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Exhibit CC 06-21-2016 Oral CommunicationsTo: Cupertino Council, Mayor Barry Chang, and Manager David Brandt Date; June 5, 2016 From: Gary Latshaw Subject: Recommendation for a Resolution against Clear-cutting of Forests cc (1f :lt (l& D~L-Ccrvu'Y\ . I am recommending that the City pass a resolution on the banning of clear-cutting forests and send the resolution to our State Senator Jim Bealle, Assemblyperson Evan Lowe, and Governor Jerry Brown. While most efforts to combat climate change focus on reducing and eventually eliminating the emissions of greenhouse gases, it is necessary to encourage "the other side of the equation" -in vegetation preservation and expansion, which absorbs carbon dioxide. Maintaining mature trees are one of the most effective means to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The diagram below graphically demonstrates how nearly unrestrained destruction of our forests has left us with only a small fraction of the original forests. As a nation we have aggressively stolen from future generations. 1926 Distribution of Forests in Continental United States Nevertheless, harvesting forests for timber is currently an integral component of the developing our modern infrastructure. Many companies* profitably harvest forests in a manner that sustainably provides lumber and preserves the critical ecology of the forest with its myriad of insects, small animals, and foliage. Such methods are called selective logging in which a mixture of trees of different ages are harvested. This minimizes the disruption of the forest ecosystem and allows carbon contained in the soils to remain. Several local cities have passed clear-cutting resolutions. I have included examples from Menlo Park, San Francisco, and Brisbane. Other cities have also passed resolutions. I believe Cupertino should similarly pass a resolution. *Conservation Fund, Humboldt Redwood Company, Mendocino Redwood Company, Redwood Forest Foundation, Collins Pine, and Big Creek Lumber ce & !~1 Ir~ GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT, HOUSING ELEMENT UPDATE. AND ASSOCIATED REZONING DRAFT EIR 0 rz,11-L ------------------·-··-·-----·-·-------C:..ITY OF CUPERTl.!'1...£ CD~ PROJECT DESCRIPTION ·' TA8LE3-2 SUMMARY-ALL PROJECT COMPONENTS DEVELOPMENT ALLOCATIONS -------------~-~··~· ~~"~' fl!(Vldvl.,, ej q '.... ~. \ '·· \. _ ~~·~~1 ~f._ --,,1 4,040,231 sf \-+ 3,500,000 sf \- 701,413 sf i 1,3436 7 9sf \ +642,266sfc I 1339mo""· / 1,33' '°""" \ . .+ 1,000 mom' J \ 1,895 units / 4,421 units \ + 2,526 units / . ~:.=:.:..:=::;:/,:_ . --· '~::;/ Built I Approved Office 8,929,774sf Total Commercial 3, 729,569 sf Hotel 1,090 rooms Residential 21,399 units Note: sf= square feet a. Includes Homestead, North Vallco Park, Heart of the City, North De Anza, and South De Anza Major rvrixed-Use Special Areas. b. Includes Bubb Road Mixed-Use Special Area, Manta Vista Village, Other Commercial/Mixed-Use Special Areas, Other Neighborhoods, Major Employers Category, and Housing Element Sites. c. Net new commercial is not proposed. This number assumes that the existing Vallco Shopping Mall square footage (1,267,601 sf) will be demolished and will go back into the City-wide commercial allocation pool. A total of 625,335 sf would be reserved for a future project in the Vallco district Source: City of Cupertino, 2014. Under Section 15064(d) of the CEQA Guidelines, "In evaluating the significance of the environmental effect of a project, the Lead Agency shall consider direct physical changes in the environment which may be caused by the project and reasonably foreseeable indirect physical changes in the environment which may be caused by the