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The hillsides of Cupertino and those of other adjoining areas are attractive targets for real estate developers seeking new high-end investment opportunities. These hillsides are protected with special zoning that restricts the intensity of housing development upon them. Real estate developers will buy or option these properties and then attempt to alter the zoning to enable much more dense housing development which then radically alters the hillside environment and harms the associated wildlife habitat. When the economy is strong, proposals for new developments of this type occur more frequently. Therefore diligence by community members to protect their vulnerable hillside resources is vitally important.
This page identifies those potential and actual threatening applications for development of the Cupertino hillsides which have become known. Check back here regularly or contact us in order to find out what threats to the hillsides have been identified and are being tracked. Please notify us of new threats by emailing us here.
Parkside Trails
The most recent threat to the Cupertino hillsides recently went away when the application for a large housing development involving extensive earthwork was withdrawn in August 2015 by Parkside Trails and Standard Pacific Homes.
This application for General Plan modification, zoning change and subdivision was within a protected hillside area. It proposed to add 18 large single family homes on a parcel for which the existing zoning and slope-density formula would allow 1 or 2 homes (depending on calculation used). The location was off Stevens Canyon Road immediately south of Ricardo Road overlooking Stevens Creek Park. Details of the application can be found here.
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