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10. 8.
9. 6.
7. 5.
GoalProjectTitle Description
Mayor ChaoTop10
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1. 2.
3. 4.
Enhance Senior
Services
Due to the high cost of senior centers, many seniors have to "age in place", but do still need services typically provided in senior centers, in addition to common home maintenance.- - Utilizing the survey results conducted in 2022 and 2023 to meet the needs of Cupertino seniors - Consider consultant services similar to Palo Alto or Saratoga Senior Center to enhance services, while reducing cost to the city.
NOTE: Cupertino Age-Friendly could make a presentation on the result of 2023 survey, in collaboration with the city staff.
NOTE: Successful Aging Solutions & Community Consulting (SASCC), who runs the Saratoga Senior Center could provide a free gap analysis and feasibility analysis
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Tax Measures on
the 2026 Ballot
- Real Estate Transfer Tax (similar to Mountain View, San Jose and other cities) for large transactions - to capture profits made as a result of upzoning - Head tax (similar to Mountain View and other cities) for large employers or renegotiate tax sharing agreements
- Sales tax (to be collected only if the county takes away the remaining 0.25%) ✔
Reduce the Scope
of Memorial Park
Plan to under $40M
The Memorial Park Plan like other plans tend to include too many features in one park, which the city cannot afford to accommodate. We should reduce the scope to reduce the
scope to under $40M to only essential elements
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Adopt LOS and
improve TDM
Accountability
Adopt LOS (Level of Service), in addition to VMT (Vehicle Miles Traveled), in any traffic assessment, since LOS is still a better measure of traffic impact.
Adopt requirements to ensure accountability of TDM (Traffic Demand Management) system since TDM often does not mitigate traffic impact as intended.
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Defensible Impact Fee
Nexus Study for Traffic
Impact Fee, Retail Impact
Fee, BMR Impact Fee
With almost every infill project approval and revision, we are losing almost all retail with almost zero parking. New units tend to provide more town homes, rather than much needed smaller starter units or senior flats. With potential challenges to waive impact fees and design standards, a defensible Nexus study is necessary to protect the city in order to collect impact fees since California Constitution does not allow unfunded mandates levied on cities.
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Financial, Investment,
and
Cashflow Policy
Review
Review and assess the City’s investment policy and best practices with an analysis of quarterly treasurers report.
Establish a cashflow management policy with the goal to reduce the total percentage in cash from 20% to 2% and to reduce the total percentage in cash and cash-equivalent.to at most 10%, on par with other cities. ✔
Strategies to
Enhance Sales
Tax Revenue
Develop strategies to improve sales tax revenue, including, but not limited to:
- With each infill redevelopment, provide transparency on the retail space and loss in retail categories and sales tax revenue
- Find out what businesses generate B2B taxes in Cupertino and in other cities - Attract businesses that generate sales taxes to Cupertino - Explore potential incentives to attract them to Cupertino, such as tax breaks or fee waivers ✔
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Enhance Notification
Methods for Development
Projects and General
Plan Amendments
- Consider a community meeting requirement for any major project application, especially those requiring a general plan amendment, as some other cities have adopted.
- Consider increasing notification radius from 300 feet to 500 feet (or even 1000 feet for major projects) for any project application, especially those requiring a general plan amendment. - Consider additional notification requirements for any project application seeking concessions/waivers of existing standards, such as parking reduction, building height, setback, retail space reduction, and/or impact fees.- - For city-wide general plan amendment, such as multiple sites for the Housing Element, consider comparable notification methods as single sites, rather than only through the newspaper, which has been insufficient ✔
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Enhance Art In-Lieu
Fee policy for better
engagement
Each development project has to dedicate art in-lieu fee, but the selection process does not engage the public to benefit the city as a whole. Explore policies adopted in other cities for better public engagement.
NOTE: To expand the current work program item "Art in Public and Private Areas": Revisit Municipal Code standards for art in public and private development, including the standards in the Municipal Code and developing an Art ͈in͈lieu fee policy.
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Transparency for
Commission
Meetings
Restore Hybrid Commission Meetings with both virtual and in-person public comments - with minimal staff support.
Include presentations, design docs in the agenda packet so that attendees who missed the meeting have access to them, such as the design docs for bike path projects.
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ATTACHMENT A
1 PleaseprovideabulletedlistofanyitemsinAttachmentAthatyourecommendforremoval. - Recycled Water Feasibility Study
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10. 8.
9. 6.
7. 5.
GoalProjectTitle Description
Councilmember&ƌƵĞŶTop10
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1. 2.
3. 4.