project."The buildout projections represent the City's projection of"reasonably foreseeable" development that could occur over the next 26 years under the General Plan and are used as the basis for the EIR's environmental assessment. As described above in Section 3 .1, Background, the City allocates development potential to project applicants on a project-by-project basis. As part of the proposed Project, additional building height and residential density increases would be contingent upon future development projects in Cupertino providing community benefits. While the proposed Project is a General Plan and no specific projects are currently proposed, it is important to analyze the impacts of the proposed building height and dwelling unit's density increases that could occur during the 26-year buildout horizon. Therefore, unlike a project EIR this document is a Program-EIR. Consistent with CEQA, all future projects proposed under the newly adopted General Plan, other than those that qualify for an exemption, would have to undergo project-level environmental review to ensure that any project-level impacts of the future project proposed on specific sites are disclosed and mitigated, if feasible. General Plan Policy 2-23.A, Community Benefits Program, states that at the discretion of the City Council and as indicated in certain land use policies, the City Council may approve heights different from the maximum base height standard in Gateways and Nodes identified in the Special Areas l\fap, if a project includes a retail component and provides community benefits. 3-13 GE~ E ~.A. i.. P ;_A 1'-1 Ai\/: E ·\;. D ;V!:: ".;. T """. 0 ~ S ~ G EL!:.\/!. E ~ .'. J? 0 A IE A~~ ·"SSC C: .A.TE :J ~ ~ Z :J !\J· ~ G C ~.A. ~T t ~ C 1 TY o~ cuP=~7'.010 TRANS!P·ORTA'J'i'O!N AND TiRAfflC TP1iBLE 4.13-14 ,.!\\i'lEf!AGiE D?},!!0rTR.AFF'.C ON SEtfa .. ; E;J ROAD'NAV SEGMENTS UNDER ThE PROPOSiED i?RO..\ECT ....... -·-······-··-·-···--·-···--· .. -l*oi&~~---·~ .. ~~~·-·;:-~~ t A··1~AYTT :~~~-~·:;;;i~~.~~,-;~l~~ 2040 Forec2£d Vol!i.lme ······-· ··- fasj~r:g ii.lo ?roiOcsed -~<mL"in"d J.l _____ ·-··-------C.0c2o!i_O_i2 _____ .. ___________________ _!;_DT -··--__ ?mject,____________ P'Joject ___ _ :::5 :s :7 18 19 21 22 23 24 33 Ho:-r.tes~ead ~d. east cf De Anza ai·Ja. S!anev· Ave. nortr :Jf S-zeve::s C:--eek 3:v::L Steve:is c~ee!< 31vd. east of Bia.:;ey .A·ve. ~-k::~estead Rd. east cf Blaney· .A.ve. M·ll~er P..ve. scuth of s:ever.s Cree1< 31vd. Woi:'e Rd. 'lort:O of Va!lco Pkwy. \No;fe Rd. soLlth of ;-Jom.estead" ~d. Wolfe R.d. north of Homestead Rd. Vaiico Parkway east ::;f Woife Rd. Hornes~ead Rci. east of Woife Rd. dome~ead Rd. vves~. ::;f Steil:ng R.d. 42,453 42.245 15,877 30,779 24.875 6,294 30.348 22,895 17,379 34,200 31,751 18,825 2,917 10_.481 16,990 :;3 22: 47 833 2D.2J2 4:!..8J3 35 07: 8,577 42,549 32.807 25,621 45,.606 4:!. .. 555 31,744 3,947 2:C,455 22,541 5' OC4 47 528 2:.434 45177 36,793 48.125 34,725 38.251 52,242. d.2.935 33.255 17,41.6 'Jen free1~cay seg;:m:ents were selected: fm analysis wl:der 2'040 conditions. f!!.s described iI1 Section+. 13:. 5. l. filT·tte1isecrio111 bpact CJT:ir'ce:ri:a:~ the ad!diti0n. of p:roj,ect traffic causes a· nraJfi.c filirlpact om ai C j~fP fireevtza:y seg!illreml!: -tii:l-1~ten: The !LOS of tr..he free,;r.;a:r segment :Ls tOS F 1iillder exiist:illg com.ditiions, and lfl~e ;1ni...mbeJr 0£ new trips ad'ded by· th:e p:roj.ect is more than 0r:1'e peircent of the free""20' capac~t;-:. lfalhfe 4-. 11-1:;: Diiesents the d!ailv capacitv of both the mi.'l:ed-flo,N vanes and -d1e Hign Occu:;pancoJ Yd'llde lJ , -" .._ L " (H0·1F)r fat1J1es 01'1 each o:f the stu:dy Eree"V\~ay ~e5l111J'en1ts. Sin<:::e da;i1y t01S is not a;vailable for f.ce·e\a;'."a:y segm·entsq t!Jlli~ 1o~~-est o.F tfue t\.