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Margarita Bliznikova submitted a new eComment.
Meeting: Planning Commission on 2022-08-03 6:00 PM
Item: 2. 22-930 Action on Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, General Plan Amendment and Rezone for the Property Located at 1601 Civic Center Drive
eComment: I live nearby and I’m extremely opposing development project on 1601 Civic Center Drive It will create disproportional traffic, make the existing problem with limited parking spaces here only worse. The infrastructure is not supposed for such high-density residential project. Also it will lead to higher risk for pedestrians Neighborhood is not suitable for high-density development. It will add more noise, traffic, make neighborhood more crowded and unsafe, put too high load on infrastructure
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1 Kiran Singh
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C F submitted a new eComment.
Meeting: Planning Commission on 2022-08-03 6:00 PM
Item: 2. 22-930 Action on Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, General Plan Amendment and Rezone for the Property Located at 1601 Civic Center Drive
eComment: STRONGLY OPPOSE! Community is waiting for answers from CH but no follow ups.
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1 Kiran Singh
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VENEE CRUZ submitted a new eComment.
Meeting: Planning Commission on 2022-08-03 6:00 PM
Item: 2. 22-930 Action on Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, General Plan Amendment and Rezone for the Property Located at 1601 Civic Center Drive
eComment: STRONG OPPOSE! This location is not suitable for high density 5 stories. Our neighborhood is already crowded and impacted by blight and petty crimes. Developer didn’t listen to any of the community concerns. We will not accept the driveway on CCD, it will be prone to high risks of accidents. This development will have huge negative impact on existing communities and will impact our safety and security. I will no longer feel safe walking in my community. Please do your due diligence and save us.
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1 Kiran Singh
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John Galt submitted a new eComment.
Meeting: Planning Commission on 2022-08-03 6:00 PM
Item: 2. 22-930 Action on Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, General Plan Amendment and Rezone for the Property Located at 1601 Civic Center Drive
eComment: This is what happens when we have elected “leaders,” namely Mayor Lisa Gillmor, who has special interests and works with/has ties with development companies. Sooner, rather than later, this is going to be the same case when Great America is gone; especially now since Gillmor has her hand-picked “officials” sitting in Planning Commission doing work for her. They choose development over our communities to enrich themselves. We need new leaders without special interests.
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1 Kiran Singh
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Meeting: Planning Commission on 2022-08-03 6:00 PM
Item: 2. 22-930 Action on Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, General Plan Amendment and Rezone for the Property Located at 1601 Civic Center Drive
eComment: STRONGLY OPPOSE! We already feel unsafe. Our neighborhood is experiencing blight, noise, petty crime, shortage of parking and a decline in the quality of life. City should consider other suitable sites for ultra-dense housing, and give our needs as Citizens priority over developers. The idea of creating affordable housing in one spot will create pockets of poverty, increased crime, drug dealing, etc. The best way to create affordable housing is to spread it out throughout the entire communities.
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1 Kiran Singh
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In Seok Hwang submitted a new eComment.
Meeting: Planning Commission on 2022-08-03 6:00 PM
Item: 2. 22-930 Action on Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, General Plan Amendment and Rezone for the Property Located at 1601 Civic Center Drive
eComment: PLEASE NO MORE HEARING !!! STRONG OPPOSE !!! I am also afraid of huge negative impact on existing communities. The planning area is already fully congested and no parking. There are new high density building construction across the El. Camino Real. Another monster 4-5 story building next to existing residential single family homes/townhouse community is not desirable. Our region is already crowded !!. Please consider other locations with old shopping mall with lesser population density.
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1 Kiran Singh
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Meeting: Planning Commission on 2022-08-03 6:00 PM
Item: 2. 22-930 Action on Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, General Plan Amendment and Rezone for the Property Located at 1601 Civic Center Drive
eComment: I strongly oppose the proposed construction plan at 1601Civic Centre Dr. by CH. It's going to have devastating effects on this quite dense neighborhood. Adding such a high-density housing is going to create resource scarcity for the residents living here mainly with parking issues, school intake, crime/theft, noise etc. Please consider moving this to a more favorable area. We need more breathing space in this already congested area and would be very thankful if a park can be considered instead.
