Wear RED to Support CCSGI and Oppose Vallco Initiative - Your Presence Is Essential

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Wear RED to Support CCSGI and Oppose Vallco Initiative - Your Presence Is Essential

Attend March 31, 2016 Cupertino City Council Meeting

Time: 6:45pm March 31, 2016

Location: Community Hall (next to Cupertino Library)

Sand Hill has sent a call-to-action to implore Vallco Town Center Initiative supporters (could include paid out-of-town "supporters") to attend the March 31, 2016 City Council meeting to oppose the Cupertino Citizens' Sensible Growth Initiative (CCSG Initiative). We need all CCSG Initiative supporters to attend the City Council meeting to object to the developer-sponsored Vallco office park initiative that will replace a shopping center with a massive office park. It's a show down. Your presence is essential to protect Cupertino from being turned into Manhattan West.

The CCSG Initiative will allow Vallco to be revitalized in a manner that is aligned with the community's vision and will allow Cupertino to grow sensibly in accordance with the community's vision. Don't let the future of Vallco be locked down by one developer's proposal of a massive office park without an environmental impact review or the City Council's approval. Don't let Cupertino fall into a long nightmare of traffic congestion and more and more state-mandated housing requirements due to more massive office construction. Attend the March 31, 2016 City Council meeting to oppose the Vallco office park initiative.

On Thursday March 31, 2016, the City Council will decide whether or not (1) to adopt the CCSG Initiative immediately, (2) to add the CCSG Initiative the November ballot, or (3) to identify roadblocks they will use to prevent the CCSG Initiative from moving forward. The CCSG Initiative Election Code 9212 Impact Report (9212 report)  is not only biased, but also contains false accusations and impossible, worst-case assumptions for the CCSG Initiative. Our attorney has written a letter to the City to refute the most egregious and false assertions in the CCSG Initiative 9212 report: 

Important Information About the CCSG Initiative correcting Misrepresentations in the CCSG Initiative Section 9212 Report:

•     The CCSG Initiative will not increase any existing building height limit set by zoning in any area in Cupertino. Anyone who claims the CCSG Initiative will raise building height limits in some areas, including Neighborhoods, lacks a basic understanding of the function of the General Plan and what it mandates or prohibits.  Based on the language in the CCSG Initiative, only zoning that set height limits above those in the initiative would need to be changed.

•     In places where the CCSG Initiative removes a requirement from the General Plan, such as the requirement for projects to identify a master developer or draft a town-center layout, neither the developer nor the City is prevented or prohibited from appointing a master developer, adopting a town-center layout, or providing any deliverable that was previously required.

•     Both Housing Element Scenarios A and B were adopted by the City and are part of the General Plan in December 2014. Any inconsistency resulting from a transition from Scenario A to Scenario B can be resolved by the City using its normal processes. Actions required by the City to harmonize the transition from Scenario A to Scenario B are legal and outside the scope of the CCSG Initiative.

The CCSG Initiative 9212 report is full of other unreasonable and biased characterizations of the CCSG Initiative. We will do our best address the most serious errors during Thursday's Council meeting.

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Paid for by Committee supporting Cupertino Citizens' Sensible Growth Initiative, PO Box 1132, Cupertino, CA 95015, FPPC# 1381645. 

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