking, bike lanes and sidewalk infrastructure and eventual acces to the Mary Avenue Bridge. 1 was intrigued to see that many of our former Cupertino Mayor's, who many are also Rotary Club members, were in attendance to support this Rotary application for a MOU, or rather, former Mayor Lowenthal's MOU, as it was him alone who fronted the funds required to mail out the public notification for the current Feb 2 public hearing -where exactly are the supporters and financial investors who should be supporting this Rotary housing project, are there no other Rotary supporters willing to put up funds to show there commitment to this application for an MOU? I was astonished to hear former Mayor Lowenthal (now lobbyist for the Rotary Club) lecture our current City Council, about your Council's ethics and morals regarding your review of the Rotary's apllication for an MOU. Mr. Lowenthal forcefully lobbied you to disregard your fiduciary responsiblities to protect your community's fiscal intrests by taking highly questionable administrative short cut;: at the exspense of you doing your own critical thinking and avoiding the required due diligence for your consituents. Former Mayor Lowenthal surely would have avoided any appearance of impropriety during his own prior stewardship of our city, as during the Vallco and Toll Brothers housing projects. Mayor Lowenthal had in atendance at the study session several senior lobbyist who are also Rotarians, as you heard from clear Mrs. Stow, who was clealry aged by her tireless litigation brought in pursuit of building a housing utopia in Cupertino. Please accept my appologies, I do not wish to make light of my fellow respected residents, but I do wish for you to criticailly reflect on how a precieved fiduciary conflcit of interest impacts our community, by creating divisons and distrust bf:tween city officials and residents, which are lingering concerns for many residents today, a legacy left over from the Lowenthal adminsitration and his fellow Rotarian supporters who prefer litigation and veiled threats to sway public oFinion and our City Council, rather then invest in our democratic process, particpate in public hearings, and invest in openess and transparency to resolve development disagreements. I am deeply disappointed and angry that the Rotary Senior housing project has been in development for the past three years, yet the Rotary Club and its city staffer prolobbiest avoided h<~ving this project reviwed at the recent Housing Element Update hearings. These community hearings were advertised as being a facilitated workshop to precisely discuss this type of BMR/Senior housing project with the guidance ~~f a hired consultant knowledgeable in current housing issues and laws. Rotary particaption would have allowed our newly educated residents time to understand the benefits of this infill, high density, BMR Senior housing project to our community, but like the goals of the Housing Element Update hearings themsleves, participants were kept from particpating in any productive review and discussion, a waste of city funds, as the consultant hired failed to provide interaction for residents of our community in the future production and placement of housing of all types in our community in a more restri~~ted climate, as the discussion should have been facilitated by discussing real examples, precicesly like the Rotary Housing project porposed to be developed on surplus city land. I fear inovation regarding furture BMR/Senior Housing projects is n~ct going to be a facilitated partnership between our residents and developers as our city staff and former Community Developement Director had once promised. The responsibility to develope housing in our community is being reallocated to private organisations, ones who are not elected and then avoid responsiblity to voters, in the case of lobbyi~sst Mr. Lowenthal, who pontificates that he is acting in our community best interests but who avoids transparency and op~~ness with our resident's who apply critical thinking in the review of the Rotary's MOU. No applicants project, placed on city surplus land, should be considerd to be so precious as to have our City Council take administrative short cuts from following all customary application review, requiring customary fees and avoide pefoming due dilgence to discover all ficcal impacts to both our city budget and the RDA budget -this situation is precisely why you should be more cautious;, not less, as there is a conflict of intrests and your critical judgement is being compromised. A growing concern for your constituents is for the decline of indeper~dent fiduciary judgment on the parts of the City Council - a conflict which is limiting your ability for doing a critical analysis of the MOU application now before you. This preceived bias impacts your neutrality; your elected representatives mandated to feducially protect all tax payers rights and city funds. This growing bias is also a conflict of interest fcr the majority of our city staffers who are prolobbying for the Rotary MOU application, as many staffers have political and social ties to the Rotary Club as well. Due to this perceived fiduciary conflict of interest for City staff, who •appear to be lobbying in favor of the MOU, the City Council and city staff should consider hiring an outside independent. consultant to determine the true financial impact to both our city's future budget, as well as for any future impacts and obligations to our City's RDA with out bias, with a worse case scenario being outlined, one describing the default of d<~bts, should the Rotary Corporation be found unable to keep its commitments in the proposed MOU, passing full financial and legal responsibilites over to the city. An independent consultant should be advised to research and describe how the city should best dispose of its current and future surplus lands, by either selling them outright, copartner in ownership and its development, or donate the land out right to provide incentives to supply the much needed BMR/Senior housing projects for our community, while also meeting our ABAG mandates as a desired result too. The independent consultant should develop a new frame work for our city official's to follow, a process which promotes housing development on surplus city property by advocating for informed consent in it's disposal, with our city officals advocating for proactive outreach to both public and private developers in the production of BMR/Senior housing at a resonable cost to our city and built on surplus lands designated for this specific kind of development- The Mary Avenue surplus land has real value to our community even in its current state, which is addtionaly proven by the new attention which reallocating surplus city property for BMR/Senior housing has clearly generated and by happy circumstance, this reallocation of land could help mitigate future Ai?AG requirements which impact commercial and retail expansion in our city. The use of an independent consultant would greatly alleviate the current perception held by your constiuents, that of a conflict of interest existing between our greatly respected community based public service clubs, like the Rotary Club, and for there perceived conflicted political and social interactions with our city staff and City Council members. Your constituents greatly desire City staff and City Council member's to retain their full independence, insuring that the City Council will deliberate and resolve key issues like the disposing and rezoning of surplus city owned lands which is best achieved in a transparent way, ensuring that the very best BMR/Senior housing projects are developed for the City of Cupertino, by advocating for only the highest quality BMR/Senior housing projects are built to benefit our entire community, with no ill effect to our city's fiscal soundness. This can be best achieved by following all customary state laws and customary regulations for disposing of surplus public lands, which offer guidelines to avoid any unintended discrimination against any of our community's competitive nonprofits and forprofit developers; any of these institutions who have not been given adequate notification or time that surplus city lands are now being made available for either donation or for sale, for reallocation as land for building affordable BMR/Senior housing projects. The current M.O.U. now in development is being drafted at worrisome fast pace, as pressure from the Rotary Club is being placed on all city officials who will deliberate and make administrative decisions on the MOU and then preside over all eventual public hearings that will be forth coming out of th~it agreement. Unwelcome pressure from Pro-Rotary supporters will make it hard for both city staff and our City Council members to maintain there fiduciary independence and protect our city from agreeing to fiscally unsound future budget allocations, creating unintended financial liabilities which could put into question our city's long term financial independence, limiting the city's ability to control future debt loads, which as a concequence, will limit the available funding required for future city services. It is my view, that all public notification attempts by the Rotary Clut> to describe future impacts to Mary Ave. neighborhoods and greater city at large have proved to be wholly inadequate. The current postcard notifications have not educated impacted residents as to the true