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Director's Report OFFICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT �,• CITY HALL 10300 TORRE AVENUE • CUPERTINO, CA 95014-3255 c u P E R � N a c 408) 777-3308 • FAX (408) 777-3333 • planning�cupertino.org Subject: Report of the Community Development Director� Planning Commission Agenda Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 The City Council met on November 16, 2010 and discussed the following item(s) of interest to the Planning Commission: 1. Entertainment Permit for the Oaks Shopping Center - City Council approved the entertainment permit and extended the hours of operation for such uses to 2:00 A.M. consistent with Planning Commissiori s recommendation. The City Council met on November 29, 2010 and discussed the following item(s) of interest to the Planning Commission: 1. A�peal of Wireless Facilit�on Bubb Road - City Council denied the appeal consistent with the Planning Commissiori s recommendation. The City Council met on December 7, 2010 and discussed the following item(s) of interest to the Planning Commission: 1. Five-year Extension on Tantau Retail & Parkin� Gara�e - City Council approved a three-year extension for the project making the new expiration date August 21, 2013 and all other conditions consistent with the Planning Commissiori s recommendation. 2. 2010 Buildin�Code Standards Adoption, CalGreen - City Council enacted the amendment to the Cupertino Municipal Code, Chapter 16, adopting the 2010 Building Code Standards, including CalGreen regulations. The State's code goes into effect on January 1, 2011 and the City's local amendments to the State's code become effective on January 6, 2011. Miscellaneous Items: 1. New Public Works Director - Timm Borden joined us December 6th as the new Director of Public Works. Timm comes to us from San Jose where he has worked for the last 24 years, the last eight of which he served as Deputy Public Works Director. He has his P.E. (Professional Engineer in Civil Engineering) as well as a B.S. in Civil Engineering from U.C. Davis and a Masters in Public Administration from San Jose State University. Upcoming Dates: December 23-31St City Hall closed for the Holidays Enclosures: News Articles G: � Planning �AarNS � Director's Report \ pd12-16-10.doc �� Cupertino officials urging residents to sign up for emergency alert system By Matt Wilson mwilson@community-newsoapers.com Posted: 11/04/2010 08:01:53 PM PDT Updated: 11/04/2010 08:01:54 PM PDT Very few of Cupertino's more than 50,000 residents have taken up the county and city's offer to join a new service that sends out free emergency alerts to residents throughout Santa Clara County. Recently, the Cupertino Public Safety Commission unanimously voted to work toward getting more of the city's residents and businesses enrolled in the county's AIertSCC service, which can send out thousands of inessages to residents throughout the county in the event of an emergency or disaster. AIertSCC is offered in the cities of Cupertino, Campbell, Gilroy, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill, Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Jose, Santa Clara, Saratoga, and Sunnyvale. The system is operated by the Santa Clara County Office of Emergency Services. Approximately 1,000 Cupertino residents have registered with the program since it launched in September 2009, according to Daniel Nguyen, chairman of the public safety commission, "As with any new program, participation starts off slowly but picks up once more people know about it and tell their friends and neighbors," he said. AIertSCC is an automated system with the capacity to quickly send thousands of text and voice messages to home, business and cell phones. It is a free service and uses a system similar to those used by other counties, school districts, colleges and agencies around the country. Residents must opt into the program and provide their contact information to allow the service to send messages to cell phones, PDAs, laptops, desktop computers and even devices for the hearing impaired. When the program launched, officials touted AIertSCC as one of many critical tools needed for reaching residents anywhere in the county to provide information and instructions during emergency situations such as wildfires, earthquakes, infectious diseases, floods, crimes in neighborhoods and related evacuations. "Over 50,000 people live in Cupertino, and several thousand more work here. Being able to communicate both timely and accurate