A. General. Individual use permit requests for development of facilities in the FP zone shall be subject to application of performance standards. The performance standards and potential mitigation strategies listed in Section 19.96.080C shall:
1. Serve as guidelines applied by the Planning Commission and City Council in a manner which best accomplishes the intent of the FP zone;
2. Ensure adequate mitigation of potentially detrimental impacts associated with a specific use in a specific location.
B. Priority of Recreational Development. The City Council may approve a private recreational use which is found to be inconsistent with any minimum performance standard stated in this chapter upon finding that:
1. There is an offsetting factor of need for that use;
2. The use is of interest to residents of Cupertino over uses which draw from a regional area.
C. Impact Mitigation Standards. The following chart shall be used to determine the level of performance appropriate to each category in which one or more significant impacts may occur to adjoining property and/or to the community at large as a result of any new or expanded use in the FP zone. The City may impose specific mitigation strategies as conditions of use permit approval to ensure compliance with the general performance standards, except as noted in Section 19.96.080B above:
Performance Standards
Category | Criteria |
Noise. | 1. General Standards - Adjoining properties shall be protected from noise levels exceeding noise ordinance standards 2. Potential Mitigation Strategies - Provide physical barrier between noise source and sensitive receptor - Limit hours of operation - Prepare noise report describing detailed mitigation solutions |
Traffic. | 1. General Standard - Conform to extraordinary use policy for uses located in urban settings - Maintain existing LOS for nonurban street system locations 2. Potential Mitigation Strategies - Prepare traffic report to ensure compliance with current standards - Provide off-site roadway capacity improvements - Limit hours of operation or peak hour activity |
Intrusion. | 1. General Standard - Adjoining properties shall not be subject to intrusion from dust, odor, direct visual access or glare from artificial lighting 2. Potential Mitigation Strategies - Provide visual barrier between activity area and adjoining properties - Specify cleanup interval for waste removal/dust control - Control ventilation of fossil fuels and other combustibles - Employ shielded lighting fixtures near roadways, homes or parks |
Landscape. | 1. General Standards - Provide extensive landscaping for functional and decorative purposes where context so demands - Maintain and enhance natural landscape elements in rural and hillside areas 2. Potential Mitigation Strategies - Use street frontage landscaping to reinforce neighborhood setting (setbacks, plant types, tree spacing) - Use interior perimeter landscaping to control visual intrusion, separate conflicting uses, offset large impervious surface areas - Preserve healthy native tree specimens, especially oaks and redwoods - Select plant palette to complement natural materials and landforms - Minimize disturbance of natural grade; avoid exaggerated pad elevations |
Context. | 1. General Standards - Project design should complement the principal activity objective for the site's geographic setting 2. Potential Mitigation Strategies - Rural Context. Preserve hillsides as quiet residential and open space areas - Semirural Context. Preserve delicate natural ecology of floodplain and lower foothills - Urban Context. Maximize recreation potential where population is most highly concentrated |
(Ord. 2085, § 2 (part), 2011; Ord. 1601, Exh. A (part), 1992)