nature of the development which is proposed, as Mary Avenue is a main traffic route for both residents and local commuters, and is require~y as parking over flow for Memorial Park users, the Senior Center users, and for many De Anza College students and parking will soon to be sought out by a redeveloped Oaks Shopping center and Hotel cliental. The Mary Ave. senior housing project area should be clearly outlined with "story pole" inspired traffic cones and a large project site map should be posted at both entrances of the a'Ffected street. These tentative project maps should clearly show all of the proposed M.O.U's impacts which will eefectively narrow that portion of Mary Avenue, show the removal of 68+ parking spaces ar~d current street and sidewalk infrastructure. This type of public notification is what our planning department currently advises for all residential housing applicants to use, as applicants are required to notify there affected neighbors who will be impacted by new development. The use of story poles, or traffic cones in this case, are a well respected tool to inform neighborhoods of impending changes being brought by new development, or before a MOU has been fully reviewed and approved by the City Council in principle, a tool which fosters full public participation and feed back, in the case, befi~re the approval of a MOU agreement. It is the desire of your residents to know the full scope of this MOU's future fiscal impacts to our city's budget, please allow more time for the transparent and timely release of all the financial impacts to the City's budget and then for any debt load being placed on the City's RDA. Many of your constituents living in the impacted area will eventually realize that they have been poorly informed, as impacted residents, they will surely challenge the implementation of the MOU as the applicant's project struggles through the public review process. It would be unfortunate for both our City and the Rotarian Corporation to spend thousands of private and taxpayer dollars on predevelopment costs, only to find that public support is lacking, perhaps even negative, due to the lack of timely community out reach, a prot~lem the City Council is well aware of. What exactly is the "standard street width" in Cupertino, or at the very least, what is the width of the new street that is being proposed for the Mary Ave project? Mary Ave. will lose 68+ parking spaces, it will be dramatically narrowed, shrunken down to exactly what street width? - will it be 48', 42', 30' wide or even less? Please require that a site plan will be included in the MOU, one whi<:h clearly shows all proposed street widths associated with the rezoning of the Mary Ave. area for a senior BMR housing project; clearly show all measured widths for sidewalks, planting strips/trees, new parking areas, bike paths, any public easements and the "standard street width" available for cars on Mary Avenue. This site map should begin from the Hwy. 85 Eastern sound wall, going over to the boundary of the private property owned by Avery Group, which is located to the West across the street from this proposed senior housing project area, covering the whole length of the project along Mary Avenue including it's associated city park which will be impacted too. I have read the preliminary MOU documents and staff reports, they describe that our city will be allocating housing funds for this Rotary Club project from several municipal revenue "buckets>." I'm concerned that currently proposed funding requirements will exceed city funds which are presently on hand, including RDA incremental tax revenues that are projected for the future, now reduced by the recent auction sale of Cupertino Square (Vallco) due to defaulted contruction debts. The Rotary Club nonprofit Housing Corporation desires to develop 18 small bungalow senior housing units, but there project will require an estimated funding contribution by our city of :about $3,350,000+ but currently the city's housing fund "buckets" have a total balance of $1,057,000, which would logically obligate our city to make further contributions of another $2,293,000 should the Rotary Corporation fail to source any of it's own key private funding, then the financial burdens passes to the city, while undisclosed financial investor's wtio partner with the Rotary Nonprofit Housing Corporation will not be impacted, but done at the city's and taxpayer's expense - if that is what the city is promoting, please explain in the MOU how this type of investment strategy is good for our city's future and taxpayer's expense, to recieve in trade 18 BMR Senior housing units? have unresolved financial liability concerns for a local community Lased Rotary Club nonprofit housing Corporation, a Corporation which has no prior local experience in developing and :administering BMR/Senior housing projects, why I must ask you, what happens if Rotory can't keep all obligations it enters into with a MOU with our city? Are you addressing all fincial defualt possibilites in the MOU? am personally concerned that our city's estimated annual net allocation of $300,000 currently ear marked for housing - all of the available housing funds currently available -will these funds be exclusively committed to the Rotary Non Profit Housing Corp. project, an untested entity which has no prior perfonrance record in providing and administrating BMR/Senior housing, yet this untried Corporation would ask our City Council to tie up 100% of the city's future housing funds for the next 8 years or until approximately 2018. This would effectively stop all future city council's from funding innovative and perhaps more competitive lovv income housing projects until well after 2019. What would happen if a local land owner/developer like Apple Computer comes forward, as a possible example, and Apple desires to fund low income housing in other parts of Cupertino, rather then in North Vallco development area? If Apple desired to avoid building housing on there own commercially zoned properties, perhaps Apple would negotiate to pay for all of the customary application processing fees, perhaps they would buy surplus city lands at there fair market value, perhaps they would build more then 18 senior housing units in a more integrated, inovative and competitive design, perhaps they would pay our city an in lieu fee to place housing in other parts of our community allowing Apple to develop its 50 acres site as an unhindered commercial tax base for the benefit of our community and Apples own profitable bottom line too. I hope our current City Council will not preclude Apple, along with aim equally motivated commercial developer in our community, by not informing all private sector developers that surplus land could be made available to build BMR/Senior housing, freeing up prime commercial property to be developed or redeveloped as it is currently zoned, allowing commercial property to generate the much desired local ta;c dollars needed for our community infrastructure projects, while happily avoiding further ABAG constraints being placed on our commercial and retail developments in our city -this makes fiscal good sense. Please postpone any further action on the MOU until these issues are thoroughly addressed by all parties concerned and done so in a public forum with timely public notification. A postponement would save both the Rotary Club nonprofit Housinc3 Corporation and our City from spending funds ill advised on this project too prematurely, please wait until all of the financial issues are revealed and mitigated, take the required time for residents to be adequately informed as to the full scope of this project so informed residents can support the MOU on the front end, then please allow time for other forprofit or nonprofit development groups to have a chance to submit their own proposals for BMR/Senior housing projects placed on surplus city lands for the production of BMR/Senior housing, but provided at a resonable cost to our city. Thank you. Keith Murphy 408-252-6503 cG/a -a -io ~ /S Grace Schmidt From: Leslie Gross Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 201 O 10:27 AM To: Grace Schmidt Subject: MASH Public Comment Desk Item From: Padmini Ongole [mailto:npsongole@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 10:12 AM To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept. Cc: Leslie Gross Subject: Reg. Senior housing project on Mary Ave Dear Sir/Madam My name is Padmini Ongole and I live in Casa De Anza towrihouse complex on Mary Ave. It is always a noble idea to provide affordable housing for Seniors in the community. However, I have a few objections to the plan for building it on Mary Ave that is so close to the freeway. The following are my points against the project. 1) 18 senior homes will be constructed next to Casa De Anza on roadside on occupation of half of road space which is currently a vehical parking lot leading to huge crowd/congestion and more traffic. This is a kind of creating unsafe conditions to local community. 