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PRC 01.24.19 Item No. 1 Parks Master Plan - Written CommunicationsCUPERTINO's DRAFT PARKS RECREATION MASTER PLAN Public Input Received Via Electronic Comment Cards, to Jan. 24, 2019 What do you like about the Master Plan? What would you change or add to the Master Plan? Do you have any other comments? (Please be as specific as possible. Include page numbers if known.) Name (optional) Email (optional) 1 I like that the plan has considered adding more neighborhood accessible small parks that are family friendly and close to home. I also am glad that more water play has been recommended, since this is something I wanted to bring up as I notice there is no water play facilities in the public parks in Cupertino, and every summer we had to go to other cities for the kids. I would add having more shade in the play areas. I would also recommend more public schools' sports or play ground to open up for the neighbor after school hours. 1. I hope the city would exploit more ways to approach for public inputs, the current schedules for public meetings are generally not friendly to people like me who work full time, got little kids at home, with partner or myself had to work overtime quite frequently. In this age, an app can be more convenient for us to provide feedback in such public issues that we do care. 2. I live in eastern park of Cupertino, we don't have as many parks or trails per household. I'd hope to have more trails planned in the future so we can take a walk after dinner or on the week more conveniently. Lili lili.l.xu@gmai l.com 2 Not like it Add fund for some park at east side.Don't waste city money to build art center. East side need park. Should be more urgent. Dongming yao 3 I don’t like this plan Add a park @east Cupertino We don’t need performing arts center in Cupertino , there is a Flinter center already 4 Don’t like it at all. I was totally shocked by the ridiculous master plan, especially that it claimed to spend two years and with resident outreach but still manage to resemble nothing close to the real need of the residents. It is fishy who was behind the master plan, but one thing is for sure, it is definitely not pro-resident. We don’t need performing arts center. We need parks!!! Master plan should be redone to include more parks and no performing arts center. 5 I don’t like the plan at all. This plan does not represent residents need at all. We need parks!!! Spending 100M on performing arts center is totally ridiculous. No performing arts center. More spending on parks.The master plan redone all over. 6 Not sure I can use "like" for a 20yr master plan which will change the city I live, but I did know anything about it until this week Do we need to spend $100m out of the total $204m budget 9n a performance art center?! Does every resident know about it? I for one strongly oppose to this project Remove project "performing art center" from page 104, cause I don't believe we have been well informed in this big budget spending ahead of time 7 Remove the performing art center at Vallco. It is not only costly, but also not necessary. We can use Flint Center. Add parks on the east side of Cupertino. What do you like about the Master Plan? What would you change or add to the Master Plan? Do you have any other comments? (Please be as specific as possible. Include page numbers if known.) Name (optional) Email (optional) 8 I like the part that we need to build more parks on the east side of the city- but I’m very shocking to see that among the 200M budget, 100M is devoted to a performing art center- why performing art center is consider as park, as it’s not going to be accessible every day for citizens , for two why we need a new performer art center where we already have two under utilized performance center at de Anza college already. And why another 60M for a swimming pool- how many people will use that pool? We need more park space on the east side of the city. Please add specificllly the budget that city plan to help build more park on the east side of the city . Qin Pan Qinpan@gm ail.com 9 A lot of work and public input was put into it! I love the preservation of our ecology and natural assets. I would add our historic markers into our master plan...the Native American habitats, DeAnza’s encampment and the early settlers influence I would add an historic element. So much history occurred along Stevens Creek...The Ohlone’s DeAnza encampment, Elisha Stephen’s settlement. Historic markers can memorialize Cupertino history Goals and vision should add the importance of our unique history! Donna Austin Primadona1 @comcast.ne t 10 I like that you are doing a Master Plan. And, I like that you are asking residents what we residents think should happen at our parks. I would like to see our parks without organized outside groups using them for organized soccer leagues and outside baseball groups renting them. I feel our parks should be available to our residents all the time. There is little enough space for kids to just run and play in open spaces, and to have "dis"organized groups playing volleyball, soft ball, or just running on our open green space, Yes I do: We are so fortunate, as a community, to have open green space. Let's keep it "open" to all our residents, and not just to organized groups. Ruby Elbogen rgelbogen@a ol.com 11 None. The fact that you are putting more money into a cricket field (>$5M) and Dog park (>$600K) than the sorely needed lighted basketball field (>$250K??) Not enough emphasis on having more basketball courts in the city. Most of the parks (eg. Jollyman) have excess grass area but only allocated a half sized basketball court at the moment and even