Planning Commission April 28,2026 - Apr 28, 2026

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Cupertino Planning Commission 1h 11m 3 speakers 5 agenda items transcribed 2 months ago official recording ↗

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What items are on the April 28, 2026 Planning Commission agenda and how does the meeting open?

David Fung 0:01

for Tuesday April 28th 2026 please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance great thank you very much so we will now move to the roll call city clerk

Chair Kasolschon 0:31

Commissioner Feng?

Steven Scharf 0:32

Present.

Chair Kasolschon 0:34

Commissioner Linskog? Commissioner Rao? Vice Chair Scharf?

Steven Scharf 0:39

Present.

Chair Kasolschon 0:40

Chair Kasolschon? Present. For the record, Commissioner Linskog and Commissioner Rao are absent. Okay, thank you very much city clerk. And we will move on to approval of the minutes. Do we have a motion to approve the minutes from the April 14 2026 Planning Commission meeting?

Steven Scharf 0:58

Sure, I'd be happy to do that. I move that we approve the minutes as submitted. I'll second.

Chair Kasolschon 1:05

City clerk, may we please have a vote?

Chair Kasolschon 1:14

Okay, that's fine. Commissioner Fung. Aye. Commissioner Linskog is absent. Commissioner Rao is absent. Vice Chair Scharf.

Steven Scharf 1:23

Aye.

Chair Kasolschon 1:24

Chair Gasolchron. Aye. The motion carries unanimously. Thank you. So we will move on to postponements. Seeing as there are none, we'll move on to oral communications. City Clerk, do we have any oral communications? Yes. We have no speakers, Chair. Excellent, moving on. We have no old business, so we will move on to the new business, which is agenda item two, review of the fiscal year 2026 to 2027 capital improvement program proposal for consistency with the City of Cupertino's general plan. And may we please have the staff report.

Susan Michaels 2:06

Good evening, commissioners. I'm Susan Michael, the CIP manager, and I'm here tonight with Director of Public Works, Chad Mosley. As support, we are going to run through the Capital Improvement Program, and we're looking to check its conformance with the general plan. Sorry. So tonight's action is to adopt a resolution finding that the fiscal year 26-27 capital improvement program's proposal is consistent with the city's general plan. And I just wanted to note that as noted in the staff report, California Government Code 65-401 requires that Public Works submits the list of proposed new CIP projects for the ensuing fiscal year to the Planning Commission for review as to conformity with the adopted general plan.

Susan Michaels 3:01

And then Cupertino's Municipal Code Section 2.32.070 requires that the Planning Commission review the CIP for consistency with the general plan. So we are before you tonight for this review. I wanted to note that there is a CIP webpage. If you navigate on the city's webpage to the Public Works page, you will find the CIP information, and there's a plethora of additional information about the program there. So for fiscal year 2020, Actually, I've got the wrong year there. For fiscal year 26-27, the CIP projects are, there's five of them. And in the next pages, we will have a narrative page giving more information about the project and a page showing the conformance of each project. So I'll go through that there.

Susan Michaels 4:01

So the first project is the Blackberry Farms Golf Course Pro Shop renovation. That pro shop has not been comprehensively renovated in many years and is now outdated, inefficient, and out of alignment with current accessibility and building standards. This project proposes a full interior renovation to improve the functionality, safety, and customer service. And to note its conformance, this is in line with land use goals that ask for maintaining and improving the city's fiscal health and providing efficient operations of our facilities. The infrastructure and recreation parks and community elements also prioritize maintenance and upgrades to meet the community's needs. The next project is the Blush Property Improvements.

Susan Michaels 5:02

This project proposes to demolish the existing residential building and replace with minimal grading, natural habitat, native plants, and modest pathways. To note its conformance, the infrastructure element notes that existing facilities should be maintained to meet the community's needs. An empty house on the edge of a verdant environment does not meet the community needs well. And this project proposes utilizing the site's natural features, maximizing native plantings, and limiting activities to those appropriate to the habitat, as noted in the recreation parks and community element.