2) The senior houses planned to construct are 7-8 feet away from sound and seniors will be subjected to continous exposure to HW 85 sound pollution. Not enough space to move away from sound wall for house construction 3) Elimination of center line with 3 lanes will lead to narrow Mary Ave road that causes traffic issues and prone to accidents. This will impact close neighbourhood i.e Casa De Anza Community 4) Losss of many(more than 96) free parking spaces on Mary Ave that is currently used by Memorial part event visitors, De Anza college students( students are still using these parking spaces in adding to available spaces within college complete and also there are free parking spaces that students benefit from) 5) Lot of visitors for the events "Flea Market in De Anza Cornplex","Moon Festival", "Diwali", "Drama and Movie screen in the park", etc., uses these parking lots with .LOO% full. Flea Maket is a very regular event that occurs on first Saturday of every month and all parking lots are fully utilized. 6) Recently constructed Cupertino Historic Bridge across H\N 280 drives more bikers and walkers from near by community.. Lot of local community residents are using thiese partking lots as they park their cars here and walk across and towards bridge. Thanks to City of Cupertino for spending huge tax dollars for this bridge and they do need to make sure ample parking on either side of bridge to facilitate more Cupertino residents make use of this bridge. 7) Similar proposal of construction of these houses has been rejected by City few years ago due to one of the reasons being traffic. What changed now and why this proposal is entertained? 8) Many Cupertino city residential areas are already crowded and don't they deserve some extra space for walk, bike and breathe fresh air? The very same space can be developed by City for a small "Green belt" by planting additional trees next sound wall without loosing parting lot and wihtout narrowing Mary Ave road lane. 9) Eliminating more than 96 parking spaces will bring more cars infront of Casa De Anza complex parking spaces. This is the direct impact to Casa De Anza community Regards Padmini Ongole 10375 Mary Ave, Cupertino, CA Cc.-% ~ -~- -I C) ~i5 Julie Hejza From: JESSICA TRACY [rosetracy3@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 201 O 4:45 PM To: City Clerk Cc: rosetracy3 @sbcg I o bal. n et Subject: Communication to Council for 2/2 Agen~~a Dear Cupertino City Council Members, Due to a conflict with a local school PTA board meeting that I am a member of, I cannot attend tonight's meeting. I appreciate you taking my comments via email under consideration as public testimony. My family lives in the Garden Gate neighborhood of Cupertino (has for 20 years) and has seen a lot of improvements made to the area in that time. The Quinlan Center, new Senior Center and the care of the beautiful and spacious Memorial Park are all examples of the City of Cupertino using space that benefits everyone in the community and maintaining a spacious and attractive area. I would like to write you in support of the proposed Senior Housing project on Mary Avenue. This area is in our "back yard" and in speaking with my neighbors of the Garden Gate area, we all felt strongly that this would be a great use of a rather awkward piece of underutilized land. There are many members of our community that have chosen careers such a teachers and those who work with the public that may not have the retirement resources to allow them to remain in our community once they retire. We would like -to see Cupertino continue to support efforts that allow people with limited economic resources to be able to remain in our community. We support the Senior housing project on Mary Avenu~a as a win-win for our community, for the surrounding Oaks Center, Senior Center, Quinlan Center and Parks, and to provide a more attractive and neighborly look and feel to a large stretch of road that currently invites unsafe car speeds, is bordered by an ugly sound wall and would be much better used under the proposed plan. Thank you for your time and consideration, Jessica Rose Tracy 10410 Ann Arbor Avenue Garden Gate Neighborhood / Block Leader Grace Schmidt From: Leslie Gross Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 5:20 PM To: Grace Schmidt Subject: MASH Public Comment Desk Item -----Original Message----- From: Rnghupnthi Subbinh [mailto:rsubbiah@cownre.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 5:02 PM To: Leslie Gross; City of Cupertino Planning Dept.; rnghupathis@ynhoo.com Subject: Cupertino: Mary Avenue Senior Housing Project You have received this link of Cupertino from: Rnghupnthi Subbinh <rsubbinh@coware.com> http://www.cupertino.org/index.aspx?pnc~e=965 Dear Cupertino City Planning council, This project is going to create too much traffic hurdle an~~ parking space issues. I wish to inform my serious objections against this proposed project. Please consider. Thanks and Regards, Raghu Rnghupnthi Subbinh c ~ -~l•~~ ~l~ ~~ s- Grace Schmidt From: JESSICA TRACY [rosetracy3@sbcglob;al.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 201 O 4:45 PM To: City Clerk Cc: rosetracy3@sbcglobal.net Subject: Communication to Council for 2/2 Agen~9a Dear Cupertino City Council Members, Due to a conflict with a local school PTA board meeting th~it I am a member of, I cannot attend tonight's meeting. I appreciate you taking my comments ~iin email under consideration ns public testimony. My family lives in the Garden Gate neighborhood of Cupertino (has for 20 years) and has seen a lot of improvements mode to the area in that time. The Quinlan Center, new Senior Center and the care of the beautiful and spacious Memorial Park are all examples of the City of Cupertino using space that benefits everyone in the community and maintaining a spacious and ~zttrnctive area. I would like to write you in support of the proposed Senior Housing project on Mary Avenue. This area is in our "back yard" and in speaking with my neighbors of the Garden Gate wren, we all felt strongly that this would be a great use of a rather awkward piece of underutilized Innd. There are many members of our community that have cho~:en careers such n teachers and those who work with the public that may not have the retirement resources to allow them to remain in our community once they retire. We would like to see Cupertino continue to support efforts that allow people with limited economic resources to be able to remain in our community. We support the Senior housing project on Mary Avenue as a win-win for our community, for the surrounding Oaks Center, Senior Center, Quinlan Center and Parks, and to provide a more attractive and neighborly look and feel to a large stretch of road that currently invites unsafe car speeds, is bordered by an ugly sound wall and would be much better used under the proposed plan. Thank you for your time and consideration, Jessica Rose Tracy 10410 Ann Arbor Avenue Garden Gate Neighborhood /Block Leader ~ /Jc Grace Schmidt From: Leslie Gross Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 201 O 10:26 AM To: Grace Schmidt Subject: MASH Public Comment Desk Item __ __ From: Subrahmanyam Ongole [mailto:songole@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 10:10 AM To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept. Subject: Mary Ave Senior Housing Project Dear sir/Madam My name is Subrahmanyam Ongole and I live in Casa De Anza townhouse complex on Mary Ave. It is always a noble idea to provide affordable housing for Seniors in the community. However, I have a few objections to the plan for building it on Mary Ave that is so close to the freeway. The following are my points against the project. 1) 18 senior homes will be constructed next to Casa De Anza on roadside on occupation of half of road space which is currently a vehical parking lot leading to huge crowd)/congestion and more traffic. This is a kind of creating unsafe conditions to local community. 2) The senior houses planned to construct are 7-8 feet away from sound and seniors will be subjected to continous exposure to HW 85 sound pollution. Not enough sF~ace to move away from sound wall for house construction 3) Elimination of center line with 3 lanes will lead to narrow Mary Ave road that causes traffic issues and prone to accidents. This will impact close neighbourhood i.e (:asa De Anza Community 4) Losss of many more than 96) free parking spaces on Mary Ave that is currently used by Memorial part event visitors, De Anza college students( students are still using these parking spaces in adding to available spaces within college complete and also there are free parking spaces that students benefit from) 5) Lot of visitors for the events "Flea Market in De Anza Cornplex","Moon Festival", "Diwali", "Drama and Movie screen in the park", etc., uses these parking lots with 9.00% full. Flea Maket is a very regular event that occurs on first Saturday of every month and all parking lots are fully utilized. 6) Recently constructed Cupertino Historic Bridge across H~'V 280 drives more bikers and walkers from near by community.. Lot of local community residents are using these partking lots as they park their cars here and walk across and towards bridge. Thanks to City of Cupertino tFor spending huge tax dollars for this bridge and they do need to make sure ample parking on either side of bridge to facilitate more Cupertino residents make use of this bridge. 7) Similar proposal of construction of these houses has been rejected by City few years ago due to one of the reasons being traffic. What changed now and why this proposal is entertained? 