An update on the proposed Costco Warehouse proposed for West San Jose:
We have until February 20th to submit feedback and concerns on proposed Westgate Costco Warehouse. Go to savewestvalley.org/costco-feedback now to submit your feedback
This Warehouse is inappropriate for the proposed site: It is an oversized development on an undersized site with insufficient road service. It is planned to be located right next to a high school, elementary school, senior center, and right in the front yards of longtime residents.
Join us in San Jose for community meetings to learn about the project and how you can submit your feedback:
- Thursday, February 1, 6PM at Prospect HS, Room 30
- Thursday, February 15, 6PM at Prospect HS, Room 30
Plus join a community meeting on the project with San Jose Vice Mayor Kamei, Monday, February 5, 6PM at Prospect HS, Room 30
We now know more about the plan:
- The Costco Warehouse will generate over 11,000 car trips a day to the site. That's 18 times the traffic that is there today! The site is where hundreds of students from the local High School adjacent to the site are dropped off and picked up every day and where the school's cross country team runs every day.
- Construction of the Costco Warehouse will bulldoze existing local businesses including a Goodwill store that benefitted the community and a supermarket that served the community and businesses all in favor of a store that requires a paid membership to enter.
- Costco is the largest alcohol distributor in the US. They sell over $5 billion of beer, wine, and liquor annually. They will be located in a shopping center that already has a BevMo alcohol superstore, a supermarket that sells beer and wine, and three other stores that sell alcohol. Costco will put the area well over San Jose's alcohol seller density limit.
- The Warehouse has no solar panels or energy storage plans.
- Construction will dig up and put into the air decades of toxins from under the ground of a muffler and car repair shop and a dry cleaner.
Now is the time for you to submit your feedback to the city of San Jose!
Go to savewestvalley.org/costco-feedback now to submit your feedback. Email info@savewestvalley.org with any questions
Thank you!