those courts are neglected (surface cracked, etc). To get kids to go out and be more active especially in the winter time, create more "lighted" basketball court area. Out parks are pretty much "dead zone" after 5pm, consider looking at how some southern California towns have done in upgrading their parks so they are still pretty much utilized extensively even after 7-8pm by kids, young adults, etc. Again, number of basketball courts in the city of this size is laughable. The best court right now is not in Cupertino but in West San Jose (Calabazas Park). Andy Teoh kateoh@sbcg lobal.net Page 2 of 4 What do you like about the Master Plan? What would you change or add to the Master Plan? Do you have any other comments? (Please be as specific as possible. Include page numbers if known.) Name (optional) Email (optional) 12 performing arts center, aquatics add park land on north-east side of city. consider a junior museum/zoo like in palo alto. de-prioritize jollyman park, stevens creek corridor senior center and sports center are good enough today 13 The park space is very limited around the city. Are there plans to acquire additional land to expand parks in residential neighborhoods? The current park space in the Monta Vista area, and Memorial Park is difficult to get to, especially with traffic, from other parts of the city. Blackberry Farm Park should be open year round. 14 I like the idea of increased trail connections and bike connections to the parks. Parks are getting more overburdened. We need more parks and especially parks with trees around the outside perimeter. There are more and more units being built and more people in each park. This is making the parks less desirable and off-leash dogs are taking up large sections of the parks even though it is posted "all dogs must be on-leash". Parks are getting overcrowded as residents per unit park area increases. Also, the average size of homes lot is decreasing significantly. In 2013, the average size of lot per home sold was 11,000 ft^2. But in 2018 the average size of hot per home sold was 9,000 ft^2. This is almost a 20% drop in 5 years. Homes are becoming more and more cramped and parks are too. Homes are becoming more like prisons and this is ruining the feel of Cupertino. If we stay on this trend, within 30 years, the average lot size per home sold will be 2400 ft^2. This is approaching prison-like conditions. No one would want to live in such a city. San Francisco is a mess. I don't want that crime, crowd, traffic, or stench. That is why I AM in Cupertino and not San Francisco. I will fight with the City, the State, the money- grubbing developers and whoever else wants to ruin the existing city in this way. Thanks for asking my sincere opinion. Randal Salvatore rsalvatore@i nfinera.com 15 Not much Should be more accessible to the illiterate 16 I didn't read it Portals Portal park doesn't live up to its name. 17 Please spend park funds on parks. It is wrong for park funds to be spent on a duplication of the under utilized Flint center. I am very happy with Flint center. It can meet all of Cupertino’s needs. Cupertino needs more parks especially in east Cupertino. We have no need for another performing arts center. An arts center would be a misuse of precious funding. The residents of monta vista are fortunate to live amongst nature. Not so for east Cupertino. We who live east of miller live on crowded streets and in dire need of beautification and s serenity. Rancho Rinconada is the slum of Cupertino. A very expensive slum. Hanna Drive resident and parent Page 3 of 4 What do you like about the Master Plan? What would you change or add to the Master Plan? Do you have any other comments? (Please be as specific as possible. Include page numbers if known.) Name (optional) Email (optional) 18 I am very hopeful that lots of trails (bike, walking, paved/unpaved) will be built. We have fantastic weather and outdoor assets - we should do everything we can to encourage people to get out of cars and walk, bike, run, skate, stroll etc. Please please please figure out how to get access from West Stevens Creek into Rancho park. There was access before, and then it was all fenced off for the flooding project. Now there is no way to enter the park without going all the way around. Please figure out how to allow pedestrians and cyclists to get to Rancho via Stevens Creek Rama Polefka 19 Interest in expanding the number of parks throughout the city by purchasing the land is good for the city. Pg. 87 Aquatics Facility has listed Wilson Park as a Potential Location. This is a small park and should not be considered for aquatics. We need to keep the ball fields at this location. Pg. 82 Longer Term Selected Enhancement Opportunities. Must modify the statement "Connect via trails and bike lane network to Cupertino High, Wilson Park and Civic Center/Library" to specify that these are subject to city council approval of design and environmental impact review. 20 It must have taken much time to draft this detail plan. To attract many responses with comments on the draft, the draft wording is a long documents for initial responses. Shorter highlighted version can interest more Cupertino citizens Shorter highlighted version can interest more responses 21 Very Little.I'm disappointed with the utter lack of genuine community engagement. Get a broad outreach of different neighborhoods and age demographics. What is going on? Please be more transparent and have genuine community engagement. Have you taken into consideration the needs of park-starved East Cupertino? Please make another attempt because Cupertino Residents demand accountability from those that hold office and commission posts R Page 4 of 4