8) Many Cupertino city residential areas are already crowded and don't they deserve some extra space for walk, bike and breathe fresh air? The very same space can be' developed by City for a small "Green belt" by planting additional trees next sound wall without loosing parting lot and wihtout narrowing Mary Ave road lane. 9) Eliminating more than 96 parking spaces will bring more czars infront of Casa De Anza complex parking spaces. This is the direct impact to Casa De Anza community Thanks 8c Regards OSM (Subramanyam) "Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have ~,~vith those less fortunate than you. Broaden your vision, for the whole world belongs to you." - Sri Sri Ravi Shaukar, Founder, flrt of Living Foundation. http•//www artoflivin~urojects.ora c~/a-a-id ~ /5 Grace Schmidt From: Susan Sievert [spsievert@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 201 O 10:37 AM To: City Council; City Clerk Subject: Written Communication Item 15 Written Communication Item 15 Dear Cupertino City Council, The taxpayers pay for a monthly publication that reaches every home in the community known as the Cupertino Scene. Currently, the City lists only approved projects, which is a bit too late for concerned citizens to raise a red flag. Might I suggest that projects of note be included in the Scene to solve the ongoing, cityv~~ide noticing expense issue? However, if an applicant is in a hurry to meet aself-benefiting deadline, then the applicant should not kick when asked by our governing body to pay for fire sale noticing. I am all in favor of providing low-cost senior housing, but I can't appreciate why these units are detached because the seniors I know are overwhelmed by yard work. Could they not accommodate a few more units if they were Glenbrook Apartments' style? In terms of this property not having value, the applicant has lost me completely. This isn't exactly the lost and found department where unclaimed goods are turned over to the party that finds them. Now that it has been identified as surplus land, I can think of several valuable uses for it, including a dog run, which would also drive business to the adjacent and struggling Oaks Shopping Center. Mary Avenue has been there for as long as I can remember, and while I appreciate the applicant's good faith gesture, the hastiness of this arrangement makes me uncomfortable, as does the former Mayor's unbecoming public assf~rtion that he is somehow being mistreated by the City Council that is only doing what is asked of them by the electorate. To paraphrase an old saying, poor planning on the applicant's part should not constitute an emergency on the taxpayer's part. Susan Sievert Monta Vista/Cupertino GL/a -a -/cam ~ i5 Grace Schmidt From-_ Anuradha [anuradha_rb@yahoo.com] Sent•_ Monday, February 01 , 201 O 9:43 PM To• City of Cupertino Planning Dept. Subject: Public Hearing on proposal of construction of Seniro homes on Mary Ave From Casa Deanza Resident. To Whomsover it may concern. Below are some of the points which needs to be considered strongly before the construction of senior homes: 1) 18 senior homes are proposed to be constructed next to Casa De Anza on roadside on occupation of half of road space which is currently a vehical parking lot leading to huge crowd/congestion and more traffic. This is a kind of creating unsafe conditions to local community where there are more kids. 2) The senior houses planned to construct are 7-8 feet awa~~ from sound and seniors will be subjected to continous exposure to HW 85 sound pollution. Not enough space to move away from sound wall for house construction 3) Elimination of center line with 3 lanes will lead to narrow Mary Ave road that causes traffic issues and prone to accidents. This will impact close neighbourhood i.e Casa De Anza Community 5) Lot of visitors for the events "Flea Market in De Anza Complex","Moon Festival", "Diwali", "Drama and Movie screen in the park", etc., uses these parking lots with 1 ~~O% full. Flea Maket is a very regular event that occurs on first Saturday of every month and all parking lots are fully utilized. Removing these parking lots will cause congestion and traffic. 6) Recently constructed Cupertino Historic Bridge across HW 280 drives more bikers and walkers from near by community.. Lot of local community residents are using these partking lots as they park their cars here and walk across and towards bridge. Thanks to City of Cupertino for spending huge tax dollars for this bridge by making it convinient and beautifying Cupertino and they do need to make sure ample parking on either side of bridge to facilitate more Cupertino residents make use of this bridge. 7) I heard from few people around that similar proposal of construction of these houses has been rejected by City few years ago due to one of the reasons being traffic. But why is this proposal being raised now.. 8) Many Cupertino city residential areas are already crowded and it is really necessary for them to have some extra space for walk, bike and breathe fresh air ?keeping the community healthy and kids bike around safely. The very same space can be developed by City for a s-mall "Green belt" by planting additional trees next sound wall without loosing parting lot and wihtout narrowing; Mary Ave road lane. 9) Eliminating more than 96 parking spaces will bring more cars infront of Casa De Anza complex parking spaces. This is the direct impact to Casa De Anza community and the Foot Bridge. I hope you will consider and give a thought of the above poirits before construction of Senior homes and take a wise decision. Thank you Anuradha c~/~ -~ -icy ~ /5 Grace Schmidt From: appals patnala [patnalarp@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 01 , 2010 10:08 PM To: Leslie Gross Cc: City of Cupertino Planning Dept. Subject: Opposing of Mary Ave Senior Housing Construction -Public Hearing on 2nd Feb 201 O Hello City Council Members, I live in Casa De Anza complex which is very next to the proposed senior housing construction place on Mary Ave. I strongly oppose construction of 18 houses at the expen:;e of more than 90 parkng spaces on Mary Ave. I wanted bring following points to your notice for valid considerations to reject the proposal. 1) Elimination of parking spaces on Mary Ave will cause traffic issues due to making the road narrow. 2) 18 senior homes will be constructed next to Casa De Anza on roadside on occupation of half of road space which is currently a vehical parking lot leading to huge crowd/congestion and more traffic. This is a kind of creating unsafe conditions to local community. 3) The senior houses planned to construct are 7-8 feet away from sound wall and seniors will be subjected to continuous exposure to HW 85 sound pollution. Not enough space to move a~nray from sound wall for house construction. How does this help seniors? Is this really a safe place for seniors? 4) Lot of visitors for the events "Flea Market in De Anza Complex","Moon Festival", "Diwali", "Drama and Movie screen in the park", etc., uses these parking spaces with 100% full. Flea M.aket is a very regular event that occurs on first Saturday of every month and all parking lots are fully utilized. 5) Recently constructed Cupertino Historic Bridge across HW 280 drives more bikers and walkers from near by community. Lot of local community residents are using these partk.ing lots as they park their cars here and walk across and towards bridge. Thanks to City of Cupertino for spending huge tax dollars for this bridge and they do need to make sure ample parking on either side of bridge to facilitate more Cupertino residents make use of this bridge. 6) Similar proposal of construction of these houses has been rejected by City few years ago due to one of the reasons being traffic. What changed now and why this proposal is entertained? 7) Many Cupertino city residential areas are already crowded and don't they deserve some extra space for walk, bike and breathe fresh air? The very same space can be developed by City for a small "Green belt" by planting additional trees next to sound wall without loosing parking lot and wihtout n:3rrowing Mary Ave road lane. 8) Eliminating more than 96 parking spaces will bring more cars infront of Casa De Anza complex parking spaces. This is the direct impact to Casa De Anza community The negative impact is directly on communitites in close proximity to the site and the immediate community is 'Casa De Anza'. I am not against senior homes at afforable cost. Is this a rigt-it place for such housing? Are those seniors who are going to be living there are really safe? Do we know how long in a day seniors exposure the sound pollution? Please consider above impactul points and REJECT the proposal. Regards, Appals Patnala 10321 Mary Ave Cupertino, CA 95014 c~/a -a -io ~ is Grace Schmidt From: Duleep Pillai [duleepg@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 201 O 6:56 AM To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept. Subject: Proposal for Senior housing Hello, I am a resident of Casa De Anza complex on Mary Ave. I am not against BMR housing for seniors. Hereby want to register my opposition to the proposal of eliminating the parking spaces and buffer lane for the project. Narrowing the road can make it unsafe for bikers and autos, and can cause congestion. Please reject this proposal. Thank you. Duleep Pillai ~/a-a-/cam ~ /5 Grace Schmidt From: Ranjan Desai [ranjan@randecon.com] Sent: Monday, February 01 , 2010 6:28 PM To. Leslie Gross Cc: City of Cupertino Planning Dept. Subject: Re: Cupertino City Public Hearing on O~!