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Cupertino City Council
March 18, 2025

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C - Not Selected Items
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March 18, 2025
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ATTACHMENT C
# Councilmember Proposed Title Councilmember Proposed Project Description Est budget Est staff hours Lead Department(s) Total Ranking 1 SFH permitting review process. Improve turnaround times. Set SLA's for staff and outsourced reviewers, customer service KPI's, templates to reduce back and forth, internal staff expertise to reduce consulting expenses. Simplify permitting for small home upgrades.
$ Medium Community Development 1
2 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.
$ Small City Manager's Office 1
3 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 eve n
1 000 feet for major projects) for any project application, especially those requiring a general plan amendment.
* d dd l f f l
$ Medium Community Development 1
4 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.
$$ Large Community Development 1
5 Major thoroughfare congestion
study and road improvements.

Study De Anza, Stevens Creek, Stelling, Wolfe, Homestead, and Bollinger, Road improvement options include adaptive traffic signals, no turns on red near schools during school hours, street paving, and traffic enforcement of bikers, cars, and pedestrians.
$$ Large Public Works 1
6 Urban Forest 10-Year Plan Develop a plan and implementation strategy to increase the tree canopy in Cupertino to achieve at least 30% coverage in every city neighborhood by 2035 using climate-resilient species.
$$ Medium Public Works 1
7 Impact Fees Evaluate and realign impact fees. $$$ Large Community Development 1 8 Reduce the Scope of Memorial
Park Plan to under $40M
The Memorial Park Plan like other plans tend to include too many features in one park, which the city cannot afford to accommodate. We should reduce the scope to under $40M to only essential elements
$$ Medium Parks & Recreation 1
9 Active Transportation Plan Continue the existing CWP item. $$ Medium Public Works 1 Not Selected Items
1 ATTACHMENT C
# Councilmember Proposed Title Councilmember Proposed Project Description Est budget Est staff hours Lead Department(s) Total Ranking Not Selected Items
10 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
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in
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lieu fee policy.
$ Medium Community Development 1
11 General Plan
Community
Meetings
Consider community meetings for any development or project that requires a GP amendment.
$ Medium Community Development 1
12 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.
$ Medium City Manager's Office 0
13 Commercial Diversification Plan Develop a plan and implementation strategy to diversify the range and types of medium-sized businesses operating in the city.
$$ Medium City Manager's Office 0
14 Independence Day Celebration
Enhancement
Identify and pursue low-hazard alternatives to the traditional fireworks presentation if no safe venue for traditional fireworks in Cupertino can be found.
$$ Large Parks & Recreation 0
15 Transparency for Commisison
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.
$$ Large Innovation & Technology 0
16 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.
$ Large Parks & Recreation 0
17 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) $ Medium Public Works 0
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