Santosh Rao

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Cupertino Planning Commission · Planning Commission April 28,2026 - Apr 28, 2026 · 28 Apr 2026 meeting

Because there are residential limits, there's construction decibel limits, there's leaf blower limits, there's interior noise.

So which one are we to look at?

Through the chair, the health and safety element has very detailed policies around what

is the decibel ranges to which noise is considered acceptable.

And I draw your attention to 6-36 of the health and safety element.

And you will see that there's ranges for different types of land use categories.

So specifically, if you apply the residential category here, because that is the adjacent land use,

there are decibel ranges to what is acceptable.

Therefore, these points are important to establish whether this project will actually attenuate sound or noise to a level where the project is considered acceptable.

Failing that, a valid finding is that the project cannot show that this is in fact acceptable.

meeting the criteria that is defined in the general plan for the defined land use.

So I urge my fellow commissioners to look at the health and safety element and look at 6-36.

6-36.

Yeah, through the chair, I just wanna make the same point that staff member just made, which is that the purpose of checks and balances to evaluate conformance to the general plan is in fact

so that the planning commission may do its role to be able to recommend where a project may not be conformant to the general plan, that it not move forward.

And therefore, this is not a check the box exercise.

The planning commission actually has certain powers to be able to recommend that certain things may not be conformant to the general plan.

And I think part of that is the question of why the health and safety element has not been considered.

I think we need an answer to that.

Can I ask Director Mosley or Ms.

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