/2/2010 at 6:45 PM -Proposal of Senior housing construction on Mary Ave Hello, I would like to voice my concerns in the Cupertino City Put~lic Hearing on 02/2/2010 at 6:45 PM - Proposal of Senior housing construction on Mary Ave. I nm for constructing senior homes at a different location to provide secured gated community housing for seniors rather than nt a narrow unsecured location on Mary Ave. Thanks, Ranjan Desai 10335, Mary Ave_, Cupertino, CA 95014 # /5 Grace Schmidt From: Senthil Kumar Pandurangan [senthil@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 01 , 201 O 9:46 PM To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept. Subject: Public Hearing on proposal of construction of Seniro homes From Casa Deanza Resident. To Whomsover it may concern. Below are some of the points which needs to be considered strongly before the construction of senior homes: 1) Senior homes are proposed to be constructed next to Ca<:a De Anza on roadside on occupation of half of road space which is currently a vehical parking lot leading to huge crowd/congestion and more traffic. This is a kind of creating unsafe conditions to local community where: there are more kids. 2) The senior houses planned to construct are 7-8 feet awa}~ from sound and seniors will be subjected to continous exposure to HW 85 sound pollution. Not enough space to move away from sound wall for house construction. 3) Elimination of center line with 3 lanes will lead to narrow Mary Ave road that causes traffic issues and prone to accidents. This will impact close neighbourhood i.e ~:asa De Anza Community. 4) Lot of visitors for the events "Flea Market in De Anza Complex","Moon Festival", "Diwali", "Drama and Movie screen in the park", etc., uses these parking lots with 100% full. Flea Maket is a very regular event that occurs on first Saturday of every month and all parking lots are fully utilized. Removing these parking lots will cause congestion and traffic. 5) Recently constructed Cupertino Historic Bridge across HW 280 drives more bikers and walkers from near by community.. Lot of local community residents are using these partking lots as they park their cars here and walk across and towards bridge. Thanks to City of Cupertino for spending huge tax dollars for this bridge by making it convinient and beautifying Cupertino and they do need to make sure ample parking on either side of bridge to facilitate more Cupertino residents make use of this bridge. 6) I heard from few people around that similar proposal of construction of these houses has been rejected by City few years ago due to one of the reasons being traffic. Bur why is this proposal being raised now.. 7) Many Cupertino city residential areas are already crowd-ed and it is really necessary for them to have some extra space for walk, bike and breathe fresh air ? keepi~ig the community healthy and kids bike around safely. The very same space can be developed by City for a srnall "Green belt" by planting additional trees next sound wall without loosing parting lot and wihtout narrowing Mary Ave road lane. 8) Eliminating more than 96 parking spaces will bring more cars infront of Casa De Anza complex parking spaces. This is the direct impact to Casa De Anza community and the Foot Bridge. Please consider and give a thought of the above points before construction of Senior homes and take a wise decision. Thank you, Senthil ~- ~ 5 Grace Schmidt From: Vijayalakshmi [vijayalakshmis 2000@y:ahoo.com] Sent: Monday, February 01 , 2010 1 1 :14 PM To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept. Subject: Would like to oppose senior homes construction on Mary Ave Hi There ! I live in Casa De Anza, very next to the proposed site. I do not see any value add in constructing homes in this very limited space. With due respect to Senior Citizens, just to accommodate 18 seniors, city is going to disrupt about 150 family members, In terms traffic ,losing open area,narrower road and many more inconveniences. We do not deserve this. Hope you all consider these feedback and take a constructive decision. thanks, Viji ~~/a-a-~o # ~s Grace Schmidt - From: Leslie Gross Sent•_ Monday, February 01, 2010 9:27 AM To: Grace Schmidt Subject: MASH Desk Item-Public Comment-5 . ..... .... .... .. __ _. _ From: barinder saini [mailto:barinder.saini@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:04 PM To: Leslie Gross Subject: Mary Avenue Senior Housing Project Hello Leslie Gross, My name is Barinder Saini, and I am owner and resident of 10467 Mary Avenue, Cupertino, CA 95014 (Casa De anza community). I recently received a notification about P/Iary Avenue Senior Housing (MASH) Project. I have read the study documents related to the project. It is great to know that our city cares about our seniors and is trying to help them by providing affordable housing. Howe~~er, I respectfully disagree with this proposal. Here are few points that I would like the city council to consider during the hearing for MASH project. 1. The senior homes that will be constructed next to Casa De ~~nza community will further occupy half of the road space that is currently used for vehical parking. This reduction in parking space will lead to crowd/congestion and more traffic. This will create unsafe conditions to local community. 2. The senior houses will be constructed 7-8 feet away from s~~und wall. The Seniors residing in the units will be subjected to continuous exposure to Highway 85 sound polllution causing them distress. There is not enough space between the sound wall and the houses that will be constructed. 3. Elimination of center line with 3 lanes will lead to narrow ivIary Ave road resulting in traffic related issues and increasing the risk of accidents. This will impact close neighborhood i.e. Casa De Anza Community. 4. The effective loss of parking spots will be many more than 96 free parking spaces on Mary Ave that is currently used by Memorial park event visitors, De Anza college students (students are still using these parking spaces in addition to available spaces within college as they t~enefit from free parking spaces) and visitors to near by communities. 5. Lot of visitors for the events such as "Flea Market in De Anza Complex", "Moon Festival", "Diwali", "Drama and Movie screen in the park" etc. utilize 90% - 100'% of these free parking spaces on a regular basis. Flea Maket is a very regular event that occurs on first Saturday of every month and all parking lots are fully utilized. Reduction in parking space will force visitors to abuse parking in the nearby residential areas. 6. Recently constructed Cupertino Historic Bridge across Hil;hway 280 drives more bikers and walkers from near by community. Lot of local community residents are using these parking lots to park their cars, and walk towards the bridge. Thanks to City of Cupertino for spending; huge tax dollars for this bridge. The city need to ensure that ample parking is available to facilitate more Cupertino residents make use of this bridge. 7. I have learned from my neighbors that a similar proposal of construction of these houses had been rejected by City few years ago due to one of the reasons being traffic. What has changed now, and why is this proposal being entertained again? 8. Many Cupertino city residential areas are already crowded, and they deserve some extra space for walk, bike i and breath of fresh air. The very same space can be developed by City for a small "Green belt" by planting additional trees next to sound wall without loosing parking lot, and without narrowing Mary Ave road. 9. Eliminating more than 96 parking spaces will bring more cars in front of Casa De Anza complex parking spaces. This will directly impact the Casa De Anza communit}~. I hope that city council will consider these points, and will move this project to a more suitable place within city of Cupertino. I look forward to the outcome of the hearing. Sincerely, Barinder Saini 10467 Mary Avenue Cupertino, CA95014 (408) 863-0445 ~~2-Z-fo ~1S Linda Lagergren From- croschwab@aol.com Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 2:20 PM To: City Council Subject: Mary Avenue Project Dear Mayor and Council Members: I would like to urge your support for the Mary Avenue senior housinl3 project. For the past 36 years, I have been a homeowner in the Casa de Anza condominium complex, which is just down the street from the proposed project. Over that time 1 have walked and driven down Mary Avenue thousands of times and am probably more familiar with the site than almost anyone in Cupertino. Please consider the following points when making your decision concerning the proposal: It, of course, will help provide low cost senior housing for C~~pertino. Housing that is within walking distance of the Senior Center, Oaks Shopping Center, De Anza and Flint Center, Whole Foods, and other shopping. It will improve the appearance of a section of street that no~N is only a large expanse of unattractive asphalt, concrete sound wall, and occasional parked cars, trucks, biases, and construction dumpsters. It will provide trees, sidewalks, and improvements to the small adjacent park area for a more walkable city. It will help to slow the auto traffic on Mary Avenue, and pro~~ide a safer route for the bike traffic that has increased since the completion of the Mary Avenue Bike Bridge. By using the site for senior cottages, it prevents future use for some other, less acceptable, alternative. A previous proposal for the site involved much larger homes, and would have negatively impacted parking, traffic, schools, and the general appearance of the neighborhood. That plan was thoroughly opposed by the neighboring residents. Current use of the auto parking area occurs mainly for the 'start of De Anza sessions, flea market Saturdays, Flint Center programs, and the now less frequent, Memorial Park events. Parking for all of these activities can be, and should be, accommodated at De Anza. I am not a Rotary member, but I applaud their civic mindedness in :his and other activities, and would hope that the City of Cupertino would make every effort possible to support and assist them in this program. Sincerely, Christopher Schwab 10353 Mary Ave, Cupertii webvan.com ,,~„k..,,,y ~,".