\'~O lPeOJk-h01~ i 05· levels j as teposted in· ;~TT~~ 's 20: 1 Z CY,i~p-)10njjto~rmg 3'rr!i1~!, is a.1'so sh0w.:-1'1. (:;y:J ?(J If ...... "'"' fl 1/~14 ie ~:?. r r;,,# (,~ -J:::'.,.;;,,-~ final: Apple Campus 2 Draft Transportation Impact Analysis Prepared by: mage Source: Foster+ Partners Apple Campus 2-Planned Dew~lopment rerm1t Submittal November .?.I, 2012 fEHRtPEERS 160 West Santa Clara Street Suite675 San Jose, CA 95113 (408) 278-1700 May31,2013 /)tr/(. 1ly 6 Jll 2 o "tJ € .IJlle 0a"" -./'" ' ~a<'"' { D. \fi r V-1> Lt\ c I <IP T, '14' CC4le:s A I rr JI' ff' e c. 2. erve ~ Uomr(/JW5 2 ""''i6jjl©JJ"'-· Mm)'3Jl,,2m3 . ._, ·:,1,;,o:~;.~:-.:11./;JJ'i('t<i~l';,I::Jl<;~~I TABLE 8 TRIP GENERATION -APPLE CAMPUS 2 Daily AM Peak Hour PM Peak Hour Land Use Employees I Rate1 J Trips I Rate1 J In J Out J Total I Rate1 J J l 1 1 In I Out Total Proposed Apple Campus 22 14,200 Exis\iDg_l,l;>'-~.:. ... _~.L ... 4,844 'i'· N;;t New V~hki;:;-;i~;s ... ·- 3.59 50,978 0.32 .. }:2.§JJ!.~&I;ll; ... 0.26 "" -·~-35,lOf , ,!- N~t'es;.,. ____ ~=~":-:.-~,~~,.~~t:~~· .. ·-:.-:.""';-~;~-~~ 1. Rate per employee 3,953 (1,063) 2;89() 591 4,544 0.33 1,031 3,655 4,686 (207) (1,270) 0.38 (235) (1,352) (1,587) 384.'. 3;274. •796·. ·'2,303· "3;099 2. Trip generation estimates for the proposed campus were developed based on trip rates derived from surveys at Infinite Loop campus and office south of Mariani Avenue by Fehr & Peers, May 2011 3. Trip generation estimates for the existing site were developed based on project site driveway counts conducted in August 2011 and factored up to estimate May 2011 values. 14. Daily trips estimated based on AM and PM peak hour trips representing 18 percent of daily trips. 5. Net New Vehicle Trips = Proposed Apple Campus 2 trips minus trips from existing uses. Source: Apple Headquarters Campus Transportation Study, Fehr & Peers, July 2011,. DIVERTED TRIPS DUE TO PRUNERIDGE CLOSURE With the closure of Pruneridge Avenue, vehicles currently traveling on the roadway between Wolfe Road and Tantau Avenue would have to detour around the project site. The detour path along Wolfe Road, Homestead Road and Tantau Avenue is approximately 1.1 miles in length and represents a 0.6-mile detour (1.1 mile new path minus 0.5 mile existing path). There are generally three types of trips that would be diverted with the proposed closure: Through trips with no destination on Pruneridge Avenue between Wolfe Road and Tantau Avenue that would be diverted around the project site Trips accessing the project site that would be diverted to proposed new driveways on Wolfe Road and Tantau Avenue Trips associated with the Hampton Apartments. Only trips traveling to and from the east would need to be diverted since existing trips from the west would not be affected by the road closure To estimate the number of diverted vehicles for each of the three trip types, Fehr & Peers conducted origin and destination (OD) surveys' in August 2011 at the intersections of Wolfe Road/Pruneridge Avenue and Tantau Avenue/Pruneridge Avenue. Fehr & Peers also conducted counts at the Hamptons driveway in November 2011 to determine the trip generation and distribution characteristics of the apartment complex so that the apartment's trips to/from the east could be re-assigned. The OD survey results were used to 6 Origin-Destination surveys can be used to estimate the amount of through traffic in a particular area. They involve recording the license plates of vehicles at the entrances and exits and matching the plates to determine the number and percentage of vehicles traversing the aree. -'( ~D 6149 zue.le; £IJe ...,,... \ { I~,,. .Ji. vi'' bot T/1p U .fi vt II rt:A ft t/....,, 1'fofer fl yJyJ/{! c :z-t:r;e ~ Cim""fl1'!15 2 !Tm111rr•1p11m1mt#ifl il'rimy'31!.2!l»IB .