City Council and Authorities Concurrent - Regular Meeting

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

NVIDIA presented updates on its new campus project, focusing on addressing community feedback regarding views, noise, lighting, and traffic. The project team detailed design changes and mitigation strategies in response to concerns raised by residents.

About this meeting

Government Body
City Council and Authorities Concurrent
Meeting Type
City Council And Authorities Concurrent
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Meeting Date
June 24, 2026

Transcript

61 sections

0:03 – 1:12Speaker 1

Okay. Well, good evening, everyone. Thanks for coming. My name is Patrick Flynn. I'm a Senior Vice President at Ellis Partners. We are partnered with NVIDIA on this project, as well as Gensler and DEVCON. Ryan Trinidad with NVIDIA is going to join. He got caught up in meetings, so apologies. But tonight ostensibly is to follow up on a community meeting that we held back in January. We got a lot of great feedback. I've met with some neighbors since that meeting, but we've been working with the city on our application. And really, we just wanted this to be a forum to show some of the things that we did or are proposing in response to the feedback we received. So in many ways, tonight is going to be a quick recap of some of the work or some of the presentation we did back in January. And then I'll come back up and speak through some of the things that we're doing to reflect on the feedback we received. Thanks, Patrick.

1:15 – 6:26Speaker 6

Yeah, we are very grateful. To be here for second time to share progress of the media center mass business park south campus project right, as you can see from this area renderings yeah. oops i'm sorry. There you go sorry about that, as you can see from this area renderings the proposed building sits fits seamlessly with the surrounding buildings that we previously designed creating cohesive campus experience. As Patrick mentioned, since this is our second meeting with you will begin with a brief recap of the what we presented last time. And we also received great valuable feedback from the community meeting, which has helped inform and shape the design and which will share the progress as well. Then lastly, we'd like to hear new concerns if you have any. So that's our agenda for today's meeting. Quick recap here. This property includes an office building. three levels plus mezzanine level up to 692 square feet building and the FAR 1.0. And then we're putting a little over 2000 car stalls. And then also part of this development is the pedestrian bridge over across Walsh Avenue is included. As you can see here from the most left building to the center building, there's a bridge over Walsh. That's part of this development. And then also something that we like about this previous design we're keeping it to to cohesively design it together with existing buildings yeah so you can see here we have two diagrams here the left diagram is what's their existing condition what's there now and the right diagram is proposed design the left side as you can see here there are currently there's 12 buildings, small buildings. I think square from I'm going to go back. Yeah, covers site coverage currently is 35%. But proposed design is slightly over 40%. As you can see here on the right hand side, we're trying to have three kind of design principles. One is As we mentioned earlier, architecture that feels naturally connected so that it sits nicely with existing buildings. And then secondly, we want to create a new welcoming landmark at that corner of Walsh and San Tomas. And then also the very lively and the active facade design, which we'll cover in next slides. So first one, this one highlights the materials geometry. We are keeping what we really like. It's a part of that is the roof design is instead of looking at large buildings of a flat roof, we are keeping triangle roofs so you can create a dynamic roof texture that fits really nicely with the mountain as a background, as a backdrop. Even the materials, the material materials, glass materials, metal material and concrete, we are keeping them on new buildings, new developments. This view is taken from San Tomas, looking back towards Walsh Corner. So this is a recognizable and very welcoming landmark we're trying to create. This is gonna become new front door for the community. Some quick circular site circulations. We do have ingress, egress from the Walsh, and then we only have ingress from St. Thomas that you can see from this corner right here. This is the St. Thomas Expressway. There's new ingress that we are creating, we're putting, and then we have ingress, egress from the Walsh. Three levels of parking. One thing to note is one level is at gray, and then we have two levels below the gray. So total of three levels of parking. And then also three levels, L1, L2, L3, and then we have a mezzanine level within the building, which is covered in triangle. The last page is the new entry. It's facing the center mosque. So this is part of the design principle where we want to create a very lively and active exterior facade. And I think, Patrick, you will kind of go from here. And we got some great feedback from community meeting first one. We have these four bulletin points. And then Patrick will hear.

