Exhibit CC 05-01-12 #23 McClellan Ranch /f2
Grace Schmidt
From: Gilbert Wong
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 7:34 AM
To: Amy Chan; Timm Borden; Carol Korade
Subject: Fwd: Comments for tonight's council agenda item-McClellan Ranch
FYI
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From: Gail Bower<gb136 @comcast.net>
Date: Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:25 AM
Subject: Comments for tonight's council agenda item- McClellan Ranch
To: citycouncil @cupertino.org
Hello,
Regarding tonight's agenda on the item of approval of the McClellan Ranch Master Plan 2012
Update -- I strongly endorse adopting the new names of McClellan Ranch Preserve" and "McClellan
Ranch West" and look forward to approval of that. I also ask that council acknowledge/accept
that a previous city council DID add the Simms property to McClellan Ranch and therefore
Simms/McClellan Ranch West should be protected under the same nature preserve protections as
the original part of McClellan Ranch. Please protect this property as part of McClellan Ranch
Preserve with the same rules and regulations.
With regard to the"McClellan Ranch West house the previous council that added Simms solved the issue of the
house by renting it out (just the house - NOT the entire property) by making the tenants caretakers of the
preserve with some duties to protect it.
Please accept my comments into the public record on this matter.
Thank you,
Gail l) )vvcr
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Grace Schmidt
From: Gail Seeds
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 9:10 AM
To: Timm Borden; Mark Linder
Cc: Ryan Roman; Donna Henriques; Barbara Banfield
Subject: FW: FYI - Fwd: Tonight: Important Cupertino Council Meeting
FYI—
Gail
From: Cheri Donnelly
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 8:52 AM
To: Gail Seeds
Subject: FYI - Fwd: Tonight: Important Cupertino Council Meeting
Gail, I just received this.
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Important Cupertino City Council Meeting
Tonight
Tuesday, May 1 , 7:00 pm
Cupertino Community Hall Council Chamber
10350 Torre Avenue
Hi all, I included a notice of this meeting in the SPCWC Newsletter I sent out Friday.
Several people got back to me with their concerns that the Cupertino City Council
is considering moving several historical buildings from other sites to McClellan
Ranch in order to create a "historical village" there. Acterra has taken no position
on this possible use of McClellan Ranch. However, since I know this issue is likely
to be of high interest to many of our members, I want to make doubly sure you
know about it. What follows here is the official invitation to this meeting from the
city, a copy of a letter from Doug Cheeseman to the city council on this subject,
and a reprint of an editorial by Deborah Jamison which I had included in the
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r newsletter. -Joanne
McClellan Ranch Master Plan Project Update
Posted Date:4/26/2012
McClellan Ranch Master Plan Project Update
You are invited to attend the Cupertino City Council meeting on May 1, 2012, at 7:00 pm in the
Community Hall at 10350 Torre Avenue in Cupertino.The City Council will consider approval of the
McClellan Ranch Master Plan 2012 Update.The City Council will also consider formally changing the
names of McClellan Ranch Park and the Simms property to"McClellan Ranch Preserve"and
"McClellan Ranch West" respectively.Your comments are welcome at this meeting.You may view the
staff report and the associated documents on the City's website at the following link:City Council
Meeting Agenda
Letter from Doug Cheeseman:
Dear Members of the Cupertino City Council,
I have heard rumors that there is talk of changing the wonderful McClellan Ranch property by
including a "historical village". I believe this would be a huge mistake.
• I have been involved going back to the 1970's when Nancy Hertert brought to the City Council the
idea of setting McClellan Ranch aside to be used as a preserve and a garden for Cupertino citizens.
Also it was suggested that a nature program be carried out at McClellan with a small museum and
that Santa Clara Valley Audubon should use the facility as its home.Also horseback riding was to
continue to McClellan Ranch.The area was to be used by the community in a state of multiple use.
The stream and native trees make McClellan a very lovely area for students from the local elementary
schools, Monte Vista H.S.and De Anza College to study. Students like Stevens Creek as a preserve
and not as a historical village. If we want to stimulate students to go into science,then we need local
reserves where they can observe nature at work and learn some ecology. Too many people have no
education in the field of ecology, due to not having any ecological science classes when growing up.