~.:,,~.'·l~J;i;;.~ui.::~~iiff'•Stlwef9:ll!9!11rm used. The Institute of Transportation Engineers (!TE) recommends that local data for similar uses be used if possible (Trip Generation Manual, 2nd Edition) when undertaking transportation studies. o, 1 Apple-Specific Trip Generation Rates -., "'I ,., ,v1j!/ ~ In May 2011, Fehr & Peers collected trip generation data at Apple's Infinite Loop campus and office south of v~ vr Mariani Avenue. This was accomplished by conducting driveway counts at all seven driveways, which I '1 produced trip rates based on the number of daily trips, AM peak hour trips and PM peak hour trips per 1,000 square feet (s.f.) of building space and per employee. In May 2011, the Infinite Loop campus and office south of Mariani Avenue contained 4,199 employees and 1,165,967 s.f. of building space, yielding an employee density of 3.60 employees per 1,000 s.f. This density is lower than the proposed employee density for Apple , "l-'1 ~. ~ •(a-,;;pus2 (4.iS e~f!iglgy~~? 2er),_GOQ _ _s_JJJ Therefore trips rates based on employees were used in this analysis, f};?itather than building square footage, to ensure that potential impacts are not under-estimated. A detailed ~ memorandum outlining the data collected at the existing Apple campus and a comparison of the rates by employee and building space is included in Appendix G. Apple's trip generation rates are 3.59, 0.32, and 0.33 trips p·er employee for the daily, AM peak hour, and PM peak hour periods, respectively. These rate_5 include all vehicfes trips to the site, including those generated by visitors and delivefY trueks-·and Were-applied to the projected number of employees at the Apple Campus 2 to estimate the proposed project's trip generation. Net New Trips At buildout and full occupancy, Apple Campus 2 is proposed to have 14,200 employees on-site, compared to approximately 4,844 employees that work at the site today or the project site's existing employee capacity of 9,800. The analysis determines new trips by using the existing employee base, not the employee capacity if fully occupied today. To estimate net new trips for the project scenarios, Fehr & Peers subtracted the number of vehicle trips generated by the existing uses from the number of trips estimated for the 14,200 employees. Fehr & Peers collected driveway counts at the project site to determine the site's existing trip generation and applied the Apple-specific trip generation rates to estimate trip generation for the projected 14,200 employees. As shown in Table 8, the project is estimated to generate 35,106 net new daily vehicle trips, 3,274 net new AM peak hour trips (2,890 inbound and 384 outbound), and 3,099 net new PM peak hour trips (796 inbound and 2,303 outbound). Transportation Demond Management (TDM) Reductions The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is the congestion management agency for Santa Clara County. In VT A's Transportation Impact Ana(ysis Guidelines (updated March 2009), reductions in the number of trips generated by a project can be made for qualifying TDM programs. The trip generation rates used in this study account for e!xisting TDM program participation and the resulting mode split of approximately 28 percent of employees using shuttles, carpooling, bicycling, and walking to work. Although Apple is proposing to expand its current TDM program to reduce the number of single vehicle occupancy trips, the specifics of the added elements are currently under development therefore this analysis does not include additional vehicles trip reductions due to the proposed TDM program expansion. i·~.:fr:,~:~~~~~~~~!~~~i~t.~'~