Protect the safety of our children – Speak Up Before It’s Too Late! 
🚨 What’s Happening
The City of Mountain View is slated to approve the re-zoning of 1702 & 1704 Miramonte Ave. and 777 Cuesta Dr. to allow medium-density apartments that run up within 10 feet from R1 single family homes. This intersection is problematic. The rezoning would exacerbate the existing safety and traffic issues on an already dangerous set of intersections (Sladky, Miramonte, Cuesta).   We support smart zoning which means building where the streets can handle the traffic, and kids can cross streets and bike/walk safely,  not just anywhere where currently there exists commercial zoning. We support housing where it makes sense — but this location is wrong. 

 👉 Join the movement and lend your support today!

⚠️ Why This Proposal Is the Wrong Fit

🧭 1. “Density Bonus law”  Breaks City Rules
Rezoning will create an isolated, medium-density building. EPC is recommending the zoning height gets increased to 45 feet, but the Density Bonus law would allow it to be higher and removes or reducing any parking availability requirements, reduced setbacks, reduced open space:  Up to 30 units could be built on a 0.75 acre spot, approximately 5 stories with the first floor staying commercial. 

🚗 2. Traffic & Parking Problems
 Up to 60+ new units plus increased sq ft (commercial)  = hundreds of car trips daily.
 Narrow Varsity Park streets like Tulane, Fordham, and Sladky can’t handle it. Currently traffic is already very bad. 26-32 cars every morning wait at Covington and Miramonte to turn left to St.Francis/Blach/Bullis/Mountain view HS. 
This parcel of land is NOT “near major transit”, so parking issues will be magnified from their current estimates — leading to overflow, blocked driveways, hard to turn onto Miramonte, or into Sladky, etc. and slower emergency access.

🧒 3. Student Safety at Risk
 This is a Safe Route to School for over 2,500 students traveling to Springer, Graham, Blach, MVHS, St. Francis, and Bullis South.
 Added driveways and traffic endanger children every school day.

🏪 4. Small Businesses Threatened
 Local businesses will face displacement during construction and potentially higher rents afterward, pushing out long-time community businesses. Per this Mountain view Voice article: "Many of the sites would still include a commercial component if rezoned as a Mixed-Use Village Center, according to Principal Planner Eric Anderson. But he also noted that the zoning did not require the same amount of commercial floor area, and existing tenants might not have space set aside for them to return to the new development."

🌿 5. No Site Specific Detailed Environmental or Infrastructure Study
 The city did not perform a detailed spot analysis on this site: traffic, parking, noise, shadows, water, and sewer. We have no evidence that our infrastructure can support multifamily dense housing on this parcel.

🏙️ 6. Better Sites Exist
We’re pro-smart planning. Build where there are sustainable road, traffic flows, transportation. 

7. Haven't heard of these major changes? The city isn't required to notify people past 750 feet of the affected site, but even within that radius, people had not received the distribution. 

🗣️ What You Can Do
✉️ Email City Officials
 📧 city.council@mountainview.gov
 📧 epc@mountainview.gov
 Subject: Opposition to Rezoning – Miramonte/Cuesta/Sladky intersection.
 📞 City Council Phone: (650) 903-6309

🏛️ Attend the FINAL Hearing (where City is expected to pass the rezoning as the EPC has already green lighted the proposal)
 📅 Tuesday, Dec 16 | City Hall 6:30pm
 Ask the EPC & City Council to DENY this rezoning until full safety, traffic, and environmental studies are completed with neighborhood input. 

— The Concerned Residents of the Miramonte & Tulane Neighborhood
 📍 Contact: blossom-valley-neighborhood@googlegroups.com