113-12. Email from resident.pdfAkiHonda
From:
Kitty Moore [
Sent:
Friday, March 09, 2012 7:12 PM
To:
Aki Honda; City of Cupertino Planning Dept.
Subject:
Opposition to Main Street Project to add Apartments to Crowded CHS Area
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Greetings,
This really fumes me!
I have two students at Cupertino High School and oppose the addition of more housing units which would further impact
a crowded campus.
My freshman student is in a record size class of 500 students and the swell of students only increases as the grades get
lower, meaning the crowding will only get worse. Planners must get a look at the traffic, come by any morning from
7:20-7:45, try driving around and not hit a child. Then try Wednesday morning before and after gam. Bring a
policeman, because you will see traffic violation after traffic violation. At 3 pm you can then watch the Hyde Middle
School students skateboard and bike right down the middle of Shadygrove, with traffic head on. It's unbelievable. And
you want to add more to it?!
The driving congestion around Cupertino High School, Sedgwick Elementary School, and Hyde Middle School will only
get worse. Additional students hitting the crosswalk on Stevens Creek to Finch to get to Cupertino High School will bog
down traffic further. Parents of elementary and middle age students will not be walking to Sedgwick or Hyde past the
High School. Time and again these students are driven and the traffic problems with concurrent 7:30 am Hyde and CHS
start times on MTTHF and concurrent with Sedgwick at 9am on Wednesdays will be badly impacted.
Further, traffic leaving Cupertino High School heading north on Finch after school will be negatively impacted by
additional students hitting the crosswalk buttons.
While a traffic report has no doubt been signed off by a traffic engineer who is sympathetic to Sand Hill's desire to make
money, it is unlikely there is anything accurate in the report. I used to work for a regional planning commission, and for
a traffic engineer, and how data is collected, and how it is used and evaluated makes all the difference in the world for
what the outcome is.
To be blunt, a sight impaired simpleton can tell the traffic is already a nightmare surrounding these schools, with a
child's death from a traffic accident just one added car away from reality! Whoever did the original EIR, was either an
idiot or a cheat. I do realize that developers often rely on lazy citizens not speaking out, but the situation around
these schools in intolerable already. CHS does not need more on its' plate, we are crowded!
In closing, I am opposed to adding more housing to this area. If Sand Hill wants to impact our schools so they can make
a buck, let them add the new High School Physics Lab so AP Physics can be finally taught at CHS, provide the hugely
expensive instruments for the string orchestra, outfit the sports teams, match all of the CEEF funds form the campaign
to save teachers 3 years ago ... on and on. Degrading the quality of our student's education by crowding the schools and
traffic is a poor excuse for getting them richer.
Thank you,
Catherine Moore
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