[Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: ALERT!! Stealth Coyote Valley action on SJ city council agenda Tuesday 6/26

[JamBoi]

--- Michael Wood <coyotevalley at inbox.com> wrote:

> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:28:09 -0800
> From: Michael Wood <coyotevalley at inbox.com>
> Subject: ALERT!! CSVP on SJ city council agenda
> Tuesday 6/26
> To: coyotevalley at inbox.com
> 

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This is really short notice, but we have a critical
City Council Meeting coming up this Tuesday at 1:30pm.
The City is NOT planning on including Coyote Valley in
a General Plan update for the Entire City. If the
Coyote Valley area were included in the General Plan
update, it would probably delay development for over a
year, if not indefinitely.

The San Jose City Council is trying to push the Coyote
Valley Development Plans through without the public
knowing! Don't stand by while our beautiful valley
gets paved over! It sounds more complicated than it
is, but please, PLEASE come to this City Council
Meeting. If you do, WE'LL GIVE YOU A FREE T-SHIRT!
We'll be there with t-shirts so that you can represent
at the meeting!

Attached is a message explaining dates and times,
newspapers you can write letters to, and contact info
of all City Council Members. THIS IS THE ONE WE NEED
YOUR HELP WITH!

If you would like more details, please contact Mark
Anthony Medeiros at (408) 607-1709

Save Coyote Valley!

San Jose IS NOT planning to include Coyote Valley in
the General Plan Update!

Tell the city council that it is imperative that the
GP directive to have 25,000 dwelling units and50,000
jobs in Coyote Valley needs serious, city-wide
discussion. (see agenda item4.3
http://www.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/Agenda/062607/062607a.pdf)

At their meeting on Tuesday the City Council has the
opportunity to direct city staff to include discussion
of possible changes to these pre-requisite numbers as
part of the general plan update process. These numbers
have driven the specific plan design and are largely
responsible for the inappropriate development
footprint in Coyote Valley. The seriously flawed DEIR
found 92 significant environmental impacts. A reduced
scale development would have substantially less
impact. Does Coyote Valley need to be developed? Does
it need to contain a new city of80,000 people? Won’t
this create traffic and air quality problems for San
Jose and the region? How can an adequate wildlife
corridor be ensured when the current plan does not
address this issue?

A YES vote by the city council to include the
25,000/50,000 criteria in the GP work program means
the CVSP planning process must be SUSPENDED until the
GP update is complete. That means this ill-considered
project will be put on hold while the general plan
update and the Habitat Conservation Plan/Natural
Communities Conservation Plan proceeds.Better
information leads to a better plan. One that is
consistent with current conditions, not conditions in
2002 (when the CVSP task force formed) or 1994 when
the last GP update occurred.

Also, agenda item 4.2 is focused on renewing the
contract agreement between the CHG (developer/funders)
and the city for more funding for the planning
process. 

Attend the city council meeting on Tuesday June 26th
and speak out

1:30PM
San Jose City Hall
200 E. Santa Clara Street

 Send an email to all San Jose City Council members
and ask them to include the25,000/50,000 in the
general plan update, Envision San Jose 2040 

Mayor Chuck Reed Mayoremail at sanjoseca.gov
Pete Constant District1 at sanjoseca.gov
Forrest Williams forrest.williams at sanjoseca.og
Sam Liccardo District3 at sanjoseca.gov
Nora Campos District5 at sanjoseca.gov
Pierluigi Oliverio District6 at sanjoseca.gov
Madison Nguyen District7 at sanjoseca.gov
Vice Mayor Dave Cortese dave.cortese at sanjoseca.gov
Judy Chirco District9 at sanjoseca.gov
Nancy Pyle District10 at sanjoseca.gov

Send a Letter to the Editor – Let the whole city
know what’s going on in Coyote Valley

Letters to the San Jose Mercury News should be sent to
letters at mercurynews.com (125 word or less, with no
attachments, and include full name, address and
daytime phone)

>From the Staff Memo
(http://www.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/Agenda/062607/062607_04.03.pdf)

Implications for the Covote Vallev Specific Plan
(CVSP)
Staff is continuing its work on the Coyote Valley
Specific Plan. The language in the San Jose 2020
General Plan states "the Prerequisite Conditions
(triggers)shouldonly be modified during a
comprehensive update of the General Plan involving a
community taskforce similar to the San Jose 2020
General Plan update process." The project description
in the CVSP Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR)
includes a General Plan text amendment to modify the
purpose of the existing triggers and their timing to
allow the City Council to adopt a CVSP and Planned
Community designation without having to first meet the
triggers. This text amendment would not change the
Prerequisite Conditions themselves, but would rather
change the timing of when those conditions are to be
met. This means that the specific plan could be
adopted, but no residential development could be
approved prior to satisfying all the triggers.

As noted above, any proposed changes to the
Prerequisite Conditions can only be considered during
the General Plan Update, per the San Jose 2020 General
Plan. In addition, any proposed change to the
25,000dwelling unit and 50,000job minimum development
capacities proposed for the CVSP should only occur
during the General Plan Update. Neither of these
issues is currently included in the General Plan
Update Work Program. Staff is recommending that the
Work Program not include either item. If the City
Council would like to consider changes to either or
both of these topics, then they should be incorporated
into the General Plan Update Work Program and
schedule, and work on the CVSP process should be
suspended until the conclusion of the Update process.


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