6:31 – 10:41Speaker 1

So last time we heard a lot of concern, questions, interests. So we'll just go through these. So one of the items was just wanting to see views from the neighborhood, from the adjacent neighborhood to the south, Roosevelt Circle. And Gensler pulled these together here. This is taken from Roosevelt Circle looking north. to what on the left is what the current condition is, and on the right is the building that we're proposing. And then, likewise, on Alvarado Drive, this is a view looking kind of northwest, but the same with the building in the background. This, I think, is a helpful view to show just how setback from How much of a separation there is when you look at just the rendered views, the building does seem to be close. When you see it in section like this with the Caltrain tracks and then our setback from the property line, it really illustrates how much further to the north our project is from the residences to the south. And then this is a site diagram that Gensler did in response to some questions we got about potential screening of the south facade of the building. So this facade here on this edge here is the south facade. What you'll see is we've got view triangles from folks that might be standing in the backyard on Alvarado or on Roosevelt. what the separation is from Caltrain, and then how big of a setback our building is here. One of the things that we're dealing with as it relates to planting the southern edge of our property line is that Silicon Valley Power has easements that run along our south property edge. And so what you'll see here is we've got utility easements that limit any construction or not any construction, any construction over 15 feet, including trees. And so really from within this, within this utility easement area, we cannot plant trees. And then within this additional setback area here, we can't have branches. So it really precluded, it really impacted our ability to plant trees along that South edge. And in fact, limits it because we also have to have this EVA roadway as emergency vehicle access. So it's fire truck access around the perimeter of the building. So we looked at what it would mean to build a fence. And the reality is a fence isn't going to help with views. We looked at planting trees. The power lines preclude us from being able to build trees. We did this section to show, you know, one of, there was concern about the, one of our requests is for part of the building will go to 124 feet, where 100 feet is standard in the district. That 124 foot height will never be seen from the residences. When you're standing here, the building, the leading building edge at our Southern property line, it's an undulating roof, varies from 60 to 70 feet. And that view cuts off your ability to see that max building height, which you see here, which occurs, you know, 465 feet from our property line, in addition to the 165 foot CalTrain right away. So we're, you know, over 600 feet away from that southern property line is, or from the northern property line of a resident in the residential neighborhood here is that peak height area.

10:42Speaker 6

This is why from residential rendering that you don't see the roof from the residential area.

10:51 – 15:54Speaker 1

So one of the next issues we had, our concerns were raised was just about sounds and beeping and whatnot. There are two issues at play. One is sounds during construction. The second one is sounds for parking garage entry on the south edge of our building. We can't do anything about construction sound other than complying with the city's noise ordinances. OSHA, which is responsible for maintaining worker safety, has strict requirements on audible noises for backing up trucks. So we can work with our contractor partners during construction to ensure that they're not on, you know, the construction noise is obviously within the allowable range, but then also the backing up and beeping. What we can do to turn that down, but we have to be mindful of worker safety. But what we can do is relative to the parking entry on the south edge of the building, as it stands now, we don't believe that there's any code requirement for... We'll have a gate on that parking garage. There's no code requirement that would trigger us to have... a garage door or flashing or beeping. ADA often requires it. In our condition, we don't believe it to be required, so we're committed to not having it be installed. So then on to another concern, which was about lighting and the perception of the building being too bright at night is what we heard. um in response to that we've gone back um we've lowered the site lighting poles so there's site lighting around the exterior of the building we've lowered that from 30 feet to 20 feet that requires us to put in some additional poles um but it would limit it'll limit the view of those poles from off-site um additionally The interior of the building will have occupancy sensors that dim to 50% of light when the space is unoccupied. Folks that are working there late can come in and hit the button and manually override that to turn the lights on bright, but it limits that to 30 minutes. So if they come in and hit the button and work there for two hours, they'll have to keep moving their arms. It's the sort of thing where you sit in a conference room and it goes dark, you got to wave your arms. It'll be a similar item to that. And then what we're also willing to do is set up the building shades on that south facade to automatically lower at dark. What that does is it cuts down, building shades are typically used to cut down sunlight admittance. We're doing this to prevent our artificial light from going outside. And so What we did is we had one of our engineers, a daylighting consultant, go and take photos of the existing building. So the existing building, the Endeavor building, which is at the corner of Santa Mas and Walsh, they took photos of the existing building at dark, at full brightness of light. So this is not even the 50% dimming that I'm already mentioning. And what they did, these true color and false color images, the true color is what you see. And the false color is an inversion of that to show relative brightness, which is the scale on the right. So a darker color or the reds mean that it's very bright. And then that as it goes towards blue, it's a very dim. So as you can see at the top, this is 100% occupancy with all of the interior lights on and the shades up. It's very bright, and it's something that Charlie mentioned at the last meeting. You can see it. There was a high level of concern about how bright it was. When you go and drop the shades, you see that significant drop in brightness. So these greens, yellows, oranges all go away. And you get some lighter blues through here. There's triangles where you can't make triangle shades, unfortunately. So there will be some peaks of lighting that we can't affect. But this is... with the lights at 100 occupancy with the shades drop so we believe that this will go a long way to address the concerns that were raised relative to um you know light leaking off-site so that's what we've got today um that was as i said at the beginning that was what you know in response to the feedback we heard but now um I see some familiar faces. I'm happy to hear from you. Or if there's also some new faces, please feel free to go up to the dais and it's now just open forum. And if you're on Zoom, you can type your questions into the chat and my colleague Austin will read them out and then we can we can address them as well.