With all the environmental problems confronting the earth today people need to be educated in this
field of science. These natural reserves are the way to get students interested. The stream
restoration project at Blackberry Farm was well done, but please do not ruin the natural areas at
McClellan Ranch.
McClellan is a wonderful park and multiple use area and it should not be rededicated,certainly not to
be used as a historical village with houses put where the grassy meadows now are thriving so well
and the stream runs through the riparian area. I think it would be a terrible crime to change
McClellan into an area similar to Kelly Park in San Jose.
Please help the community of Cupertino continue to use McClellan as a nature preserve that has a
garden,small natural history museum that is used by an active entomology group(The Bug Club)and
Santa Clara Valley Audubon.Santa Clara Valley Audubon is very active in the community and will be
very opposed to putting into either of the two preserves a historical village.
I was at the opening of De Anza College in 1967 and have always enjoyed visiting McClellan Ranch
with my students. McClellan Ranch had an important impact on all my student over the years. I
taught biology majors until I retired in 1998 and produced a lot of great biologists,doctors,dentists
and other professions in the biological sciences. We must preserve our natural areas that have a
natural use if only for the benefit of students who need natural areas to understand how nature
works.
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newsletter. -Joanne
McClellan Ranch Master Plan Project Update
Posted Date:4/26/2012
McClellan Ranch Master Plan Project Update
You are invited to attend the Cupertino City Council meeting on May 1, 2012,at 7:00 pm in the
Community Hall at 10350 Torre Avenue in Cupertino.The City Council will consider approval of the
McClellan Ranch Master Plan 2012 Update. The City Council will also consider formally changing the
names of McClellan Ranch Park and the Simms property to"McClellan Ranch Preserve" and
"McClellan Ranch West"respectively.Your comments are welcome at this meeting.You may view the
staff report and the associated documents on the City's website at the following link:City Council
Meeting Agenda
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Letter from Doug Cheeseman:
Dear Members of the Cupertino City Council,
I have heard rumors that there is talk of changing the wonderful McClellan Ranch property by
including a "historical village". I believe this would be a huge mistake.
I have been involved going back to the 1970's when Nancy Hertert brought to the City Council the
idea of setting McClellan Ranch aside to be used as a preserve and a garden for Cupertino citizens.
Also it was suggested that a nature program be carried out at McClellan with a small museum and
that Santa Clara Valley Audubon should use the facility as its home.Also horseback riding was to
continue to McClellan Ranch.The area was to be used by the community in a state of multiple use.
The stream and native trees make McClellan a very lovely area for students from the local elementary
schools, Monte Vista H.S. and De Anza College to study. Students like Stevens Creek as a preserve
and not as a historical village. If we want to stimulate students to go into science,then we need local
reserves where they can observe nature at work and learn some ecology. Too many people have no
education in the field of ecology,due to not having any ecological science classes when growing up.
With all the environmental problems confronting the earth today people need to be educated in this
field of science. These natural reserves are the way to get students interested. The stream
restoration project at Blackberry Farm was well done, but please do not ruin the natural areas at
McClellan Ranch.
McClellan is a wonderful park and multiple use area and it should not be rededicated,certainly not to
be used as a historical village with houses put where the grassy meadows now are thriving so well
and the stream runs through the riparian area. I think it would be a terrible crime to change
McClellan into an area similar to Kelly Park in San Jose.
Please help the community of Cupertino continue to use McClellan as a nature preserve that has a
garden,small natural history museum that is used by an active entomology group(The Bug Club)and
Santa Clara Valley Audubon.Santa Clara Valley Audubon is very active in the community and will be
very opposed to putting into either of the two preserves a historical village.
I was at the opening of De Anza College in 1967 and have always enjoyed visiting McClellan Ranch
with my students. McClellan Ranch had an important impact on all my student over the years. I
taught biology majors until I retired in 1998 and produced a lot of great biologists,doctors,dentists
and other professions in the biological sciences. We must preserve our natural areas that have a
natural use if only for the benefit of students who need natural areas to understand how nature
works.
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I have also heard that there are alternative places for Cupertino to have a historical village.
I am copying this to Julie Phillips who is head of the Environmental Studies Dept at De Anza College.