information during a disaster is equally critical and challenging," Nguyen said. Depending on the location and type of emergency, residents might see alerts from the city, county or both. Currently, AIertSCC messages are sent only in English. Cupertino's low participation rate came as a surprise to some commissioners. "Usually, Cupertino is always a leader in activities that are high tech," commissioner Andy Huang said. "This is the fastest way for the government to alert residents of a major event and can give them a clue on what to do next." Huang said commissioners will work with city staff on ways to boost resident participation. "We will be focusing on the volunteer organizations," Muang said. Cupertino Block Leaders, the city's neighborhood volunteer group, will be tapped first to promote the service. To register for AIertSCC or for more information, visit www.alertscc.com. Residents can also encourage a friend or family member to sign up using a personalized photo message by visiting www.iloveyoupleasesiqnup.com. 15�Q KLIV Silicor� Valley News Posted: Friday, 05 November 2010 9:52AM CUPERTINO RESIDENTS URGED TO SIGN UP FOR EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM The city of Cupertino is urging people living there to sign up for a free emergency alert service that is being offered throughout Santa Clara County. So far, only about one-thousand Cupertino residents have signed up to the Alert SCC service, which sends out text or voice messages to homes, businesses or cell phones. City commissioners say they will work with city staff to boost participation. Format Dynamics :: C1eanPrint :: http://www.mercurynews.com/cupertino/ci_16683510?... Page 1 of 1 i��t�et'CltL�l� ��US MercuryNews.com CU ertino officials scale are on a watch list. She added that each tree was p scrutinized on a variety of criteria before it was tPee I'e1110Va1 C�OWil t0 1. l. given the go to be removed. trees The trees that will be removed will receive replacement trees of an appropriate size and location. The original proposal calls for about 50 trees to be By Matt Wilson mwilson@community-newspapers.com removed, 18 trees to be replaced due to poor health and 24 completely new trees to be planted. Posted: 11/2212010 03:02:54 PM PST Trees marked for possible removal or replacement Updated: 11/22/2010 04:04:02 PM PST were marked with colored ribbons on the site. A mere 11 trees are slated to be replaced on a site Residents were concerned that the area would have where more than 60 trees were under consideration looked extremely bare had all the trees been for uprooting. On Nov. 17, the city planning removed or replaced. department approved the stunning tree removal Cupertino city staff sent letters out to homes in the application after more than a month of debate and immediate area to inform neighbors of the proposal. feedback from tree-loving residents. There was a two-week notification and comment The city spent the past month reviewing an period which concluded on Oct. 15. The city application to remove or replace a large quantity of received a number of concerned e-mails and spoke trees in an office park along Stevens Creek with residents about the proposal, according to Boulevard and Torre Avenue. Cupertino's city Shrivastava. arborist reviewed the proposal and provided a The trees are located along Stevens Creek Boulevard, third-party independent recommendation as to which is subject to the city's Heart of the City which trees had health or structural issues. Specific Plan. The plan provides specific The Nov. 17 decision was made by the city's development guidance for the commercial corridor director of community development, Aarti and to create a greater sense of place and Shrivastava. She said each tree was carefully community identity in Cupertino. The plan also reviewed by the arborist to ensure that only those contains streetscape design, development standards and design guidelines for multi-unit residential, trees that created an extremely hazardous situation commercial and office projects. and could not be remedied by other means, such as pruning, would be approved for removal. The 11 The tree removal application was submitted by Lane trees set for removal are irreversibly diseased and Partners, a Menlo Park-based commercial real estate are in danger of falling or causing potential damage group. There is currently an appeal period going on to pedestrians or nearby structures. through next week. The decision can be appealed to Shrivastava said only those 11 trees were in the planning commission. immediate need of removal, but a half dozen or so Advertisement � � � :� � � � � � S ��g 3 �.: �. � Y� Ab.". �� `� ��. � y:: ai��a'k>: � � SaU^.R n�•: �' L� D/ b ,„ r , a � � ��' �� . ,. . .: . .. ..... :... �'� ��... . .. PNMRf��RRa�InR�F�IE�� . ��iAlJIA1R'��. Frint P�werecf E�y � ��rr��rnar�nic�' http://www.mercurynews.com/fdcp?1290552092788 11/23/2010 AppleInsider � Print: Apple nabs HP's former 98 acre campus in Cupertino Page 1 of 2 .. ffi; �, �� . � ��, s ■ � �� x .