Santosh Rao

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

And the compatible adjacent use is residential.

And the residential noise definition

in the general plan is, I believe it's 10 decibel.

So I'm trying to understand what basis are we?

At that point, however, we no longer have the ability to say that it is not conformant to the general plan.

Is that right?

Okay, so I rest my case to the fellow commissioners that HS8 provides us the basis

to find that this project is not conformant with the general plan, absent a substantive baseline noise level study or any sort of modeling on how noise is attenuated when there is no wall on the western side that would allow for noise to seep or escape through on the western side.

So I will pause my question here.

So it's... And the point being made here, Chair, is absent that study, we are not ready to conclude that we are conformant with the general plan.

An alternative approach might be to require that that study occur before the project come to Planning Commission for verification of conformance.

I would actually beg to differ.

The noise study should have been a baseline noise study done on a change of use of the quartz that went from a decibel level that was far lower to what it was for pickleball.

So there could have already been a baseline noise study.

Maybe that is a question to staff.

Is that already a pre-existing baseline study of noise at this location?

So we may choose to say that without a baseline noise study, we do not have the basis to determine whether HS8 is found to be confirmed or not.

Question to the vice chair, would you entertain a friendly amendment to your motion to exclude the pickleball sound detonation from your proposed motion?

Are there amendments to this motion that you might think of that will provide the commission more leeway and checks and balances on the level of conformance to the findings that are noise?

No.

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