I'm sure she has students who would be happy to tell you that they like the preserve as it is. Also
there is a club at Monte Vista HS of students who are very interested in nature and are concerned
about the future of our native environment,so they would be happy to tell you how much they enjoy
McClellan Ranch Preserve and McClellan Ranch West as it is now.
Please include this letter in the minutes of the meeting for tomorrow night, May 2,as I am unable to
attend this meeting.
Thank you, Doug Cheeseman
Professor Emeritus
De Anza College.
McClellan Ranch Preserve Master Plan Update
By Deborah Jamison
Ordinance 710, 1976 McClellan Ranch Nature and Rural Preserve Mission: To maintain and
protect the ecology of the area, conserve the natural features and scenic values, expand
community awareness and understanding of natural history and the environment, and provide
enjoyment of the resources present consistent with their preservation.
The City of Cupertino is in the process of updating its 1993 McClellan Ranch Master Plan.
Most of the recommended goals of the 1993 plan were never achieved - restoration of the
creek and creekside habitat, renovation of ranch buildings for public program use, building a
larger environmental education center, and providing a sheltered outdoor gathering area.
Recently, the Parks and Recreation Commission held a series of study sessions to gather
public input from which they developed a prioritized list of recommended projects for
consideration by the City Council.
At the Council's April 3rd meeting, the possibility of moving a number of other historic
buildings into McClellan Ranch Nature and Rural Preserve was for the first time raised. After
much discussion of the definition of"preserve" and how limiting that was, the Council adopted
by a"straw vote" a re-prioritized list of recommended projects to be brought before the city
budget hearings later this spring. The Council asked staff to proceed with a new master plan
process that includes all city properties along Stevens Creek for the purpose of evaluating the
possibility of moving various historic buildings and creating a historical park somewhere along
the creek.
The Council did approve by a"straw vote"the Commission's recommendation to change the
official name of McClellan Ranch Park to McClellan Ranch Preserve, and Simms Addition to
McClellan Ranch West.
For more information, please contact Deborah Jamison at woodduck(ct�,stevenscreek.com. To
be placed on the city's email list for notifications, please go
to: http://www.cupertino.orq/index.aspx?page=480 , fill out the eNotification Signup form and
check off McClellan Ranch/Simms Master Plan and Stevens Creek Corridor- Phase II.
Joanne McFarlin,Senior Ecologist
Acterra Stewardship/SPCWC
3921 Bayshore Road,Palo Alto 94303
408-857-6781
joannem aC�.acterra.orq
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Grace Schmidt
From: AnneNg @aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 4:12 PM
To: City Council
Cc: Gail Seeds; Timm Borden; Mark Linder
Subject: item 23: mcclellan ranch
Honorable Councilmembers:
Sorry I can't make it to your meeting tomorrow. I was distressed to see agenda item 23 about McClellan Ranch, which
looked identical to one from a month ago. I thought it was all settled. I didn't realize those were"straw votes". I endorsed
the item then, and I endorse it again.
Please do rename McClellan Ranch from Park to Preserve. The appropriate rules are already in place, so it won't change
anything except perhaps attitude. And if those rules are not yet in place for the former Simms property, I hope you will
soon accomplish the rezoning and simply expand McClellan Ranch Preserve, with its rules, across the creek. I'm not
sure a separate name is necessary, but McClellan Ranch West will do.
McClellan Ranch multitasks quite effectively, I think, as the designation Nature and Rural Preserve indicates. The ranch
buildings and 4-H facility and community garden coexist nicely with the nature preserve and the multi-use trail. But surely
the nature preserve was intended to include the meadow as well as the narrow strip of riparian corridor. I think it's
inappropriate to relocate other historic buildings to the meadow, which I assume is a floodplain, anyway. Finding a good
place for the proposed education center will be challenge enough.
Anne Ng
6031 Bollinger Road
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Grace Schmidt
From: Deborah Jamison [woodduck @stevenscreek.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 12:37 PM
To: Mark Santoro; Orrin Mahoney; Gilbert Wong; Barry Chang; Rod Sinks; City Council
Cc: Mark Linder; Barbara Banfield; Timm Borden; Gail Seeds
Subject: Message for Tuesday
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From: Karen B. Guerin
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 4:46 PM
To: Kirsten Squarcia
Subject: FW: Big mistake to include"historical village" at McClellan Ranch
From: Doug Cheeseman [mailto:doug@ cheesemans.com]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 4:15 PM
To: Mark Santoro; Orrin Mahoney; Gilbert Wong; Barry Chang; Rod Sinks
Cc: JULIE Phillips
Subject: Re: Big mistake to include "historical village" at McClellan Ranch
Dear Members of the Cupertino City Council,
I have heard rumors that there is talk of changing the wonderful McClellan Ranch property by including a
"historical village". I believe this would be a huge mistake.