~ _ ~ - - I~ ~~~ _ °' ' "~'°"` "'°°"~"°"-a We deliver the works! ~. ~ / a -a -ie ~ ~s Grace Schmidt From: Leslie Gross Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 9:26 AM To: Grace Schmidt Subject: MASH Desk Item-Public Comment-4 -----Original Message----- From: Datta Sawnnt [mnilto:dnttasawnnt@netzero.net] Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 7:25 PM To: Leslie Gross Subject: Cupertino: Mary Avenue Senior Housing Project You have received this link of Cupertino from: Dntta Sawnnt <dnttasawnntC~netzero.net> http'//www Cupertino org/index asex~page=965 Dear Sir / Madam, We are very much concerned about this project as this will create a traffic congestion for current local community. We would like you to request you, please over view the project again and take local community opinion/suggestions/concerns and re-think it. As it is Mnry Ave. is very busy during weekdays and week~ands. And eliminating Parking space will be huge issue. We strongly object to this project. ..Datta Sawnnt Datta Sawnnt pis Grace Schmidt From: Leslie Gross Sent: Monday, February 01 , 201 O 9:26 AM To: Grace Schmidt Subject: MASH Desk Item-Public Comment_2 From: PADMA]A PETLA [mailto:padmaja_petla@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 4:41 PM To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept.; Leslie Gross Subject: Mary Ave Senior home construction proposal --- "OPPOSING ELIMINATION OF PARKING SPACES AND NARROWING ROAD LANES" --- Hi Council Members, Based on the letter received from City of Cupertino for "Put~lic Hearing on Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) between The City and Cupertino Rotary Housing Corporation on 2nd Feb at 6:64 PM for a potential Senior Housing Construction on Mary Ave road side vacant strip(including part of roadway) between Casa De Anza and Oaks Shopping Complex", I here by OPPOSE the construction of 18 senior homes at the expense of loss of several parking spaces due to the following reasons: ~ There are 18 senior homes are planned to construct at the expense of more than 96 parking spaces next to Casa De Anza on roadside on occupation of half of road space which is currently a vehical parking lot leading to huge crowd/congestion and more traffic. This is a kind of creating unsafe conditions due to narrow lane to local community. Does City really want to do this? ~ Understand that seniors are going to live the porposed n.=_w houses that are very close to HW sound wall are going to be subjected to continous exposure to sound I~ollution. This is does to need proof and it can be felt by any common man/woman pass by the sound wall. ~ Losss of many(more than 96) free parking spaces on Mary Ave that is currently used by Memorial park event visitors, De Anza college students( students are still using these parking spaces in adding to available spaces within college complete and also there are' free parking spaces that students benefit from) is not justifiable. Request City to to dis-approve the proposal taking pros and cons of this project. ~ Lot of visitors for the events like ~~Flea Market in De Anz~i Complex","Moon Festival", '~Diwali", 'Drama and Movie screen in the park", etc., uses these parking lots with 100% full. Flea Maket is a very regular event that occurs on first Saturday of every month and all parking lots are fully utilized. ~ Cupertino Historic Bridge across HW 280 drives the end of Mary Ave drives more bikers and walkers from near by community. Lot of local community resident<_: are using these partking lots as they park their cars here and walk across and towards bridge. Thanks to City of Cupertino for spending huge tax dollars for this bridge and they do need to make sure ample parking on either side of bridge to facilitate more Cupertino residents make use of this bridge. Based on the above facts and impacts I request City to reject the proposal. Regards, Padmaja Petla Casa De Anza resident. Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sian up now. c~ / a -a- -!tom ~ /5 Grace Schmidt - From: Leslie Gross Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 9:24 AM To: Grace Schmidt Subject• MASH Desk Item-Public Comment-1 __ _ __ _ _ _ _ ._ __ _ From: nirmala pailla [mailto:nirmala007@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 6:42 PM To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept. Subject: Public Hearing on proposal of construction of Seniro homes on Mary Ave Hello I strongly oppose the construction of senior homes by Rotary Housing corporation on Mary Ave for the following reasons: 1. Currently these parking spots are used by many Cupertino residents who visit Memorial Park, Flee Market on 1 st/2nd Saturday and for De Anza student parking. If these parking spots are eliminated, parking lots in front of Casa De Anza will be next target for visitors to parking. 2. city of Cupertino spent and built an expensive foot bridge to connect cupertion to Sunnyvale. Since the opening of foot bridge the number of bikers, walker acid runners have increased. Narrowing the road to allow construction does not make sense at all when the traffic has increased. It will lead to more accidents and travelling on Mary ave will become unsafe. 3. There are lot of school going children in this area as this is one of the good areas for elementary, middle and high schools. There is lot of traffic on Mary during school begin and end times. Seniors needs more time to cross the roads so building a senior home next to busy streets should not be considered at all. 4. Seniors need a better place to live than right next to ttie intersection of two major freeways. 5. If there is free space that City wants build some thing., i have no objection but encroaching into the existing roads does not make sense at all. 6. There should be some spaces here and there to preser/e the character of Cupertino instead of crowding the city with construction everywhere and make Cupertino also one of those cities where people are not welcome. Regards, Nirmala Pailla Resident of 10419 Mary Avenue cam/ a-a-~° ~,5 Grace Schmidt From: Donna Jones-Dulin [jonesdulindonna@fhda.edu] Sent: Friday, January 29, 201 O 2:58 PM To: City Clerk Cc• jimdg5170@aol.com; spataforemarisa~>fhda.edu Subject: Fwd: Fwd: Affordable Senior Housing >Dear Mayor Wang and Members of the Cupertino City Council: >It has come to my attention that there are concerns regarding the >proposed Affordable Housing Project for Seniors on Mary Avenue and the >perceived potential need for De Anza student and staff ~~arking. >I would like to allay any concerns. >Thanks to the citizens of Cupertino and other communitiE:s in our >district, the Measure E bond approved in 1999 afforded De Anza the >opportunity to build the Stelling Parking Structure and rEZdesign >Parking Lots A, B and C. With these improvements, we were able to >increase parking capacity to serve our current and proje<:ted number of >students and staff. There are rare occasions, generally a few days at >the beginning of the fall term, when student parking may extend to Mary >Avenue. This brief, occasional spillover should not be construed as the >college's need for off-campus parking. >I understand there is also a concern regarding parking for Memorial >Park festival attendees. Please be assured that, whenever possible, the >college will work with event organizers to accommodate ~~arking needs. >We would, of course, need to consider ongoing campus activities, and >there would necessarily be a fee for parking, but we will do whatever >possible to provide an additional resource for our community. >I hope this addresses any concerns you or other community members may >have. Please contact me if you hove additional questions, need further >information, or would like me to address these issues at an upcoming >council meeting. >Sincerely, >Donna Jones-Dulin >Donna Jones-Dulin >ASSOCinte Vice President >Finance & Educational Resources >De Anza College >21250 Stevens Creek Blvd >Gupertino, CA 95015 >408.864.8209 > jonesdulindonnn@dennzn.edu ~ iS Grace Schmidt From: Leslie Gross Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 1:29 PM To: Grace Schmidt Subject: MASH Comment Letter Desk Item __ _ _ __. From: Sudha Andra [mailto:sudhausa@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, February O1, 2010 12:54 PM To: Leslie Gross Subject: Public Hearing -Senior Housing on Mary Avenue Hi Leslie, live in Casa De Anza town homes on Mary Ave. I strongly oppose the senior housing project due to following reasons 1. This project is increasing the number of residents live in Mary Ave and at the same time reducing the road width, which will cause more traffic accidents. More over there is possibility of building more cross walks across the: road and changing the speed limit to 25. This will results in more inconvenience to the neighborhood. 