Comments on: Cupertino Electeds Adopt New Development Rules Despite Warnings From Housing Officials

By: alan young

alan young — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:43:29 +0000

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By: Keenplanner

Keenplanner — Tue, 11 May 2021 00:29:37 +0000

If it weren’t for the toxic NIMBYism of Cupertino and like white, suburban citadels of lawns and fear, the state wouldn’t have needed to pass legislation aimed at forcing such places to build their share of housing, both to help meet projected demands of the future, and the affordability demands of the present.
The other choice is to build further on to Agricultural and forested land in California, and try to hire teachers and firefighters willing to commute two hours because they can’t find housing in Cupertino, Palo Alto, or Marin County.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sun, 09 May 2021 20:20:13 +0000

Other local laws and ordinances stricter than the state’s have been upheld several times so it seems the author of this article has gotten some bad legal information or doesn’t keep up to date on these issues.

But this is what happens when you give up local control and let Sacramento morons run your local communities from their ivory towers of corruption.

By: SAM

SAM — Fri, 07 May 2021 20:50:38 +0000

Steven,

That stupid council approved the project in 2018. You’re saying Vallco was known to be a hazardous waste back in 2016? It had to be way earlier than that. HCD let those idiots approve it and it’s sure looks like city council sat on the information when they got it.

“Vallco updated the SCR twice, in June 2019 and August 2019, correcting prior mischaracterizations that no PCBs were detected above screening levels. Furthermore, additional testing samples in 2020 revealed more PCB contamination at the Project Site.”

How come the city council hid that it was a toxic dump? What is mischaracterization but a fancy word for lying? Lying about toxic waste? Lousy city council and lousy HCD letting this crap go on. Seems the developer is in with all of them, they don’t care about nobody at all.

https://www.cupertino.org/home/showpublisheddocument/29257/637550300276670000

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 07 May 2021 17:46:15 +0000

HCD let this joke of a city council approve vallco on a toxic waste dump and tried to hide it for what looks like two years

https://www.cupertino.org/home/showpublisheddocument/29257/637550300276670000

By: pds

pds — Fri, 07 May 2021 13:18:44 +0000

@ David Wall: Astonishing that you call the move towards liberalizing the housing economy “socialism”.

Zoning is much closer to central planning than anything else in contemporary America. The city of Cupertino literally centrally plans what kind of housing can be built where. The state is attempting to liberalize zoning, and thereby make housing more responsive to the market, which is the exact opposite of socialism.

The state should overrule Cupertino’s planning mafia, and allow developers to sue the city into oblivion, because the city is in violation of state law.

By: typeyourwittybithere

typeyourwittybithere — Fri, 07 May 2021 13:09:49 +0000

Cupertino Mayor Darcy Paul is correct. We do not live in an autocracy. But overreach from the State Legislature in the area of control of local land use has become so common that it’s easy to miss the nuanced federalism amid the distraction of so many authoritarian acts.

Cupertino has long recognized that the housing it needs is housing that people of modest means can afford. Cupertino also needs parks on its east side where residents are already crammed cheek by jowl. It needs water, transit and transportation infrastructure, and more funding for its public schools.

What Cupertino does not need is to subsidize bloated, extractive, office/market-rate housing developments imagined by an oligarch class determined to use real estate to hide from taxes the wealth it has amassed.

By: Local Yokel Reprise

Local Yokel Reprise — Fri, 07 May 2021 01:28:43 +0000

“Electeds,” for at least the second time in this publication recently? [sigh]

Why the emphasis, or selection, anyway?

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“elected leaders seemed unaware”

Defying or not even paying attention to law is nothing new for California liberals, liberal politicians or liberal tech companies.

BUT:

Maybe Cupertino wants to test state law, which wants to impose degradation.

berkeleysideDHOTTorgSLASH2021/04/09/berkeley-adu-harper-street-state-law

(If they’re more competent than most in today’s California, admittedly a stretch)

By: David S. Wall

David S. Wall — Thu, 06 May 2021 21:42:58 +0000

Good for Cupertino!

“Opponents of Cupertino’s legislation saw the vote as a cynical attempt to get away with approving fewer developments with density bonuses.” Boohoo to the socialist crybabies.

San Jose should cease being the dumping ground for the Bay Area’s rejects.

If you can’t afford to live in Cupertino or the Bay Area for that matter, move along.

It is not my fault people cannot afford to live here.

I can’t afford to live in Beverly Hills and I’m not crying about it.

David S. Wall