Newsletter issues #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7

What's New?

• On April 22, 2008, the City Council accepted the Coyote Valley Task Force’s work and directed the General Plan Update 2040 Task Force to ensure that Coyote Valley is included in its citywide consideration of the jobs-housing holding capacity, with no change to the prerequisite conditions, and to assume that North Coyote will be built out under the existing entitlements. 

  Materials from the Council meeting on 4/22/08 can be found at the following link (Agenda Item #4.3).

  Please click the following links for a synopsis of the Council action and the Memo from Mayor Reed and Council members Liccardo, Pyle and Williams.

• On March 18, 2008, the Coyote Housing Group (CHG) terminated it agreement with the City to fund the preparation of the CVSP.  Because of this termination, and incomplete environmental analysis, it is not possible for the City Council to adopt the project as a specific plan.  However, the large body of work developed to date is of sufficient detail that it is being refashioned into a vision plan entitled the “Coyote Valley Plan – A Vision for Sustainable Development”.  The CVP vision is based on work by the Task Force, community stakeholders, City staff and a multi-disciplinary team of consultants.  It contains a land use plan and text designed to create a vibrant, pedestrian and transit-oriented mixed-use community in North and Mid-Coyote, consistent with the City Council Vision and Expected Outcomes.  As a vision document it does not meet the statutory requirements of a specific plan.  However it contains solid baseline information for any future comprehensive planning effort in Coyote Valley. 

Full Text of the Coyote Valley Plan: A Vision for Sustainable Development:

• Cover and Table of Contents
• Section 1: Plan Overview
• Section 2: Context: Opportunities and Constraints
• Section 3: Guiding Principles for Coyote Valley
• Section 4: Major Plan Elements/Urban Structure
• Section 5: Land Use and Urban Design
• Section 6: Street and Circulation Systems
• Section 7: Community Facilities and Services
• Section 8: Infrastructure and Utilities
• Section 9: Hillsides and Greenbelt Strategies
• Section 10: Implementation
• Appendices & Glossary
• Fold-out Maps
• Executive Summary of the Coyote Valley Plan: A Vision for Sustainable Development

• The Gavilan College Draft EIR is available at the following link. Information on availability of the document and public comments may be found at this link.
  
  
• City Council EIR Information Memo, distributed to the City Council on October 18, 2007.
  
  
• Update on Construction Activity in North Coyote Valley

• On June 26, 2007 the City Council adopted the Mayor's memo. The City Council directed staff to "continue work on the CVSP and the EIR assuming existing Prerequisite Conditions (triggers)".

• Please click on the link to access General Plan Update web site.

• DEIR Circulation/Comments:

• Please click on this link to review the CVSP DEIR.

• Please click on the following link to access the REVISED Notice of Availability (NOA) for the CVSP DEIR.  Please note that the initial 60-day public review period (March 30, 2007 to June 1, 2007) for the CVSP DEIR was extended to June 29, 2007.  During this time the City of San Jose accepted comments on the document.
  • Revised Notice of Availability (NOA)
  • Comments Received on the DEIR

• Please click on the following link to access the information memo to City Council on issues raised by the public in their comments on the CVSP DEIR.
  • Memo to City Council on Comments Received on CVSP DEIR

• To view the revised updated CVSP property access map please click here.

• All volumes of the Coyote Valley Specific Plan Draft EIR are available in paper (while supplies last) and/or CD format and can be obtained by contacting Jared Hart at (408) 535-7904.

• Initial Draft Coyote Valley Specific Plan
  
  Please click on this link to review the Initial Draft Coyote Valley Specific PlanThe Initial Draft was presented and discussed at the CVSP Task Force Meetings on December 11, 2006 and at the City Council Study Session on December 15, 2006, and at the Community Meeting on January 11, 2007. Please feel free to send us any comments you have on the Initial Draft. Please contact us if you would like to obtain a CD of the Initial Draft at 535-7899.
  
  
• To view the CVSP Water Supply Evaluation report and additional documents please click here.
  
  
• If you have comments, questions or suggestions regarding the CVSP, please direct them to any of the staff members who will be happy to assist you (Please do not contact consultants directly as they will not respond to you).

  Land Planning

  • Salifu Yakubu, Principal Planner (408) 535-7911 or salifu.yakubu@sanjoseca.gov
  • Susan Walsh, Senior Planner (408) 535-7910 or susan.walsh@sanjoseca.gov

• View the working draft of the Planning Area Detail Appendix.

  A disk of the document is available upon request in the planning department. Please contact Regina Mancera at 535-7899 or e-mail her at regina.mancera@sanjoseca.gov.
  

• View the draft CVSP Fiscal Impact Analysis report.
  
  Appendices to the Fiscal Impact Analysis:
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Appendix D
• Appendix E
  

Please note that these documents are created in Adobe Acrobat PDF. If you do not have your free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download it here.

• For information regarding the South County Circulation Study, please contact:
            Casey Emoto, VTA transportation engineering manager
            (408) 321-5564
            casey.emoto@vta.org
  
  
• View the current CVSP conceptual land use plan and other plans.This land use plan is currently being refined.
  
  
• Access the Greenbelt Research Report and conceptual Greenbelt Strategy.
  
  
• View the latest issue of the Coyote Valley Vision newsletter.
• View meeting materials and progress reports from previous City Council, Task Force, and EIR meetings.
  
  
• Find out about the population densities of selected North American cities.

 

 

Last Updated:
April 25, 2008