2. I do not like the idea of taking away 150 public parking on Mary Ave. These are very helpful for all the events in the Memorial Park. I think it is very important to preserve the roads, parks as they are not only for the current generation but also for future generations. The road and parking once lost we cannot get them back. 3.We have a beautiful and award winning bridge at the end of the road. So it is important to keep the road unchanged. Finally if city wants to give land to this project please provide some~nrhere else. Not at this location at the expense of City roads by causing inconvenience to the neighborhood. Regards, Sudha Andra 1 G~/a-~ - icy ~ ~s Grace Schmidt From: Leslie Gross Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 2:31 PM To: Grace Schmidt Subject: MASH Public Comment Desk Item From: ravindrabharathy sridharan [mailto:ravirama@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, February O1, 2010 2:27 PM To: Leslie Gross Cc: Rama Ravindra; 'Ravindra Bharathy sridharan' Subject: Cupertino City Public Hearing on 02/2/2010 -Senior homes on Mary Avenue Hello Leslie I am a resident of Casa De Anza Complex on Mary Avenue. Rye have been told of the proposal by the Cupertino City in building 18 senior homes next to our complex with a plan to reduce the number of lanes as well as parking space. As you know, Mary Avenue has been the heart line for students for both DeAnza College as well as Garden Gate Elementary School. Due to these wonderful educational institutions around, which are part of the great educational institutions in Cupertino i.e., Lawson, Kennedy and Monta Vista, has been providing education to our kids and making them important citizens of our country. This has made many of us move to this area. The move by the City for this senior homes not only reduces tl-ie space on this heart line (Mary Avenue), but also increase the risk of accidents and congestion for the residents and kids. In the recent past , we have see Cupertino City, build this wonderful bridge connecting the two end of Mary avenue which has encouraged health and wellbeing. We have rioticed more and more people come and park vehicles on Mary avenue to make a trip across the bridge. The senior homes proposal would limit the parking space and make it more risky for the residents. Memorial Park, yet another landmark location in Cupertino, hosts many activities and shows throughout the year,in addition to Flea Market at DeAnza College grounds. Dixring these events, we notice road signs 'No Event Parking' in almost all the cross streets around this area. With this senior homes, Cupertino City will reduce the parking spaces even more and adds more risk in terms of congestion and traffic. I would like Cupertino City to reconsider its decision on building the homes. I am pretty sure, having such homes for seniors near the freeway would not do them any good either. Regards Ravi Casa Deanza Resident- 10371 # is Grace Schmidt From: Leslie Gross Sent: Monday, February 01 , 201 O 2:20 PM To: Grace Schmidt Subject: MASH Public Comment Desk Item From: Ramesh Yerraguntla [mailto:ryerragu@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February O1, 2010 1:49 PM To: Leslie Gross Subject: Public Hearing -Potential Senior housing project Dear Leslie, I would like to speak at the public hearing and here are my concerns. My Name is Ramesh Yerraguntla. I own home in Casa De Anza. Complex in Mary Avenue. 1. I oppose the project. This project is going to increase the traffic due to additional homes at the same time reducing the road with by 15-20 feet which is a d~~uble impact to the neighbors. 2. Obviously the Speed is going to be reduced to 25 from 35. The road is going to be two lanes from three lanes. It is not shown where seniors will cross the road. There will be one or two cross walks across the street. This will result in more accidents. 3. It will be difficult to drop and pick up children during s~~hool timings. There will be more traffic accidents. 4. We are going to lose more about 150 parking places Parking helping community -Guests, Memorial Park events, Oak Complex, De Anza College Parking. Memorial park is used for most of the city events. This project is directly going to affect the Memorial Park events. With growing population I do not agree to lose any existing parking by donating them to private property. For example for Veterans Day the all the cross parking lots were full. 5. The parks, Roads and trees and forests will not only help current generation but also future generation. So once the road is lost we cannot get it back for the future generation. 6. We have an expensive 17 million dollars award winning bridge at the end of the Mary Ave. We need to preserve the road that leads to the bridge. 7. I bought home in Casa De Anza because of the wide Mary Ave, Easy driving to schools, fewer accidents in the Mary Ave. This new project is going to severely :effect my expectations. Hence I strongly oppose this project. 1. If some groups have money to build home please ask them to buy land somewhere else and build home to seniors. But please do not give away the Mangy Avenue to them. 2. If City wants to help Rotary club please find and give F~lace somewhere else. 3. Please do not donate the land that is already approved for the road. This is going to severely affect the Casa De Anza residents, neighborhood and Cupertino City future generations. c~/a-a -io ~ ~s Grace Schmidt From: Leslie Gross Sent: Monday, February 01 , 201 O 3:47 PM To: Grace Schmidt Subject: MASH Public Comment Desk Item From: Sudhakar Reddy [mailto:sreddy007@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, February O1, 2010 2:22 PM To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept. Subject: Public Hearing on proposal of construction of Seniro home=s on Mary Ave Hello City Council, I oppose the proposal of constructing senior homes on Mary Ave for the following reasons: 1. Loss of many(more than 96) free parking spaces on f~/lary Ave that is currently used by Memorial part event visitors, De Anza college students( students are still using these parking spaces in adding to available spaces within college corriplete and also there are free parking spaces that students benefit from) 2. Lot of visitors for the events Flea Market in De Anz:j ComplexO,OMoon FestivalO, ^? Diwali^O, ODrama and Movie screen in the parkO, July 4th celebration, Cherry blossom festival, etc., uses these parking lots with 100% full. Flea Maket is a very regular event that occurs on first Saturday of every month and all parking lots are fully utilized. 3. Eliminating more than 96 parking spaces will bring rriore cars infront of Casa De Anza complex parking spaces. This is the direct impact to Casa De Any:a community. 4. After the foot bridge was built, Mary ave has become busy with walkers, bikers and runners. If the road is reduced, then there will be lot of traffic congestion which will lead to accidents. And the very purpose of foot bridge for the Cupertino residents to enjoy biking, walking and running will be taken way after spending so many tax dollars of'the residents. 5. For the betterment of Cupertino residents, city should plant some trees to counter the pollution rather than adding to it. 6. Why city wants to build senior homes next to two frfaeways involving sound and air pollution and causing more health problems to seniors? Regards, Sudhakar reddy Resident of Casa De Anza Complex, 10419 Mary Ave (408) 873-4848 Grace Schmidt From: Leslie Gross Sent: Monday, February 01 , 201 O 3:44 PM To: Grace Schmidt Subject: MASH Public Comment Desk Item From: santosh Dhavalikar [mailto:sdhavalikar@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, February O1, 2010 2:59 PM To: City of Cupertino Planning Dept. Cc: santosh Dhavalikar Subject: Homes for senior members at May Avenue in Cupertino, C:A. Hi, We request not to consider the proposal for homes for senior citizen on Mary Avenue, Cupertino, CA. This will disturb current infrastructure, will increase traffic and pollution for current residents on that area. We feel this is not the appropriate place for such proposal however the intent to provide residential place to senior citizens is good and may be consider some alternate place as they will not have any liability such as school etc for which they have to be in Cupertino. You may consider some alternate place for same. Hope you will consider our request to maintain peace and livelihood for our stay here. Thanks 8c Regards, santosh Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now. i GC-/off -oZ -!~ ~ !S Grace Schmidt From: Leslie Gross Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 201 O 8:12 AM To: Grace Schmidt Subject: MASH Public Comments Desk Item -----Original Message----- From: mnry anila [mnilto:mary_nnilaG~ynhoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 8:02 AM To: Leslie Gross Cc: johcruz@cisco.com Subject: Cupertino City Public Hearing Hi Leslie, We are in 10327, Cnsa De Anzn. My husband (John Cruz) is planning to attend 2/2/2010 public hearing, for the reason that, elimination of center line with 3 lanes will lead to narrow Mary Ave road that causes safety problems for Casa De Anzn Community. Thanks for coordinating this. Mary Grace Schmidt From: Leslie Gross Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 201 O 7:41 AM To: Grace Schmidt Subject: MASH Public Comments Desk Item From: appals patnala [mailto:patnalarp@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February O1, 2010 10:08 PM To: Leslie Gross Cc: City of Cupertino Planning Dept. Subject: Opposing of Mary Ave Senior Housing Construction -Public Hearing on 2nd Feb 2010 Hello City Council Members, I live in Casa De Anza complex which is very next to the proposed senior housing construction place on Mary Ave. I strongly oppose construction of 18 houses at the expen;;e of more than 90 parkng spaces on Mary Ave. I wanted bring following points to your notice for valid considerations to reject the proposal. 