Permits have been submitted seeking approval of a new multi-family residential project proposed for development at 20739 Scofield Drive in Cupertino. The project proposal includes the construction of a multi-family residential building offering 23 units.
The project site is a parcel spanning an area of 0.32 acres. The scope of work includes bringing 23 residential units into a multi-family building. The project site is currently developed with a four-bedroom two-bathroom single-family residence with a two-car garage. The single-family residence will be demolished under separate permits.
An SB330 application has been filed, pending preliminary review and approval. The estimated construction timeline has not been announced yet.
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Besides being out of place in this neighborhood it will negatively impact the traffic which is already out of control. With an elementary school one block away it will be a disaster. This is totally out of place in this neighborhood.
Wow, agree with G. Mahurin — this would be terrible for the neighborhood. How many stories would be needed to cram in 23 residences on this 14k ft2 lot? Really feel sorry for those that live nearby. Next-door homeowners that someday want to sell will have trouble finding families that want to live next to this planned monstrosity, and the only willing buyers will be more investors in similar developments — and the cycle will continue. Which is of course what folks like SFYIMBY yearn for. Sad.
Completely agree with G. Mahurin. The traffic is crazy during school drop-off and pick-up on Scofield Dr.
Isn’t 20739 SCOFIELD DRIVE only zoned for Single Family Housing? Does SB330 allow zoning to be disregarded?
It’s an sfh only street, so this will be a taking – neighboring properties will have significant reduced value. This might be a watershed development which galvanizes opposition.
Significant value losses? Good. It’s freaking Cupertino for God’s sake. You guys realize this is a Yimby site right? We support development here. I support any development of this kind in Silicon Valley. Especially the epicenter of it all, Cupertino.
Your schadenfreude is noted. I appreciate sites like this for bringing attention to what’s going on in local neighborhoods. That said, not everybody is going to agree that all development is a good thing, especially when the real winners are developers and their investors. It’s easy being a YIMBY when it’s not actually in your own back yard.
I don’t understand how this can happen given the zoning of this lot. That develop would be a calamity for this neighborhood, given the proximity the Faria Schol traffic. And a total disaster for local pottery values.
Some people seem to think that allowing more housing will bring down house prices to affordable levels. The fact is that developers are not going to reduce prices. They are the real winners as they will continue to pocket huge margins.
Love how the poster above assumes I’m something or other. Note how they say, “good” – they want vengeance on property owners because they are jealous, and cloak that in a pose of justices. I would love to literally see several tens of thousands, maybe a couple of hundred thousand, of new housing units on the Peninsula. AB2011 is the way. Repurposing commercial properties, etc. Limited incursion in SFH areas. But because I might not want to see millions, I’m a “nimby.” I’m a nimby because I think people who worked to invest in a home with peace, quiet, and sunlight should get to keep that. Or get compensated. Because a 23 unit building is going to tank any neighboring properties by 20% minimum. I think this 14k sq ft lot would be fine split in two, with maybe 2 duplexes. But 23 units is insane.
Well said. I also feel repurposing dying or dead commercial properties are a good opportunity for infill housing.
This is totally insane, traffic nightmare and safety nightmare. This is not gonna be approved at all.
It’s worth checking California Yimby Form 990. Exec director salary nearly $300,000; assets over $8 million (this was back in 2021); required donor disclosure form merely reads “RESTRICTED”. Anybody wonder where the dark money comes from, and into whose pockets it goes? Any comment, Yimby?
If anyone tells me that those homeowners received a buyout and relocation assistance at anything remotely approaching market value for this area——-please provide the address of that ocean front property in Arizona that you’re selling as a side hustle?
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Stop this project. Traffic as well as such a congested building will diminish our home values and create noise and traffic pollution. I have been a resident close by from 1978 and object to this project vehemently.
Ummm, let’s say the footprint of the building area is 5 units, which is a stretch. To get 23 units you need 5 stories on a residential street frontage. I know developers always start the negotiations with pie-in-the-sky “wants” but really???? C
The school a block away is already bringing traffic–it’s not a neighborhood school where local students walk to from home. It’s an alternative school that draws students from 5 different cities. In cars. And it has been doing so since the early 1980s. Residents already know what traffic is like; this site is on the far edge of the existing traffic.
This particular site is at a dividing point between one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city and an older neighborhood. The lot itself is actually set back from other homes on the street because of the way the two neighborhoods merge. The back of the lot is a delivery alley for a big strip mall.
There are many examples of former single-family homes on the other side of this neighborhood that were demolished and turned into townhome cul-de-sacs MUCH closer to the school in question than this particular site.
These old Cupertino homes were built on huge lots that can easily accommodate multiple residences. One of the biggest challenges for this site will probably be connecting it to the city sewer system because it’s probably still on its own septic, as are most of the remaining original houses on that street.
Former chair of the Cupertino Planning Commission here…
This, like it or not, is the wave of the future. You can’t complain about the lack of affordable housing, schools closing, homeless encampments, City budget shortfalls, long commutes by car, clogged freeways, climate change, etc. if you oppose this kind of development. Densification can be attractive, livable, and of benefit to the community IF it is well designed.
Change isn’t fun for everyone – just ask the Ohlone people, the Mexican rancheros, the old orchardists, etc.
The Limbomaniacs came from Cupertino 1981