Santa Clara County Grand Jury • 2017-2018 • Agency Response
Response to: Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors

City of City Manager's Office City Hall*

Published: September 19, 2018 8 pages
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Findings and Recommendations 2 findings

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Opposition to development projects is generally not limited to BMR housing projects. Concerns regarding NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) housing projects in general have also been related to opposition adversely affects the traffic, construction related impacts, school impacts supply of BMR housing units. and concerns about property values. Finding/Recommendation Response Will not be implemented.
Related Recommendations (1)
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Residents continue to have valid concerns about traffic A task force to communicate congestion and the lack of meaningful transit in the the value and importance of West Valley. In addition, the City has identified and is each city meeting its RHNA working on collaboration on ways to address regional objectives for BMR housing transportation solutions that cannot be solved by any should be created and funded one city with other cities, businesses and the VTA. The by the County and all 15 cities, addition of a task force will not increase the City's by June 30, 2019. participation in regional cooperation. Partially Agree While there continue to be opportunities to improve
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access to information and enhance transparency, It is unnecessarily difficult to Cupertino annually reports the number of housing confirm how many BMR units units generated each year to the CA Department of are constructed in a particular Housing and Community Development in compliance year or RHNA cycle because with mandated requirements and makes these reports cities and the County only available on its Housing webpages. However, these report permitted units. are for building permits issued and not for how many units obtain occupancy.
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Has not been implemented but will be implemented All 15 cities and the County in the future. should annually publish the This information will be provided on the City's number of constructed BMR website, starting in April 2019. units, starting in April 2019. . . .

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