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Cyrah Caburian
From:City of Cupertino Written Correspondence
Subject:FW: Stop Deployment of Wireless during Quarantine
From: Morgan Borthwick <mborthwick11@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, April 3, 2020 3:04 PM
To: City Clerk <CityClerk@cupertino.org>
Subject: Stop Deployment of Wireless during Quarantine
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Dear Ms. Squarcia,
Dear Mayor & City Council Member,
We ask that you impose a moratorium on “small cells” and other wireless infrastructure permits process and deployment until the
COVID‐19 emergency is over.
The wireless providers are using the COVID‐19 emergency as cover to expand and cement their rapid and virtually unsupervised
deployment of harmful wireless infrastructure. Our local leaders should not have to dedicate time and resources to policing whether
the wireless companies are following local and state law, they have far more important things to do.
The FCC wireless permit rules allow emergency moratoria. Homeland Security guidelines emphasize that maintenance of existing
communications capability is the priority. New construction is not “essential.”
The COVID‐19 emergency has led to a government shut down of non‐essential activity. Hospitals, emergency response and local
officials are overwhelmed and they must be allowed to focus on what is indeed “essential”. Now is not the time to be dedicating
resources to expanding, rather than just maintaining, our networks.
The FCC has directly held a local jurisdiction can impose a temporary halt to deployment and permits during emergencies. In the
Matter of Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers, FCC 18‐111, 33 FCC Rcd 7705, 7784‐7785, ¶157
(2018) (“We recognize that there may be limited situations in the case of a natural disaster or other comparable emergency where
an express or de facto moratoria that violates section 253(a) may nonetheless be ‘necessary’ to ‘protect the public safety and
welfare’ or to ‘ensure the continued quality of telecommunications services.’”)
Homeland Security has declared that local government is on the forefront and can take control over determining whether to
temporarily halt all non‐essential activity. Homeland Security guidance documents prioritize maintenance of existing
Communications Systems, and do not support “essential” status for new construction. See Homeland Security Cybersecurity &
Infrastructure Security Agency, Identifying Critical Infrastructure During COVID‐19, https://www.cisa.gov/identifying‐critical‐
infrastructure‐during‐covid‐19 (local control); e‐Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Support Annex,
http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nrf/nrf‐support‐cikr.pdf (focus on “protection, response, recovery, and restoration”).
Homeland Security, like the FCC, understands that it is essential in an emergency situations justify focusing on protecting,
responding, recovering and restoring of existing systems, but new communications facilities construction is and should be deemed
nonessential, and subject to lockdown for so long as we are under emergency conditions.
Cities can and should impose a moratorium on deployment in their local area and freeze the permit process until the COVID‐19
emergency is over.
Sincerely,
Morgan Borthwick
10734 Martinwood Way
Cupertino, CA 95014
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Cyrah Caburian
From:Yu Ying <yu.ying06@gmail.com>
Sent:Monday, April 6, 2020 5:42 PM
To:City Clerk
Subject:opposing SJ city's proposal of prohibiting owners from collecting Rent
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Dear City Councilmembers,
Hope you are all well. It is a challenging time for everyone to fight against the COVID‐19 together. Yet we are astonished
to hear that the city is considering a proposal of prohibiting property owners from collecting rent.
We are strongly against this proposal because this ordinance is blatantly illegal. It violates state and federal law and is
likely unconstitutional.
COVID‐19 is changing everyone's life, home owners are not exempt from it. Our regular income is equally impacted due
to reduced working hours or lay‐offs. However, we are still obliged to pay mortgages on time. The monthly rent is an
essential source for us to meet the financial requirements for the mortgages, insurances and property taxes. There
aren't any ordinances to defer these payments, not even by a single month!!
As property owners, we understand the situation of tenants who are impacted by COVID‐19 similarly as we are. We are
working with our property management company to help the tenants out. For example, if the tenants lost their jobs due
to COVID‐19 and if they have been paying rents on time, we would consider their deferral request of rent payment given
legal evidence. We would also encourage tenants to seek financial support from government or charities. We could even
accept credit card rent payment and waive the transaction fee at our own cost.
This ordinance is basically forcing homeowners to sell the homes or foreclosure the homes, leaving the financial burden
to banks and driving the tenants out of their living places. This ordinance is not trying to help the society to overcome
the COVID‐19 crisis as a whole. It is separating the community and causing more chaos. Whoever that brought up this
proposal are not sincerely caring the people in COVID‐19 crisis. They are making noises to satisfy their own political
interests. We shall not let them take advantage of it.
