Cupertino Citizens' Sensible Growth Initiative: Power to the People

Cupertino Citizens' Sensible Growth Initiative is online.
http://www.ccsensiblegrowth.org/

This is our chance to bring some sense into the frenzy development boom and to reinstate true democracy in Cupertino. Voters speak up.

Get Information about the Petition:

Join us at the Cupertino Library, on Sunday, December 20, 2015 to get more information about the petition for the Cupertino Citizens’ Sensible Growth initiative!

Help qualify the initiative for the 2016 ballot. Volunteer to be a signature gatherer (circulator).
Donate to help reach out to more voters.
Any one who is at least 18 years old and a citizen or a permanent resident (green card) qualifies to gather signatures from voters who are registered to vote in Cupertino. There is no residency requirement for signature gatherers

Time: 12 pm to 2 pm

Date: Sunday, December 20, 2015

Location: Cupertino Library at the entrance plaza, 10800 Torre Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014

Note: Due to some technical difficulties, the petitions won't be ready for signatures this weekend.

Sign up online at http://www.ccsensiblegrowth.org if you want to be notified of future signature gathering events or want to volunteer to help gather signatures.Join us at the Cupertino Library, on Sunday, December 20, 2015 to sign the petition for the Cupertino Citizens’ Sensible Growth initiative!

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Why should residents support an initiative to ensure sensible growth in Cupertino?

By Committee Supporting Cupertino Citizens' Sensible Growth Initiative

http://www.mercurynews.com/cupertino/ci_29265009/commentary-why-should-residents-support-an-initiative-ensure

The city of Cupertino is under constant pressure from developers to amend its General Plan. Developers push to increase building heights and densities and to change land use. Currently, development projects only need to appeal to the majority of city council members.

Amendments to the General Plan are changing Cupertino. The city is losing its pleasant suburban character. Cupertino will be indistinguishable from other densely populated communities, except Cupertino will be without the infrastructure required to support intensive development. The city lacks sites for new schools, lacks parks and recreational facilities and lacks sufficient road capacity to handle increased pedestrian, bicycle, and motor vehicle traffic safely.

The Cupertino Citizens' Sensible Growth Initiative would do the following:

- Control the density of new development to ensure that projects fit with the city's infrastructure by maintaining citywide limits on building heights, setbacks and building planes.
- Affirm that the land within the Vallco Shopping District will be used for major retail, entertainment, dining, and hotels.
- Require that proposed changes or exceptions to the building limits and land uses described in the initiative will not be enacted unless first approved by Cupertino voters.

The initiative is a follow-the-law initiative, or more specifically, a follow-the-General Plan initiative. Amendments to the General Plan are intended to be rare because the General Plan is the long-term guide for the city's future.

The initiative intends to change the way the developers plan for projects they will bring to Cupertino. The initiative promotes development projects that are suitable to the characteristics of the city and discourages projects that do not fit within the guidelines of the General Plan.

As supporters of the Cupertino Citizens' Sensible Growth Initiative, we advocate sensible growth. We advocate growth that considers the impact of major housing and office developments on the existing infrastructure. Sensible growth requires that major housing and office developments will be accompanied by sufficient schools, parks and transportation to meet the needs of Cupertino's residents. We believe the passage of the Cupertino Citizens' Sensible Growth Initiative is essential to ensure a future of sensible growth in Cupertino.

Soon, we will start to collect signatures to qualify the Cupertino Citizens' Sensible Growth Initiative for the ballot in 2016.

For more information about the initiative, including: where to sign a petition, how to volunteer to collect petition signatures or how to donate money to support the initiative effort, visit CCSensibleGrowth.org.
The Committee Supporting Cupertino Citizens' Sensible Growth Initiative's FPPC# 1381645.