I have been involved going back to the 1970's when Nancy Hertert brought to the City Council the idea of
setting McClellan Ranch aside to be used as a preserve and a garden for Cupertino citizens. Also it was
suggested that a nature program be carried out at McClellan with a small museum and that Santa Clara Valley
Audubon should use the facility as its home. Also horseback riding was to continue to McClellan Ranch. The
area was to be used by the community in a state of multiple use.
The stream and native trees make McClellan a very lovely area for students from the local elementary schools,
Monte Vista H.S. and De Anza College to study. Students like Stevens Creek as a preserve and not as a
historical village. If we want to stimulate students to go into science, then we need local reserves where they
can observe nature at work and learn some ecology. Too many people have no education in the field of
ecology, due to not having any ecological science classes when growing up. With all the environmental
problems confronting the earth today people need to be educated in this field of science. These natural reserves
are the way to get students interested. The stream restoration project at Blackberry Farm was well done, but
please do not ruin the natural areas at McClellan Ranch.
McClellan is a wonderful park and multiple use area and it should not be rededicated, certainly not to be used as
a historical village with houses put where the grassy meadows now are thriving so well and the stream runs
through the riparian area. I think it would be a terrible crime to change McClellan into an area similar to Kelly
Park in San Jose.
Please help the community of Cupertino continue to use McClellan as a nature preserve that has a garden, small
natural history museum that is used by an active entomology group (The Bug Club) and Santa Clara Valley
Audubon. Santa Clara Valley Audubon is very active in the community and will be very opposed to putting into
either of the two preserves a historical village.
I was at the opening of De Anza College in 1967 and have always enjoyed visiting McClellan Ranch with my
students. McClellan Ranch had an important impact on all my student over the years. I taught biology majors
until I retired in 1998 and produced a lot of great biologists, doctors, dentists and other professions in the
biological sciences. We must preserve our natural areas that have a natural use if only for the benefit of
students who need natural areas to understand how nature works.
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I have also heard that there are alternative places for Cupertino to have a historical village.
I am copying this to Julie Phillips who is head of the Environmental Studies Dept at De Anza College. I'm sure
she has students who would be happy to tell you that they like the preserve as it is. Also there is a club at
Monte Vista HS of students who are very interested in nature and are concerned about the future of our native
environment, so they would be happy to tell you how much they enjoy McClellan Ranch Preserve and
McClellan Ranch West as it is now.
Please include this letter in the minutes of the meeting for tomorrow night, May 2, as I am unable to attend this
meeting.
Thank you, Doug Cheeseman
Professor Emeritus
De Anza College.
Doug Cheeseman
Cheesemans' Ecology Safaris
20800 Kittredge Rd.
Saratoga, CA 95070 USA
1-800-527-5330
http://www.cheesemans.com
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I have also heard that there are alternative places for Cupertino to have a historical village.
I am copying this to Julie Phillips who is head of the Environmental Studies Dept at De Anza College. I'm sure
she has students who would be happy to tell you that they like the preserve as it is. Also there is a club at
Monte Vista HS of students who are very interested in nature and are concerned about the future of our native
environment, so they would be happy to tell you how much they enjoy McClellan Ranch Preserve and
McClellan Ranch West as it is now.
Please include this letter in the minutes of the meeting for tomorrow night, May 2, as I am unable to attend this
meeting.
Thank you, Doug Cheeseman
Professor Emeritus
De Anza College.
