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Cupertino narrows proposed SB 9-era single-family rules; council sends select items back to planning commission
Summary
After a multi-hour discussion, the City Council voted to remove two proposed front-entry and garage standards from a draft municipal-code update to comply with SB 450 and referred those provisions back to the Planning Commission for further study.
Cupertino's City Council on Wednesday moved forward with most changes to the municipal code meant to align local single-family development rules with state law (SB 9 and SB 450), but the council removed two design items and asked the Planning Commission to reconsider them.
The council's action preserves a broad set of objective standards staff proposed to bring the city into compliance with SB 450, which limits how a city may treat developments created under the state's SB 9 duplex and lot-split program. Staff said the changes update Title 18 and chapters 19.28 and 19.40 to apply previously SB 9-only rules to equivalent R-1 and RHS development and to clarify definitions and objective criteria.
Emmy Sugiyama, senior…
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