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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 Forwarded message 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 ()ran1.!L 1 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. Begin forwarded message: From: SPCWC/Acterra <joannem @acterra.org> Date: May 1, 2012 8:40:33 AM PDT To: Cheri Donnelly <CheriD @cupertino.org> Subject: Tonight: Important Cupertino Council Meeting Reply-To: "joannem @acterra.org" <ioannem@acterra.org> Having trouble viewing this email? Click here 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 1 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. 2 ... .. s :� .. .... 1. 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 is 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. 2 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 3 Forward this email This email was sent to cheridt@cupertino.orq by joannem@acterra.orq Update Profile/Email Address Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribetM Privacy Policy. Acterra 3921 East Bayshore Rd. Palo Alto CA 94303 4 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 1 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 Attachments: photo.JPG; ATT00001.txt Read children's signs please. 1 P LI#v S 4 sr 0 ilt 4 "i � f� E � t ?t 3 t v'riF 'nt i`" 4 P fi N Yt f,, R'i y :' fit qr a tF fi X�t� a r� 9 �: k a p; . .4 ,. y 40101 ^.",, ,,„.7.,,k0.4.) .,,,,,;.,. ,: p 3 '.• i t d r y {n i ,y t $ e a Eyt itiik ...114A6,,,,.. - r. ) i.0."IN1 �,. C G 5-1/ //z Z 3 Kirsten Squarcia 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. 1 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 2 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 2 Kirsten Squarcia From: Karen B. Guerin Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 10:51 AM To: Kirsten Squarcia Subject: Fwd: McClellan Ranch Master Plan Sent from my iPad 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 1 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 1