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Residents press council to study highway noise, request coordination with VTA and Caltrans
Summary
Multiple residents told the council about high noise from Highway 280 and SR‑85 openings in sound walls and urged the city to add noise to the general plan health and safety chapter, to press VTA and Caltrans for mitigation, and to study health impacts.
Several Cupertino residents spoke during oral communications on July 15 to describe persistent and loud highway noise affecting neighborhoods near State Route 280 and other corridors and asked the council to treat noise as a health and safety issue in the upcoming general plan update.
Speakers described noise levels they said ranged from the mid‑60s up to peaks above 80–90 decibels in some spot readings taken by neighbors. Peggy Griffin, who…
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