Doug Cheeseman
Cheesemans' Ecology Safaris
20800 Kittredge Rd.
Saratoga, CA 95070 USA
1-800-527-5330
http://www.cheesemans.com
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Kirsten Squarcia
From: Karen B. Guerin
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 10:51 AM
To: Kirsten Squarcia
Subject: Fwd: McClellan Ranch Master Plan
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Begin forwarded message:
From: Phil <phil @ambergrass.com>
Date: May 1, 2012 10:50:02 AM PDT
To: City Council <CityCouncil @cupertino.org>
Subject: McClellan Ranch Master Plan
Reply-To: "phil @ambergrass.com" <phil @ambergrass.com>
Dear Members of the Cupertino City Council,
McClellan Ranch and its present use as an open space area, community garden with a location
for students to participate in the 41-1 program is ideal and must be maintained. To add a
"historical village" will change the focus of the McClellan Ranch preserve and run the risk of
changing what we now have into an "amusement park." I have lived in the area since 1953, have
watched the McClellan Ranch change over the years and have been pleased with the manner in
which the city of Cupertino has managed the McClellan ranch and Blackberry Farm. I am deeply
concerned that changes to the present use will destroy a beautiful reserve that harkens back to an
earlier era and will be lost forever.
Phillip P. Pflager
22380 Palm Ave
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-252-9001
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Kirsten Squarcia
From: Karen B. Guerin
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 1:55 PM
To: Kirsten Squarcia
Subject: FW: regarding McClellan Ranch Preserve
From: Rhoda Fry [mailto:fryhouse@ earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 1:41 PM
To: City Council
Subject: regarding McClellan Ranch Preserve
regarding McClellan Ranch Preserve
Dear Council—
I think that naming McClellan Ranch Preserve is a brilliant idea.
The same name should be given to the area across the creek.
While McClellan Ranch has historic structures, I do not think it is a good idea to add more historic structures to the mix.
At first I thought, how nice. But then I did my homework and they're just not a good fit within the context of the master
plan and they wouldn't fit on the footprint very well either.Two barns would be really odd, don't you think?
Here's another thing I'd like you to consider—when moving old structures,they will likely need to be retrofitted to meet
ADA standards. In addition, there's a new EPA law that structures older than 1978 must be worked on in a lead-safe
manner—which can be VERY COSTLY(think bunny suits—no kidding).
For the nearly quarter century that I've been following happenings in Cupertino,ADA has frequently been a costly
afterthought.The very first remodel of the sports center required retrofits just after completion. We also did ADA work
at the community hall and there's been ongoing ADA work at Blackberry Farm (that likely wasn't rolled into the original
budget—we really need transparency on all these projects). Other retrofits,although not ADA included the fountains at
Quinlan and at Community Hall.
Please also consider the cost of maintaining any remodeled or new structure. Ongoing maintenance cost must be
included in the initial project scope.
Please let's fix what we have. Fix our streets. Has the seismic retrofit work been done to keep the City's valued
employees safe been done yet?
I can't go to council tonight—I'm a lousy public speaker anyway, I sound angry but really I just get nervous and choked
up.Justin has STAR testing this week so I need to make sure he gets to bed early.
In summary—YES to calling the whole area a PRESERVE. NO to moving old buildings in.
0 Rhoda Fry(a well-meaning concerned citizen)
Kirsten Squarcia
From: Karen B. Guerin
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 11:57 AM
To: Kirsten Squarcia
Subject: FW: McClellan Ranch
From: Lola Kashyap [mailto:lolakashyapgmail.com]
Sent:Tuesday, May 01, 2012 11:38 AM
To: City Council; Mark Linder
Subject: McClellan Ranch
Dear City Council members,
I am writing to express my concern for plans to change the focus of McClellan Ranch from a Preserve to more
of a Historical Park. Our family has lived in the area for 12 years and we have watched with delight the
restoration of Blackberry Farm and the lovely trail connecting it to McClellan Ranch. Opening access to the
area from Scenic Circle has been a bonus allowing residents of our neighborhood to walk and enjoy this jewel
in our midst. School children in the area use it to supplement their Biology/Environmental Science curriculum.
Organizations such as SPCWC and Audubon also use the facilities and provide us opportunities to learn more
about our ecosystem.
Please vote to preserve McClellan the way it is today without turning it into an "amusement park". The 4-H,
community garden, Science museum, Audubon store all are perfect as they are at present. McClellan Ranch is a
peaceful island in the midst of our high-tech city and we should leave it the way it is. It does not need
"improvements".
Thank you.
Lola Kashyap
22468 Palm Ave
Cupertino
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