CC 06-04-2018CUPERTINO APPROVED MINUTES
CUPERTINO CITY COUNCIL
Monday, June 4, 2018
SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING
At 4:02 p.m. Mayor Darcy Paul called the Special City Council meeting to order in the Cupertino
Community Hall Council Chamber, 10350 Torre Avenue and led the Pledge of Allegiance.
Present: Mayor Darcy Paul, Vice Mayor Rod Sinks, and Councilmembers Barry Chang, Steven
Scharf, and Savita Vaidhyanathan. Absent: None.
STUDY SESSION
1. Subject: Study Session regarding Vallco SpecificPlan
Recommended Action: Conduct study session regarding Valko Specific Plan
and provide direction to staff
Written communications for this item included emails and a letter to Council, and a
presentation.
Assistant City Manager and Director of Community Development Aarti Shrivastava
explained the format of the study session.
Senior Planner Catarina Kidd reviewed the staff report.
Daniel Parolek, Principal of Opticos Design, Inc., gave a presentation summarizing the
Charrette process.
Benjamin Sigman, Principal of Economic and Planning Systems, Inc. (EPS), continued
with the presentation regarding the program feasibility.
Patrick Siegman, Principal of Siegman & Associates, continued the presentation with a
summary of traffic reduction strategies.
The consultants and staff answered questions from Council. ,
Council recessed from 5:55 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Mayor Paul opened public comment and the following individuals spoke:
Jennifer Griffin
Deborah Jamison (Cupertino resident) on behalf of the Santa Clara County Audubon
Society
Ed Hirshfield (Cupertino resident)
Phyllis Dickstein (Cupertino resident)
Michael Newman (Sunnyvale resident)
Janet Van Zoeren (Cupertino resident) on behalf of Housing Choices Cupertino Task
Force
Jan Stokley on behalf of Housing Choices Cupertino Task Force
Geoff Paulsen (Cupertino resident)
Jason Uhlenkott (Sunnyvale resident)
John Stubblebine (Cupertino resident)
Randy Shingai (San Jose resident)
Liang Chao (Cupertino resident)
Lisa Warren (Cupertino resident)
Kitty Moore (Cupertino resident) (distributed written comments)
Nathan Ho (San Jose resident) on behalf of Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Pilar Lorenzana on behalf of SV @Home
Tracey Edwards (Cupertino resident) on behalf of the League of Women Voters
Max Kapczynski (Palo Alto resident)
Reed Moulds on behalf of Sand Hill Property
Mayor Paul closed public comment.
Recessed from 6:00 p .m . to 7:14 p .m.
Councilmember Barry Chang left the meeting at 7:17 p.m.
Council requested staff to follow-up on these items:
• Confirm maximum heights for the options of 2,640 and 3,250 residential units.
• Confirm the units allowed, the number of required below market rate units, and
those allowed by Density Bonus Law.
• Confirm 2,640 plus 1.5 mil sq. ft. office and 3,250 plus 750 sq. ft. office housing
options are by the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) or would require
recirculation and delay.
• Look into the provision of more than 15 % affordable housing requirements in the
development agreement including ELI (extremely-low income) units in addition
to low, very-low, median and moderate income units.
• Confirm BMR distribution requirements and the application of tax credits.
• Provide additional documentation based on Council's desired residential ranges.
• Consider performing arts theater as specialty use classification.
• Study federal tax credit subsidy potential for affordable housing concentrations.
Chang: add a percentage for ELI and all of the affordable housing income levels into the
development agreement.
Vaidhyanathan: supports going beyond 15% affordable housing and negotiating trade-offs for
40 extremely low income (ELI), moderate, and median income categories.
Paul: supports affordable housing advocates request for 40 units of ELI housing.
Sinks: carefully check federal tax credits for average median income (AMI) at 60% grouped
with low, very-low and ELI units.
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
Jennifer Griffin talked about senior housing in Cupertino and Santa Cruz, and the elderly
moving out of their homes.
ADJOURNMENT
At 8:43 p.m., Mayor Paul adjourned the meeting.
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