16:03Speaker 7

Oh, ma'am, if you could speak into the microphone, so those at home can hear you. Because it's a hybrid meeting. Thank you.

16:31 – 21:30Speaker 1

She's asking which building is the new building. So if I may, this was the first building that was developed Endeavor. So this is the corner of Walsh and San Tomas here. Endeavor and Voyager are built and are there. This building back here is under construction right now. This, we refer to as Starbase. And so the building that we're talking about here tonight is this building here. Yes, this is the housing here to the south. You'll be able to see it from the homes. And that was one of the questions that was raised in a desire to see these rendered views, to see how you will see it. Yes, that was the concerns about views that were raised. Well, you can tell us how you feel, and we can do what we can do. I mean, you have rights to talk to us about it, and then we have property rights to build on the property. And so what we're... No. But you can... Well, I mean, to be fair... This pink zoning here is the allowable bulk and mass zoning. So another project could come in and be built much taller at that Southern property edge and much closer to it. We've pushed the building back, the leading edge of our roof. And so what you're really perceiving is much lower. So we're 60 to 70 feet instead of the allowable 100 feet. Pardon? I recognize that it's a change, and it's a change from what's there. Okay, thank you for your comment. I don't know of a study, no. Please. Well, our work, what I can say is our work will be beholden to pretty standard conditions of approval for construction hours, noise, dust, parking. It will be one of it. And then as it relates to that, there will be phone number for the project manager on site from DevCon who is managing the construction as well as city staff. And so that, that, what, When I spoke earlier about what you can and can't do, these are the issues that you can raise and the concerns you can raise because these items like the screening, the beeping, all of those items are things that we will embed in our conditions of approval that run with the project. So it is what you can do to influence how the project is constructed and then operates in perpetuity.

21:33Speaker 7

Would you please speak into the microphone? Thank you.

21:44Speaker 1

I'm happy to chat with staff and see what we can do about that, yes.

22:12Speaker 1

Sure, thank you. hi charlie so there's going to be

22:46Speaker 11

There's nothing we can do to stop it.

23:13Speaker 8

Which is it going to be?

23:18Speaker 10

They can afford it.

24:00 – 24:38Speaker 1

I don't think that was. So I apologize if we can.

