CC 09-20-2022 Study Session Item No. 1. SB 9_Written CommunicationsFrom:Jennifer Griffin
To:City of Cupertino Planning Commission; City Clerk
Cc:grenna5000@yahoo.com
Subject:Fw: :SB 9 Splits and Issues for Home Owners and Neighborhoods. City Council Stdsy Session (9/20/22)
Date:Tuesday, September 20, 2022 1:51:42 PM
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FYI. Please add this to the public record for the Cupertino City Council Study
Session on SB 9 on 9/20/22. Thank you.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 01:48:56 PM PDT
Subject: :SB 9 Splits and Issues for Home Owners and Neighborhoods. City Council Stdsy Session
(9/20/22)
Dear City Council:
The Study Session for the City Council meeting on September 20, 2022
agenda is addressing potential lots splits on single family lots in
Cupertino.
SB 9 is an illegal law in the beginning because no one was allowed
to vote on the law and it is directly affecting people who were not
allowed to vote on it, people who inhabit single family lots in
neighborhoods in Cupertino.
It is like we were some one"s captive vassals and we have no
rights. This is not how democracy works in this state and under
no circumstances in this country.
Again, wasn't the Revolutionary War about local control? Some
group who thinks they rule California it trying to take away local control
and impose laws upon the public that they were never asked to or
allowed to vote on.
This group who thinks they run California was never voted into office
by anyone. Yet, they have the audacity to tell the public they have to
allow their neighborhoods and lands to be cut up "by right" and
"minsiterially" without the public being able to say anything or vote
on anything.
This is the biggest farce of the century. This is the biggest scandal
since Tea Pot Dome. This is the equivalent to the attempted taking of
the Capitol on January 6.
This farce is also being carried out in Oregon and Washington State
and other states in the Union.
Will they get to Washington DC to carry out this play of farce across
the nation. I sure hope not. The people of California and
their cities have been vilified and abused by this group of farce long enough.
Now, this group of farce is coming after our homes.
People who live in the neighborhoods are going to have to incur significant
costs if SB 9 and its evil twin, SB 10, are implemented. Residents
are going to have to hire companies to survey their lot lines to make
sure the lot splits from SB 9 do not take out property that is not theirs
to take. These surveys can cost on the minimum 3000 to 4000 dollars.
They can run up to 20,000 dollars in some cases.
Resident's utility lines may be cut by this SB 9 building. The group of
people pushing fro SB 9 want to do it fast with no input from the public ie
by right and ministerially. No ceqa. No one can do this ministerially or by right.
To think one can do that shows how naive and inexperienced with land
use these people are. It shows how selfish these people are. All they think
of is the money they will make and not the issues they are forcing the rest
of the cities in the state and all of the cities in all of the states to go through.
This is not a walk in the park. SB 9 is a very dangerous insurrection to the
rule of law and the concept of local control which seems to go back to the
reason this country was founded and on which the current rule of law of this
nation rests.
To trivialize the concept of local control and the constitution shows how
naive this group of people are who think they are running this state, especially
since many of them are not elected.
Hence the push for the Our Neighborhood Voices Initiative. This is what the
people of California have been driven to because of the gross abuses from
SB 9 and SB 10. It follow directly with the concept of local control and
why the people who wound up founding this country fought a revolution
to ensure local control.
i am assuming that Oregon and Washington State will form their
own Our Neighborhood Voices Initiatives also. And we will have a Federal
Our Neighborhood Voices Initiative in due time.
Such are the times we are living in that cities and neighborhoods have to
fight for their very existence against such laws as SB 9 and SB 10.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Griffin