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1 Kiran Singh
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To: Priya Cherukuru; Ricci Herro; Yashraj Bhatnagar; Nancy Biagini; Lance Saleme; Qian Huang; Andrew Crabtree; Jonathan Veach; Reena Brilliot; PlanningCommission; Planning Public Comment; Debby Fernandez; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Item 2: Approve Civic Center With Recommendations Santa Clara Planning Commissioners,
Our local families desperately need affordable homes. At 108 units, this Civic Center Drive project from Charities Housing will be an essential housing option for many.
Let's not be discouraged by a handful of loud voices. Instead, let's build homes to tackle our current and future needs.
I urge you to vote yes to approve the Civic Center
Drive Family Project, Item 2, for the following reasons:
‐108 affordable homes are desperately needed to meet the demand, to provide housing for people like our local teachers and service workers ‐The parking count is appropriate for the site given access to VTA s buses and shopping along El Camino Real
Meanwhile, here are two things you could ask about in the hearing that could make the project better:
‐To cut down on traffic, the developer could provide free bus passes for residents as other affordable developers do in our area ‐Create a more active, vibrant ground
floor to promote neighborhood interactions
I strongly urge you to support the Civic Center Drive project,
<Your Name>
Laurie Duckham‐shoor
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2 been met. In-spite of all this, CH has the audacity to place the following in their Mitigated Negative Declaration MND response to our objections:
"Response E-6: Based on the Community Crime Map for the City of Santa Clara (https://communitycrimemap.com/) there have been no calls for service to the project site between January 1, 0221 (typo is not mine) and July 12, 2022." This is false. Why has CH left out the 9 mo nths of 2020 when most of our complaints were made? Why did CH filter out visits by SCPD to complaining homes on Triton Ct. and only cites visits to 1601? Why does CH not mention that the Crime Report does not include cases where arrests are not made or when there is no suspect and may not include every complaint made to the SCPD dispatch? Most importantly: Why did CH not ask for the evidence directly from the neighbors in the four long public meetings when they deliberately stayed silent in response to our complaints? Is CH claiming that effectively, we the neighbors are liars? We have attached a few pictures to show the ho meless encampment and are happy to provide further evidence for our claims. The brief history proves that CH is not transparent and evades accountability. CH has added insu lt to injury by claiming “nothing happened on our watch”.
CH distorts the evidence and ignores facts on the ground. We hope you take the time to question CH the hard questions we have repeatedly asked and conduct your own fact finding before approving this project. We are happy to invite you to our homes to prove the shadow “study” is incorrect and to share first hand witness reports, and how this project will impact us. Please understand CH will do anything, including resorting to ‘general’ parking studies to get its project approved. Please note that:
1. CH has refused to move all the entrances and lanes for their project to Lincoln Street. The situation on Civic Center Drive with 4 lanes in proximity to each other is hazardous.
2. CH has refused to reduce the height of the building to 2-3 as many other new developments in Santa Clara have.
3. The parking spaces are inadequate. Currently there are no parking spaces in ou r neighborhood past 6 or 7pm. The curbs cannot be cleaned because the parked cars have nowhere to go. The former Fuji florist’s project site (on Warburton) will add to the congestion.
There is blight, and car break-ins daily alon g the curbs. SCPD Community Relations has informed us that they do not have the bandwidth to address the volume of petty crime. The c o n g e s t i o n a d d e d b y C H w i l l m a k e i t w o r s e . C H h a s b e e n a n d w i l l b e a b u r d e n o n t h e enforcement budget of the City. Longer term such dense uneconomic projects can easily flop and the mess will become the tax payers and the City’s burden.