We are strongly against this proposal.
Thank you for taking our voices seriously,
Yu
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Cyrah Caburian
From:City of Cupertino Written Correspondence
Subject:FW: San Jose Planning Project Sign Up on Shopping Center at Lawrence and Saratoga Ave
From: Jennifer Griffin <grenna5000@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 8:27 AM
To: City Clerk <CityClerk@cupertino.org>
Subject: Fw: San Jose Planning Project Sign Up on Shopping Center at Lawrence and Saratoga Ave
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Please kindly add this to the Public Record for the Cupertino City Council Meeting tonight, April 7, 2020. Thank you.
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Jennifer Griffin <grenna5000@yahoo.com>
To: CityCouncil@Cupertino.org <citycouncil@cupertino.org>
Cc: grenna5000@yahoo.com <grenna5000@yahoo.com>; CityClerk@Cupertino.org <cityclerk@cupertino.org>;
PlanningCommission@Cupertino.org <planningcommission@cupertino.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 08:22:09 AM PDT
Subject: San Jose Planning Project Sign Up on Shopping Center at Lawrence and Saratoga Ave
Dear City Council;
There is a San Jose Planning Project Sign up on a small strip mall in West San Jose that is adjacent to the Saratoga
border. This strip mall is at the corner of Lawrence Expressway and Saratoga Avenue directly across from the north
eastern end of El Paseo Shopping Center. The small mall lies at the northwest corner of the Lawrence and Saratoga
Avenue intersection.
The mall sits next to Westgate Church. The plans for this mall mirror the plans for El Paseo Shopping Center, ten stories
of residential. This residential tower will loom over the surrounding corner as nothing in that area is over two stories.
The view of the Saratoga Blue Hills will be destroyed. This is also the problem with the El Paseo Shopping Center plans,
ten stores of solid residential block in an area of two story residential.
The strip mall ten story housing block at Lawrence and Saratoga Avenue is also on the border of West San Jose and
Saratoga. This housing block will cause massive traffic problems in the area. Westgate West Mall and Westgate Mall are
major shopping venues for people from Saratoga, West San Jose, Cupertino, Campbell and other parts of San Jose
itself.
A ten story housing block at this small strip mall will cause many issues for the people who already live and shop and
travel in this area. The Lawrence Expressway and Saratoga Avenue intersection is a major corridor of travel for points
north, south, east and west. It is also a major access point for people traveling to Highway 85 in th south and Higway 280
in the north.
It looks like this ten story houing comstruction is at the San Jose Planning Department as the Housing Block Project Sign
was just erected at the Lawrence side of the strip mall.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Griffin
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Cyrah Caburian
From:Jennifer Griffin <grenna5000@yahoo.com>
Sent:Tuesday, April 7, 2020 8:50 AM
To:City Clerk
Subject:Fw: Cancelled Community Meeting In West San Jose
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Please kindly include this in the Public Record for the Tuesday, April 7, 2020
City Council meeting. Thank you.
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From: Jennifer Griffin <grenna5000@yahoo.com>
To: CityCouncil@Cupertino.org <citycouncil@cupertino.org>
Cc: grenna5000@yahoo.com <grenna5000@yahoo.com>; PlanningCommission@Cupertino.org
<planningcommission@cupertino.org>; CityClerk@Cupertino.org <cityclerk@cupertino.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 08:48:15 AM PDT
Subject: Cancelled Community Meeting In West San Jose
Dear City Council:
San Jose had to cancel a scheduled Community Meeting last
month (March, 2020) at Cypress Community Center due to the
pandemic. This meeting was supposed to be on Urban Villages
and was also a Scoping meeting for the public. One of the topics was
El Paseo and the El Paseo/West Gate/West Gate West Urban Village.
Issues brought up at this meeting would have been discussion about
El Paseo Shopping Center and the shopping areas around it.
It would be very good if the public in San Jose and West San Jose
could be kept abreast of any development proposed for this area
of the San Jose Urban Villages, especially the El Paseo/ West Gate Mall/
West Gate West Shopping area/Urban Village.
Many people in many cities depend on this Shopping Center/Retail
hub of El Paseo/West Gate/West Gate West for their retail an d
shopping and grocery necessities and they need to be kept updated
on anything that will compromise that critical shopping area as it is
used by people living in many communities and multiple cities.
It is hoped that San Jose will reschedule this Community meeting on
the issues in that area of West San Jose as soon as possible, especially
if building projects are being proposed and implemented in that area
before any replacement meeting can occur.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Griffin