Thank you for Hugh Biggar's article on Toll Brothers/Vallco development referendums in the June 14 issue. The number of condos actually proposed along the quarter-mile Stevens Creek corridor, including the 137 multi-story variety the city council approved for Macy's back parking lot, is actually 1,000, not 100.

The Godzilla-quashes-Bambi lawsuit brought by Toll Brothers and Vallco against two young moms--one with a toddler--apparently is meant to stop the groundswell grassroots movement against haphazard rezoning from retail/commercial to very lucrative housing in Cupertino.

All these young women did to deserve this hellacious treatment is exercise their rights in a democracy by signing off on petitions signed by 20 percent of the registered voters in Cupertino--10,000 in all, as they were handed off to the city clerk.

It seems the city council majority, contrary to the wishes of their constituents, decided to hold the election a year sooner, as was requested so folks could see the massive scope of runaway overdevelopment as it changes the landscape, overcrowds schools and causes traffic jams.

For a preview of things to come, look at the high-density multi-story housing going up near Tantau on Stevens Creek and multiply until you hit 1,000. Condotino is alive and growing. Speak up now.

Ruby Elbogen
Cupertino Courier
Wednesday, June 28, 2006