1) Elimination of parking spaces on Mary Ave will cause traffic issues due to making the road narrow. 2) 18 senior homes will be constructed next to Casa De Anza on roadside on occupation of half of road space which is currently a vehical parking lot leading to huge crowd/congestion and more traffic. This is a kind of creating unsafe conditions to local community. 3) The senior houses planned to construct are 7-8 feet away from sound wall and seniors will be subjected to continuous exposure to HW 85 sound pollution. Not enough space to move away from sound wall for house construction. How does this help seniors? Is this really a safe place for seniors? 4) Lot of visitors for the events "Flea Market in De Anza Complex","Moon Festival", "Diwali", "Drama and Movie screen in the park", etc., uses these parking spaces with 1009~o full. Flea M<rket is a very regular event that occurs on first Saturday of every month and all parking lots are fully utilized. 5) Recently constructed Cupertino Historic Bridge across HW 280 derives more bikers and walkers from near by community. Lot of local community residents are using these partking lots as they park their cars here and walk across and towards bridge. Thanks to City of Cupertino for spending huge tax dollars for this bridge and they do need to make sure ample parking on either side of bridge to facilitate more Cupertino residents make use of this bridge. 6) Similar proposal of construction of these houses has been rejected by City few years ago due to one of the reasons being traffic. What changed now and why this proposal is entertained? 7) Many Cupertino city residential areas are already crowded and don't they deserve some extra space for walk, bike and breathe fresh air? The very same space can be developed by City for a small "Green belt" by planting additional trees next to sound wall without loosing parking lot and wihtout narrowing Mary Ave road lane. 8) Eliminating more than 96 parking spaces will bring more cars infront of Casa De Anza complex parking spaces. This is the direct impact to Casa De Anza community The negative impact is directly on communitites in close proximity to the site and the immediate community is 'Casa De Anza'. I am not against senior homes at afforable cost. Is this a right: place for such housing? Are those seniors who are going to be living there are really safe? Do we know how long in a Jay seniors exposure the sound pollution? Please consider above impactul points and REJECT the proposal. Regards, Appals Patnala 10321 Mary Ave Cupertino, CA 95014 c~ a/a/io ~ /S Grace Schmidt From: Leslie Gross Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 201 O 7:39 AM To: Grace Schmidt Subject: MASH Public Comment Desk Item _ _ - _. From: Maneesh Pawar [mailto:mrpawar@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February O1, 2010 10:50 PM To: Leslie Gross; City of Cupertino Planning Dept. Subject: Mary Ave, request to please NOT construct newly proposed senior homes along freeway 85 1) 18 senior homes will be constructed next to Casa De Anza on roadside on occupation of half of road space which is currently a vehical parking lot leading to huge crowd/congestion and more traffic. This is a kind of creating unsafe conditions to local community. 2) The senior houses planned to construct are 7-8 feet away from sound and seniors will be subjected to continous exposure to HW 85 sound pollution. Not enough sK~ace to move away from sound wall for house construction 3) Elimination of center line with 3 lanes will lead to narrow Mary Ave road that causes traffic issues and prone to accidents. This will impact close neighbourhood i.e C:asa De Anza Community 4) Losss of many more than 96) free parking spaces on Mare Ave that is currently used by Memorial part event visitors, De Anza college students( students are still using these parking spaces in adding to available spaces within college complete and also there are free parking spaces that students benefit from) 5) Lot of visitors for the events "Flea Market in De Anza Con-iplex',"Moon Festival", "Diwali", "Drama and Movie screen in the park", etc., uses these parking lots with 100% full. Flea Maket is a very regular event that occurs on first Saturday of every month and all parking lots are fully utilized. 6) Recently constructed Cupertino Historic Bridge across HV~/ 280 drives more bikers and walkers from near by community.. Lot of local community residents are using th~ase partking lots as they park their cars here and walk across and towards bridge. Thanks to City of Cupertino f~~r spending huge tax dollars for this bridge and they do need to make sure ample parking on either side of briidge to facilitate more Cupertino residents make use of this bridge. 7) Similar proposal of construction of these houses has been rejected by City few years ago due to one of the reasons being traffic. What changed now and why this propo<_;al is entertained? 8) Many Cupertino city residential areas are already crowded and don't they deserve some extra space for walk, bike and breathe fresh air? The very same space can be developed by City for a small "Green belt" by planting additional trees next sound wall without loosing parting lot and wihtout narrowing Mary Ave road lane. 9) Eliminating more than 96 parking spaces will bring more czars infront of Casa De Anza complex parking spaces. This is the direct impact to Casa De Anza community thanks for listening -Maneesh ~/~-~-ice ~ iS Linda Lagergren From: Ann Cleaver [anncleaver@mac.com] Sent: Monday, February 01 , 201 O 8:1 O PM To: Barry Chang Subject: Rotary Affordable Housing Barry: I hope you will support the Rotary Affordat~le Housing on Mary Ave. The Seniors need affordable housing in Cupertino. There are places to live but they are quite expensive -- like the Forum where you have to buy in. Or there are expensive rental:, but this would give Seniors a good choice. And look how close it will be to the Sr. Center. Please give it your vote. Ann Cleaver cc / a -a -ice Linda Lagergren ~-`~5 From: Lynn Ching [changeit@bigplanet.com] Sent: Monday, February 01 , 20'I O 6:02 PM To: City Council Subject: Senior Housing I am writing in support of the Rotary Housing Project. this is a worthwhile project, so please move forward with this project in working with Cupertino Rotary. Thank you-- Lynn Ching Rotarian for 9 years CUP~Kt Capital With Tax Credits Ca tip al Cost _ __ _ _ _ ~ Land Acquisition $ - ', Environmental Audit and Remecliation .. _ $ 5,000 ' onstruction Building .. $ 2,036,160 ' Construction Site Work _m $ 235,224 Construction off-site work $ 300,000 Construction General Conditions/Profit $ 534,90 Capital Sources Hard Cast Cantingency _ $ 155,5~q CDBG $ 250,000 Architecture/Engineering _ $ 300,569 _ RDA.. _ $ 1,758,035. Legal _ _ $ 30,000 , Fee Waivers $ 165,8G% Appraisal/Market Study $ 10,000 HausingTrust.... $ 100,OC~0 .. Audrt/Cost Certification $ 30,000 Cu ertmo Rota ' $ p.~.... ~' 1,000,000 '. M.. .. Title Casts $ 37,500: Tax Credit Equity $ 1,477,022 Furnishings/Equipment/Marketing $ r~3,000 Permanent Loan , $ 664,000 Park Dedication and Construction tax fe ;7 1~. `,4~ ~i~ ' __ Federal Home Loan Bank AHP $ _ 90,000 .- __ Permits and ~lther Fees ', .. _rv _ $ 36,439 Total $ 5,514,857 ' local Development Impact fees .. .wrr .... , .. _.. $ 203,616 Soft Cost Cantingency and Reserves $ 134,212 Insurance and Bonds $ 93,341 ! :General Plan. Policy 3-5: "The City will continue Property Taxes $ 13,395 to waive park dedication and construction tax Construction loan Fees/Bond Costs $ 2u1,118 fees for all affardahle units." ..Permanent lawn Fees/Bond Costs $ 214,853 ' ' Syndication/Consultant Fees $ _ 7~~9,311 ~_ Total Development Casts $ 5,514,857 Capital Without Credits Ca tial cost land Acquisition ' $ - ', Environmental Audit and Hernediation $ 5,000 Construction Huilding $ 2,~?3i7,150 Construction Site Work $ 235,224 Construction off-site vaork. $ 500,000 _, Construction General Conditions/Profit $ 539,990. Capital Sources ... ., . Hard Cast Contingency $ 155,569 ' CDHG Architecture/Engineering _ $ 300,569 kDA legal _ _ _ $ 30,000 Fee Waivers Appraisal/Market Study _. Audit/Cost Certification 1n,000 Housing Trust $ . 250,000 $ ._..2,835,063. $ 165,fia~~~ $ 100,000 30,000 Cupertino Rotary $ 1000 000 ~' Title Masts .. .. $ 3 7,500 Tax Credit Equity $ - FurnishingsjEquipment/Marketing $ 63,000.... _. Permanent loan $ 538,000 Park Dedication and Construction taxfees $ 16~,8~~~G Federal Home Laan Hank AHP $ 90,000 _ Permits and Cther Fees $ 36,439 Total $ 4,78,863 Local Development Impact Fees $ 203 616 Soft Cost Contingency and keserves $ 110 437 _ _ Insurance and Hands $ 93,341 General Plan Policy 3-5:'°Tl~e City v~ill continue Property Taxes $ 13,095 'to vraive park dedication and construction tax Construction loan Fees/Hand Casts $ 17,500 ... '.fees for all affordable ur7its." Permanent loan Fees/Hand Casts $ 9,288 Consultant fees $ 586,335 Total Development Costs $ 4,918,863 What's the best use of this land? aaw+..-~.~.. .. ..~ ~. . 4 ,.... _.m. a.