�� .. �. ► . ►. � ��: �;� ��1# .��' ,��µ- �„-_ ,�� view this artirle ak: htto•//www aopleinsider.com/articles/10/1i125/aoole nabs hps former 98 acre cam�us in cupertino.htmi thursday, november 25, 2Ulp ia� 1:OOp�n Apple nabs HP's former 98 acre campus in Cupertino Apple has greatly expanded its Cupertino, California land holdings with the purchase of a 98 acre campus vacated by HP earlier this summer. The spot is adjacent to land Apple bought in 2006. __ i According to a re ort by the Mercury News, the land had been used by HP for twenty years before it decided to pull out in order to consolidate its operations in I nearby Palo Alto. �,� �� The report noted that the HP site "has housed parts of -' -- --' that company's personal computer division as well as some of its commercial software and hardware units. )(fltlltY It's also home to a high-tech 'briefing center' where HP holds meetings and shows off products to corporate •-�-� clients." Cupertino city officials were relieved to see Apple take HP's place, a deai making Apple the largest landholder in the city and filing the million doilar hole in tax revenues that HP and its departing employees had contributed to the city. Real estate sources suggested the sale may have cost as much as $300 million, although the siuggish economy might have afforded Apple a much better deai on the prime land. In the report, Mayor Kris Wang said, "we're very proud to have Apple's headquarters in our city. It's not just a company. It's the company." Apple's Cupertino expansion Apple PR head Steve Dowling said, "we now occupy 57 buildings in Cupertino and our campus is bursting at the seams. These offices will give us more space for our employees as we continue to grow." Apple has not announced any plans for the new land, and has only started to use some of the existing buildings on its former, 50 acre land �urchase made in 2006. That chunk of land was comprised of nine separate properties Apple had stitched together in top secret plans to assemble a large enough area of contiguous office space to build a secondary campus. Originally, Apple expressed plans to level the buildings on the land acquired in 2006 and integrate them into a unified development intended to house 3,000 to 3,500 employees. That was expected to take there to four years. However, as of the end of last vear, Apple had oniy been able to rezone the land, an effort that took longer than expected because "some commissioners wanted a more definitive proposal from Apple before rezoning a prime piece of residential land." The adjacent 2006 and 2010 parcels are a mix of buildings surrounded by suburban homes, two malis, and intersected by the freeway. Part of the original land purchase had been zoned by the city for a residential use in condominium project. With the HP site added into the mix, it is expected that Apple will find it easier to integrate the two adjacent parcels into a new complex of buildings vastly larger than its existing infinite Loop campus. http://www.appleinsider.com/print/10/11/25/apple_nabs_hps_former 98_acre_campus_in... 11/29/2010 AppleInsider � Print: Apple nabs HP's former 98 acre campus in Cupertino Page 2 of 2 �P�I�'s Cuper�inr� headq�art�r exp�nsic�n 4rigir�a! Appl� t�ampus 2€�fi purch,�as�e ��: 2t�'it� hiP purchas� � � � � � �; ,� � .;� , �. �� ,.; � � � � � � . � � No place like home Apple has been a fixture of Cupertino ever since founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak located the new company there in 1977, after about a year of working out of the garage of Jobs' parents, in nearby Los Aitos. Jobs went to high school in Cupertino and expressed an affinity for the town in 2006, when he spoke before Cupertino's City Council regarding the earlier land purchase the company had decided to make one freeway interchange east of its existing campus off DeAnza Boulevard. In his remarks, Jobs said he had looked at cheaper land in other piaces when considering where to locate Apple's second campus. "But after looking at a lot of things, we found something in