Urban Forest
10-Year Plan
Develop a plan and implementation strategy to increase the tree canopy in Cupertino to achieve at least 30% coverage in every city neighborhood by 2035 using climate-resilient species.
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Small Business
Revitalization Plan
Develop a plan and implementation strategy to support (1) new small business establishment; (2) preservation of
existing small businesses in order to improve placemaking in the city and the city's revenue stream.
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Active
Transportation
Plan
Continue the existing CWP item.
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Public Engagement
Strategy and Policies
in Support of Planning
Initiatives
Consolidate existing CWP (Attachment B Item 10) and proposed CWP public engagement-related items (Attachment B Items 4 and 5) to establish more focused policies governing public outreach and engagement with respect to General Plan amendments and rezonings with special consideration to lessons learned from the 6th RHNA Cycle Housing Element revision. ✔
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Commercial
Diversification
Plan
Develop a plan and implementation strategy to
diversify the range and types of medium-sized
businesses operating in the city.
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Permit Streamlining
and Simplification for
Small Home
Upgrades
Develop a suite of improvements to (1) improve access to, and (2) speed the processing of permits for small home
upgrades so as to enhance compliance and improve overall efficiency.
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Heart of the City
Specific Plan
Update
Revise the Heart of the City Specific Plan and relevant neighboring planning areas to focus residential growth on major corridors to better support commercial activity, and an increased tax base as well as the creation of “third spaces” for community building, while bringing homes, amenities, and jobs closer together to reduce vehicle miles traveled and improve the attractiveness of active transportation options. ✔
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Bicycle Facilities Continue existing CWP item. ✔
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Independence Day
Celebration
Enhancement
Identify and pursue low-hazard alternatives to the
traditional fireworks presentation if no safe venue
for traditional fireworks in Cupertino can be found.
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ATTACHMENT A
3 PleaseprovideabulletedlistofanyitemsinAttachmentAthatyourecommendforremoval.
Attachment B Item Nos. 11 and 12 could be consolidated into Proposed Item No. 1 above (Urban Forest 10-Year Plan).
See also Proposed Item No. 4 above, consolidating public engagement efforts and focusing on specific planning-related matters with particular reference to lessons learned from the 6th RHNA Cycle Housing Element revision.
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10. 8.
9. 6.
7. 5.
GoalProjectTitle Description
CouncilmemberMohan Top10
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1. 2.
3. 4.
Business
Revitalization
Explore options to support small businesses, fill
empty storefronts, and encourage entry of new
forms of retail to promote revitalization
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Expedite and/or
streamline building
permit and inspection
permit processes
Remove gridlock in construction, repairs and remodeling by streamlining permitting process. When processes get
cumbersome, they get circumvented. Delays impact
property tax and permitting fees revenues
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City Hall Seismic
Safety Issues
Determine cost and feasiblility options to deal with City Hall seismic safety: pros and cons of retrofit, remodel, lease temporary facility, purchase a new building. Include plans for Stocklmeir and Torre. ✔
Urban Forest
Program
Expand tree list review in current CWP to include
specifics to develop an urban forest plan to
increase trees, landscaping and greenery in all
parts of the city
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Leadership
Academy
Re-establish leadership program in collaboration with
neighboring cities and non-profits - to educate the public on public policy issues, and encourage new participation in city's civic life. Minimal City involvement.
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Update City's
Impact fees
Update governing policies and guidelines for all impact fees. ✔ General Plan
Community
Meetings
Consider community meetings for any developmen
t
or project that requires a GP amendment.
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Blackberry Farms
Pool and Picnic Area -
Open all year
Eliminate the 100 day restricted operation of BB Farms
picnic area facilities and swimming pool - and open all year.
Current restrictions deprive city of fee revenues, and deprive public access to public facilities.
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Lehigh Quarry Continue to monitor quarry activities and present bi-annual updates to Council. Continued collaboration with County and neighboring cities is recommended.
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Ad Hoc Senior
Commission
Establish an ad-hoc senior commission/ committee/working group to create channels of communication between the senior
population, senior center, senior living facilities - and address concerns re: housing, transportation, medical facilities. ✔
ATTACHMENT A
5 PleaseprovideabulletedlistofanyitemsinAttachmentAthatyourecommendforremoval.
Recommended for Removal
1. City Treasurer review
2. Investment Policy
3. General Plan notifications - from 300 to 500 feet
4. Public Engagement Strategy
5. Art in Public Places
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10. 8.
9. 6.
7. 5.
GoalProjectTitle Description
Vice MayorMoore Top10
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3. 4.
Work Program
Process
Review Work Program History, budget considerations and timing, key takeaways, best practices, mission and vision, goal categories, staff suggestions for process improvement and workload management.
