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CC Exhibit 06-02-2015 Item No. 1 Study Session on Santa Clara County Potential Transportation Tax Measure for 2016-Envision SIlicon Valley cC / It Grace Schmidt From: Xiaowen Wang <xiaowenw@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday,June 02, 2015 11:24 AM To: City Council; City Clerk; City Attorney's Office; David Brandt; City of Cupertino Planning Dept.; Rebecca Tolentino;Aarti Shrivastava Subject: Letter from California Department of Transportation: highway traffic mitigation Attachments: CDT letter.pdf Dear city councils, Please find the attached letter from California Department of Transportation regarding the city's General Plan Amendment and potential development. In this letter, it stresses that the city is responsible to mitigate the traffic impact on state high way, including sharing the cost of any improvement of state high way. The letter also urges city to allocate the job, housing and services around transit center. It is also suggested that a traffic impact fee collected and other funding should be correlated to the pace of development. I hope that we have these concerns in mind with city's development projects and provides adequate mitigation measure also for high way traffic. Please keep this correspondence to the public record of today's VTA study session and council meeting. Best, regards, Xiaowen Wang "�' JFHIBIT EX i STATE OF CALIFORNIA—CALIFORNIA STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCY EDMUND G BROWN Jr Governor DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION A 111 GRAND AVENUE OAKLAND,CA 94612 PHONE (510)286-6053 FAX (510)286-5559 Flexyoin-power! TTY 771 Be energy efficientl April 3,2014 SCLGEN114 SCL/GEN/VAR SCH#2014032007 Mr. George Schroeder Planning Division City of Cupertino 1030.0 Torre Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014-3202 Dear Mr. Schroeder: Cupertino General Plan Amendment,Housing Element Update, and Associated rezoning Project—Notice of Preparation (NOP) Thank you for including the California Department of Transportation(Caltrans)in the environmental review process for the project referenced above. We have reviewed the NOP and have the following comments to offer: Traffic Impacts One of Caltrans' ongoing responsibilities is to collaborate with local agencies to avoid, eliminate, or reduce to insignificance potential adverse impacts by local development on State highways. State Route(SR) 85 and Interstate 280 are critical to regional and interregional traffic in the San Francisco Bay region. They are vital to commuting,freight, and recreational traffic and are two of the most congested regional facilities. The traffic generated and/or redistributed by the proposed housing element changes and rezoning,together with other completed and proposed projects in the vicinity, will have a cumulative significant regional impact to the already congested State Highway System. Lead Agency As the lead agency, the City of Cupertino (City) is responsible for all project mitigation, including any needed improvements to State highways. The project's fair share contribution,financing, scheduling, implementation responsibilities and lead agency monitoring should be fully discussed for all proposed mitigation measures.This information should also be presented in the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan of the environmental document. Vehicle Trip Reduction Caltrans encourages you to locate any needed housing,jobs and neighborhood services near major mass transit centers, with connecting streets configured to facilitate walking and biking, as a means of promoting mass transit use and reducing regional vehicle miles traveled and traffic impacts on the State highways. "Caltrans improves mobility across California" Mr. George Schroeder/City of Cupertino April 3, 2014 Page 2 We also encourage you to develop Travel Demand Management(TDM)policies to promote usage of nearby public transit lines and reduce vehicle trips on the State Highway System. These policies could include lower parking ratios, car-sharing programs, bicycle parking and showers for employees, and providing transit passes to residents and employees, among others. For information about parking ratios, see the Metropolitan Transportation Commission(MTC)report Reforming Parking Policies.to Support Smart Growth or visit the MTC parking webpage: http://www.mte.ca.gov/planning/smart—growth/p,wl<-ing. In addition, secondary impacts on pedestrians and bicyclists