Cupertino that was a possibility," Jobs said. "It was more expensive, a lot more expensive than we could get elsewhere, but it was something where we could stay in the area that we like the best." ri a��'�-,1997-2008 appleinsider.com, ali rights reservecl. � � . � � s . i ' ! � .... . � ... . .. Y www �irr:Ck?ruN rnm iN'1c hv rnnnia http://www.appleinsider.com/print/10/11/25/apple_nabs_hps_former 98_acre_campus_in... 11/29/2010 Traci Caton From: Rick Kitson Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 9:56 AM Subject: City of Cupertino Kicks Off Energy and Water Efficiency Project, 11-29, 4:30 PM Cupertino City Hall CONTACT: RICK KITSON Public S Environmental Affairs Director Telephone: (408) 777-3262 • FAX: (408) 777-3262 • rickk _cupertino.org C U P E RT I N t� City Hall • 10300 Torre Avenue • Cupertino, CA 95014-3255 . November 27, 2010 City of Cupertino Kicks Off Energy and Water Efficiency Project On Monday, 11/29 at 4:30pm the City of Cupertino will begin implementation of its Energy Service Agreement Project. Paid for in part by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds, this project replaces all city-owned streetlights and irrigation controllers with state-of-the-art technologies that significantly reduce electricity and water consumption. Cupertino's annual electricity expenditure (2008) for city-owned streetlights is $208,000. By retrofitting its 2,950 city-owned streetlights with induction technology, electricity consumption savings (in kWh) of about 50% is expected. Annual water expenditure (2008) for the city is $539,000, with 95% of consumption dedicated to landscape irrigation. Up to 111 existing irrigation controllers in parks, school fields, and other areas in Cupertino will be replaced with state-of-the-art weather-based evapo-transpirative (ET) controller technology. Approximately 30% savings is expected. "With this project, we accomplish several goals simultaneously," stated Cupertino Mayor Kris Wang, "We save on our utility bills, we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, and we update our streetlight and irrigation infrastructure — all at the same time!" The project is developed and implemented by Siemens (Hayward, CA). Siemens works with cities and counties to develop clean energy capital projects (energy conservation, water conservation, and renewable energy generation) that reduce utility bills, and pay for themselves with the future consumption and operational savings. Press Conference with Mayor Kris Wang: Monday 11/29, 4:30pm, Cupertino City Hall Lobby, 10300 Torre Avenue, Cupertino, CA i �� State mandates prompt Cupertino's new green building ordinance By Matt Wilson mwilson@communitv-newspaoers.com Posted: 12/02/2010 08:02:48 PM PST Every three years, the city of Cupertino updates its building code standards. On Nov. 16, city staff incorporated the 2010 California Buitding Standards into city code. The new standards cover residential, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, fire, energy and green building standards codes mandated by the state of California. The CALGreen standards are an attempt to require all new buildings in California to be more energy efficient and environmentally responsible. The new requirements include reducing water consumption by 20 percent, diverting 50 percent of construction waste from landfills and installating low pollutant- emitting materials. Separate water meters will also be required for non- residential buildings for both indoor and outdoor use. CALGreen incorporates green building practices to aid in the state's efforts to minimize the effects of climate change and protect the environment. The California Building Standards Code is published in its entirety every three years by order of the California Legislature, with supplements published in intervening years. A local Tri-Chapter Uniform Code Committee takes on the responsibility to review and amend the model codes for regional consistency in application and enforcement. The committee develops standardized codes, interpretations and local amendments to maintain consistency from one jurisdiction to another. Unique to this year's adoption is the implementation of the Green Building Standards Code. The CALGreen code is the nation's first mandatory green building standards code and was adopted by the California Buildings Standards Commission and state on ]an. 12, 2010. All new building standards codes mandated by the state will become effective on Jan. 1, 2011. The city is creating its own green building ordinance.