Include CIP projects which are in process and their costs. ✔
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Unhoused
Policies
Determine best practices for limited budget smaller cities to manage the unhoused. Review RV practices in surrounding cities for impacts and potential adoption. Review transitional housing outcomes in surrounding cities. Policies to include nimble contingency plans. ✔
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City Properties:
Planning for
optimal use
Revisit City Hall/Torre Annex Planning RE Seismic/EOC. Future planning strategies for Stocklmeir house/garages, Blech House, Blue Pheasant. Goal of judicial use of city-owned properties.
Investigate potential purchase of CUSD Finch/Phil property. ✔
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Bus Stop
Inventory
Inventory city bus stops and coordinate with
VTA for improvements to seating, shading, and
security
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SV Hopper
Feasibility
Determine a future funding source for this
grant-funded program. Provide two ridership
and financial updates per year.
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Tree Planting Increase tree canopy on city-owned properties with climate appropriate, preferably suitably CA native trees with volunteer tree-planting opportunities as feasible. ✔
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Night time safety
awareness
Coordinate public education and potential (private
and/or public) grants for night time safety for
bikes/peds/pets (Fall Bike Fest, SR2S, festivals)
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Water
Conservation
Policies
Reduce irrigation while increasing pollinator supporting vegetation (turf conversion). Optimize irrigation
systems including CUSD use agreement sites.
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Environmental
Hazards
Add Geotracker and DTSC sites to the GIS
mapping layers in the city to improve public
awareness.
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Impact Fees Evaluate and realign impact fees.
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ATTACHMENT A
8 # Name Description Department Category Goal Status Start Finish %Complete Milestone in Progress
FY
1 EmergencyOperations
Readiness
Reviewfire,earthquaketornado,
activeshooter,Tsunami,
hazardoustransportaccident
policies;andensureEOCisactive
andfunctioningwitha
peremanentpositionnot
consultantrunningtheprogram.
CityManager'sOffice Sustainability and
FiscalStrategy
Ensurereadinessand
playbookduring
emergencies
Proposed FY25
2 EconomicDevelopment Restoreeconomicdevelopment
committee,exploregrantwriter
position,attractstartupsand
companiesinthetechecosystem.
CityManager'sOffice Sustainabilityand
FiscalStrategy
Developtaxbaseand
driverevenues
Proposed FY25
3 Small
BusinessRevitalization
Ordinance
Streamlinepermittingprocess,
exploremorethemedeventslike
restaurantweekandbobatino,
attractmorefestivals,createa
smallbusinesscouncil,provide
regulatorysupport.
CityManager'sOffice Sustainabilityand
FiscalStrategy
Developtaxbaseand
driverevenues
Proposed FY25
4 SFH
permittingreview
process.
Improveturnaroundtimes.Set
SLA'sforstaffandoutsourced
reviewers,customerserviceKPI's,
templatestoreducebackand
forth,internalstaffexperitseto
reduceconsultingexpenses.
Simplifypermitingforsmallhome
upgrades
Community
Development
QualityofLife Reduce costsand
timeforSFHremodels
anddevelopment
Proposed FY25
5 Majorthorougfare
congesstionstudyandroad
improvements.
StudyDeAnza,StevensCreek,
Stelling,Wolfe,Homestead,and
Bollinger,Roadimprovement
optionsincludesadaptivetraffic
signals,noturnsonrednear
schoolsduringschoolhours,
streetpaving,andtraffic
enforcementofbikers,cars,and
pedestrians
PublicWorks QualityofLife Reduce
transittimes
forresidentsand
improvesafety
Proposed FY25
6 MemorialParkRennovation Reduceplanorplaceinphases, considerrevenuemodelssuchas
concessionsandservciesinthe
mixforthepark.
ParksandRecreation Quality ofLife Ensure timely
constructionandcost
effective
implementation
Proposed FY25
7 CityHallRetrofiandEOC
ReadinessPlan
Implementthepreviously
approved2022Councilplanwith
EOCmigration
PublicWorks Sustainabilityand
FiscalStrategy
Protectcity
employeesand
ensureemergency
readiness
Proposed FY25
8 Public
SafetyͲBlockLeader
andNeighborhoodWatch
CityManager'sOffice Quality ofLife Reduce crime In Progress 7/1/2022 6/30/2025 95 Execution Phase
FY25
9 LicensePlateReaders CityManager'sOffice Quality ofLife InProgress 7/1/2022 6/30/2025 77 Procurement FY24 10 5GOrdinance PublicWorks Quality ofLife InProgress 7/1/2022 4/30/2025 88 Planning Phase
FY23
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