resulting fiom any traffic impact mitigation measures should be analyzed. The analysis should describe any pedestrian and bicycle mitigation measures and safety countermeasures that would in turn be needed as a means of maintaining and improving access to transit facilities and reducing vehicle grips and traffic impacts on State highways. Traffic Impact Fees Please identify traffic impact fees to be used for project mitigation. Development plans should require traffic impact fees based on projected traffic and/or based on associated cost estimates for public transportation facilities necessitated by development. Please refer to the California Office of Planning and Research's (OPR)2003 General Plan Guidelines, page 163,which can be accessed on- line at the following website:http://www.opr.ca.gov/index.php?a=planning/gpg.html. Scheduling and costs associated with planned improvements on State ROW should be listed, in addition to identifying viable funding sources correlated to the pace of improvements for roadway improvements, if any. Encroachment Permit Please be advised that any work or traffic control that encroaches onto the State ROW requires an encroachment permit that is issued by Caltrans. To apply, a completed encroachment permit application, environmental documentation, and.five (5) sets of plans clearly indicating State ROW must be submitted to the address below. David Salladay,District Office Chief, Office of Permits, California Department of Transportation, District 4,P.O. Box 23660, Oakland, CA 94623-0660. Traffic-related mitigation measures should be incorporated into the constiuction plans prior to the encroachment permit process. See the website linked below for more information: http://v,,ww.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/developserv/Permits. "Caltrans improves mobility across California" Mr. George Schroeder/City of Cupertino April 3, 2014 Page 3 Should you have any questions regarding this leiter,please contact Brian Brandert of my staff at (510)286-5505 or brian.brandert@dot.ca.gov. 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PERT lN�33 - ----------- City .City of Cupertino Study Session on Santa Clara County Potential Transportation Tax Measure for 2016 - Envision Silicon Valley •Staff Presentation on background Timm Borden 10 mins and Study Session goals Director of Public Works Current and Envisioned Transportation Planning in Santa Clara Valley • Transportation in the Valley Hon.Rod Diridon,Sr. 20 mins —A history and ideas for the future Emeritus Executive Director Mineta Transportation Institute • Envision Silicon Valley Nuria Fernandez 20 mins —Goals and Process General Manager/CEO Valley Transportation Authority • Past Transportation Measure Successes Carl Guardino 20 mins and the Potential 2016 Initiative CEO Silicon Valley Leadership Group Other Transportation Ideas • Leading Ideas on Transportation Planning Jeffrey Tumlin 20 mins Principal and Director of Strategy Nelson Nygaard Council Questions and Discussion 90 mins � 2 1 r 6/2/2015 t t ey Envision Silicon Va 1- Consideration of 2014 Ballot Measure • Discussed potential%%sales tax to generate^'$3.55 billion • Conceptual project list to include specific and general categories such as: •Silicon Valley Bart Extension •County Expressway System improvements •Street Maintenance •Caltrain • Freeway Interchange Improvements (inc.85/280) • Bike/Ped Improvements •Seniors/Disabled Improvements •Polling initially strong but when factoring in expected low voter turnout, chose to wait for 2016 election. 3 Envision Silicon-Valley "VTA has launched Envision Silicon Valley, a campaign aimed to engage community leaders in a visioning process to discuss current and future transportation needs,identify solutions and develop funding priorities." Goals of proposed projects for the potential measure will include: • Enhance safety • Provide congestion relief and improve transportation efficiency • Expand transportation choices and improve travel experience • Continue to promote quality transit for those who are transit dependent • Promote healthy communities and minimize environmental impacts • Improve system financial sustainability a 2 6/2/2015 ✓��_- = _ _........... Envision Silicon ValleyME a�zr�s �Ongofng dl@fa�ue vnth'to,rimumTy partners ardstad- ICers�� n� ate. v*.w O�ngen�g�alw)yg calk eo,�munky partners andStake7rofCets a• �ma.» ;m wm.r ,�iG .E.ar ., • �. u..,.oa m LxH d+ras SCa.¢-lznrp✓ M 1'• '.kC kr.4 riGa Mtt �•3+ ngyr[a Pea"s�,� avt �.W,>e3setApl.4a:i 5 3