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CC 07-03-2018 Oral CommunicationsCupertino Resident Survey Summary June 25, 2018 Concerns Total Water Traffic Schools H ou sin g Cupertino registered voters : 61.8 °/o 25.9% 69.9°/o 56.0 o/o 21 .0% Cupertino Non-registered: 15.0% 24.0% 65.3°/o 56.0% 3 7.3% Non-Cupertino: 23.2o/o 25.0% 75.0°/o 50.9°/o 2 5 .0% All Participants: 100°/o 25.4% 70.6 °/o 55.0°/o 2 5.6% Note: (1) Great many of the petitions are still circulated in the field . (2) No one wants more offices Retails 33 .0% 24 .0% 29.3% 3 0.8% cc 7 /3 Ir% O ~l-CDfYV'r- Other 3 .6% 1.3% 4 .3% 3.4% Reminder: Please help to record the data by uploading your signatures by using the tern late and then sending in the filled-in template. Template: ht s: --shari n The so-called alternative plans created by the consulting firm, Opticos, is a joke at best to come up with 22-story buildings at 294 feet high since the "resident input process," by and large, were held in mid-days when most residents were at work. Did the voters reject Measure D's 7-story, 130 feet buildings in 2016? Yes, we surely did! It was done by design. And, the city staff in charge of these meeting failed to get participants to sign in and leave contact information to verify the participants to be city residents, not out-of-towners, city or school officials and those working for or affiliated with the developers. Most Cupertino residents are not aware of what's going on. The cityplanning department is pulling a fast one over the community and residents. "Friends of Better Cupertino" is a grassroots group of citizens. We have filed a petition with the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, and the lawsuit is now pending between "Friends of Better Cupertino" and the City of Cupertino. Anyone, interested to learn about the case, may access these documents directly at: https :// calif ornia. tylerhost.net/View Documents.aspx?F1D=bec81d8d-b095-47 55-9cd0-09d63 b53 725c Please note that this is a "Mandamus Petition." ... Among other things, this court petition details why the proposed "Vallco Site" development project is NOT eligible for SB35 benefits because i. it does not offer 2/3 residential square footage; and ii. the site is listed on the statewide hazardous waste site list Also, as noted on p. 22 of the document, the Vallco project does not comply with the General Plan in that some of the proposed buildings off er no first-floor commercial facilities. Numerous other eligibility issues ar e discussed in detail in Exhibits 5, 6 and 7 . Under the SB35 statute, the entire application fails if any one of the eligibility criteria is no t satisfied. W e demand the city to do its due diligence!! I n short ... By filing the "writ of mandamus petition" before the legal 90 day deadline in conjunction w ith City's fi ling of its formal response, i.e. "the eligi b ility letter for the Vall co Town Center SB 35 Application," t h e "Friends of Better Cupertino" has, in turn, preserved it s right t o ch alle n ge the substantive aspects of the City 's "eligibil it y a p proval " of the application. Filing this Petition has become necessary all because either the city staff, including the acting city manager and the planning staff, are completely incompetent or unconscionably colluding with the developer, or both to fail performing their legally required duty to ascertain the applicant of the Vallco project to fully comply with the state laws, including in particular the SB35 that developer is trying to take advantage of. A majority of the council members has repeatedly obstructed the effort to remove the provisional 2 million square feet of office space allocation at the Vall co site. Cupertino residents should know --it might not get any better next year if the 2018 candidates who have worked to help Sand Hill in the past get elected or re-elected, namely Orrin Mahoney, Hung Wei and Savita Vaidhyanathan. Voters Be Aware!!