Title
Subject: Municipal Code Amendments to adopt glazing and lighting regulations to implement the Fiscal Year 2019/20 City Council Work Program items related to Dark Sky and Bird-Safe Design. (Application No. MCA-2019-003 and MCA-2019-004; Applicant: City of Cupertino; Location: City-wide)
Recommended Action
That the City Council conduct the first reading of Ordinance No 21-2225 “An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Cupertino Amending City Code to add 19.102: Glass and Lighting Standards and to Amend Chapter 19.40 Residential Hillside (RHS) Zones, Chapter 19.60 General Commercial (GC) Zones, Chapter 19.72 Light Industrial (ML) and Industrial Park (MP) Zones, and Chapter 19.124 Parking Regulations to Implement Bird-safe and Dark Sky Policies.” (Attachment A) which includes a finding that the proposed actions are exempt from CEQA.
As an alternative to conducting the first reading, the City Council could conduct the second reading of Ordinance No. 20-2219, the Bird-safe only regulations, to implement previously introduced regulations (Attachment B), which includes a finding that the proposed actions are exempt from CEQA. Subsequently, the Council could conduct the first reading of the Dark Sky regulations, to incorporate dark sky regulations into the Bird-safe only Ordinance (Attachment C), which also includes a finding that the proposed actions are exempt from CEQA.