4. The vast majority of our neighborhood wants a park on the current site of 1601 .
Our petition to place this for consideration on a future Council Meeting Agenda was approved by the Council in September 2021. Why is our alternative proposal for this site not even being considered in a timely fashion on equal footing to CH’s proposal? As we understand this matter should have been placed on the City Council Agenda for a vote within a month of approval. Should the Citizens be paying the price for the process inefficiency and the fact that there was a City Manager change? We ask that our proposal be given fair consideration.
The MND section E lists our objections. The respo nses to our objections are flawed, evasive, and in some cases even not related to the objection.
3 CH’s shadow study is still flawed after 4 publ ic presentations. It claims there is no more shadow on my home 1691, 1701, and 1681 than the current two story building. Mr. Hood o f CH admitted that the shadow study is inaccurate in the last public meeting on July 20 2022.
I explained why the study is flawed to the planning department and again two times in public meetings. In spite of this the public record has not been corrected and decision makers will likely assume the shadow study is a “pass”. My home and at least two other homes have no obstruction from the current two-story building to cause a shadow. If CH’s project is approved, we will lose our view of the Civic Center Pa rk, the sky and the shadows from the 5-story tall building will reduce the efficiency of any solar installation as well as ruins the view from ou r homes. My home is RED on the toxic fume sect ion of the MND report. We objected that the mitigation of toxic fumes during construction is not adequate. There needs to be a 24/7 sensor that wirelessly transmits data (or checked 2-3 times a day) to code enforcement for prompt action. The MND response places the burden of reporting on the affected neighbors.
This is not fair. We may be working at the office and even if staying at home we have no effective way of monitoring toxic emissions. The response does not allay our fears. The noise level of 90db during construction is unacceptable. The City’s code is 55dB. The response E-4 to this objection refers back to D-2 which addresses a different problem! No one should be asked to be exposed to 90dB of noise within yards of their home, for an extended period of time and in such close proximity. Would you as Citizens tolerate such a noise level fo r
yourselves and your families?
This project is not suited to or safe for our neighborhood because of the density, proximity, negative impact on the environment, traffic, parking, shadow, toxic fumes, long term impact on City infrastructure and finances, property va lues, etc. The quality of life has degraded in our neighborhood in the two years since the 1601 site became a homeless encampment.
Ultimately this project is a badl y designed patch to an urgent social problem. The patch will make matters worse over time. In-spite of the hype , it is not in the public best interest and will devastate our neighb orhood over the next 50 years, ala the failed social and business model of NYC concentrated and dense Public Ho using projects. In addition, CH has serious credibility and ‘good faith’ issues which must be considered.
Again, we urge you to consider that “The end does not justify the means. “. Let us not lower the bar to the minimum technical aspects of CEQA or other rules. Please consider the big picture and the voices of us Citizens and to reject CH’s proposal for 1601 Civic Center Drive.
Sincerely
Keyhan Sinai
Cc:
Morteza Shafiei, President Civic Center Village HOA on Triton Ct. Santa Clara, CA
1 Elizabeth Elliott
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Eric Lau submitted a new eComment.
Meeting: Planning Commission on 2022-08-03 6:00 PM
Item: 2. 22-930 Action on Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, General Plan Amendment and Rezone for the Property Located at 1601 Civic Center Drive
eComment: I oppose this project not because I'm against development but because I'm against having a bad neighbor. Charities Housing had the opportunity to reach out to us early on to see how we can work together to properly integrate this project into the neighborhood. If CH was cooperative, we wouldn't be sitting here today opposing their designs. It's still not too late for CH to make changes to accommodate our requests unless they feel it’s no longer charity when it hits their own pocket books.
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1 Elizabeth Elliott
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Eric Lee submitted a new eComment.
Meeting: Planning Commission on 2022-08-03 6:00 PM
Item: 2. 22-930 Action on Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, General Plan Amendment and Rezone for the Property Located at 1601 Civic Center Drive
eComment: This neighborhood already has some significant impacts to parking due to the existing high-density housing complexes that already exist, plus the new addition at 1900 Warburton nearby. With the addition of another 100+ housing units and insufficient on-site parking, this problem is only going to get worse for existing residents. I strongly oppose this proposal.
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