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Residents urge council to pause Summerhill/Evelich housing projects after CAL FIRE redraws hazard zones
Summary
Multiple residents told Cupertino's council during oral communications that newly updated CAL FIRE maps and recent wildfires make high-density projects near Linda Vista and Evelich Court unsafe; they urged a pause for environmental and evacuation studies and said insurance availability is already a problem.
Dozens of residents used the City Council's public-comment period on March 4 to urge the council to pause proposed housing projects in and near the Linda Vista and Evelich Court areas after recent CAL FIRE updates placed those neighborhoods in a "very high" fire-hazard zone.
Speakers described new county maps they said were updated in February and warned of constrained evacuation routes, greater likelihood of insurance cancellation, and what they called a mismatch between state housing requirements and local fire risks.
Key remarks from public comment included: - Ahmad Yazdi described the CAL FIRE map and said residents had many concerns about re-zoning that would…
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