24:39 – 26:12Speaker 4

Well, I know the area. My mother used to live in Roosevelt. She bought a house there when they were built in 1968, I believe. My two thoughts that I have going on regarding the property values, the property values, eventually after a couple of years after it's built, It's going to increase because a lot of the homes around that area, the property values have increased because NVIDIA is close by. It will. You'll see it. It will. In my area, there it has. Now, my concern is with the construction, DEVCON. You're right, actually behind, you know, right in front of some of the backyards and some of the homes in that area, not just Roosevelt and Alvarado and Cimarron, but also the other South Park and so on. The wind comes from the north. You're going to have, when the other construction was being done, and also when they built the data center just down the road, dust, you hear the pounding. This goes to DevCon, boom, boom, when they put the pillars in. That is really intrusive noise during the day. Some people may work during the day, but some people may not work during the day. They may be at night listening to all this. But my concern, too, is all that dust and all the dirt flying, You know, you get your house dirty, you can't open any windows because all that is going on. So that's my main concern. What are you willing to do to compensate the residents in that area when that starts to happen?

26:12Speaker 1

Because it will happen. 100% that it will happen.

26:16 – 26:53Speaker 4

If maybe Brent wants to come up and speak. I believe in DevCom. DevCom is a very good company. 100%. A lot of the projects they've done, they've done an excellent job. They're all over the valley, so... I trust them, but I hope that they will try to minimize the inconvenience to the residents in the area. And at the same time, it comes back to NVIDIA because you're hiring them to compensate in case of any, you know, houses are, you know, say, for instance, some of the houses just painted or put some things or they open up the windows, bingo, they're going to get all this compensation. dirt flying into their homes.

26:54 – 27:13Speaker 1

There's pretty strict requirements for dust mitigation during construction that if it's not being, basically if you're getting dust blown across Caltrain onto your property, then DEVCON's not doing their job. And you can call the city and you can call DEVCON.

27:13 – 27:54Speaker 4

Well, we don't want to... You know how long it takes to go through the city, to go through... Let's try to figure a way before you start this construction. Let's make this a model for future type of constructions that you're going to be doing that close to residential areas, this mass production... I welcome NVIDIA expanding projects. Those are tax dollars that will be coming to our city. Instead of putting a data center there, they're actually expanding their campus. So I really, you know, I'm happy to see that part there. So I want to see more businesses coming to Santa Clara to increase our tax revenue, not data centers, but more houses. Thank you. Great.

28:01 – 31:16Speaker 1

Questions in the chat? Please, sir. We would, yeah, I expect it'll be, we still have a little bit of a road ahead of us before we break ground. From which direction? Coming north on St. Tomas and making a left. Yeah, so we have a pretty, we're going through a traffic study As part of our entitlement process, and we will be making changes to all of the intersection at Santa Mas and Walsh to improve the level of service so that level of service is effectively how long you have to wait to make a turn or make a turning movement. So there will be some changes to the striping and to the signal timing in order to improve that. We're working with the county as it relates to bike lanes in the district. So because of the off-ramp that we're planning to construct off of southbound Santa Mas, we're working with the county to plan some bike lane improvements in the area. I mean, it's difficult because the trail itself is on land controlled by Valley Water. Valley Water's mission is not bike and pedestrian, and their focus is on stormwater control and the waterways. We've not had specific conversations with Valley Water about improvements to the trail there. But like I said, we are talking with the county about overall city improvements.

31:18 – 31:36Speaker 3

I was just going to also mention that we're also constructing bike lane improvements along Walsh from northwestern to Scott in line with the city's active transportation plan, which furthers the kind of bike connectivity in the area.

31:40 – 32:33Speaker 1

Yeah, if you come to the dais. Valley Water controls, they have a right of way through the path. That basically where the waterway is and then where the path is, is Valley Water controlled property. Yes, yes. That's Valley Water, yes. Which is a regional, it's not Silicon Valley, it's just Valley Water. They control that full width they have the pedestrian and bike path on the west side of the creek and on the east side they use that for maintenance.

32:36Speaker 7

And so people online are still having trouble hearing so if anyone else has comments or questions i'm going to hand you this Mike because they said they can hear this Michael up better.

32:53Speaker 1

Rebecca, you may want to mute that one so you don't get feedback or crossover or something.

33:00 – 34:45Speaker 2

Good evening. Thank you to NVIDIA and project team for hosting this meeting. My name is Gupreet. I'm here on behalf of Silicon Valley community. We are renting property in a way where the new project is going to start. We do acknowledge that nvidia is investing into santa clara and positive impact for the jobs not for home but for the jobs yes and future growth and we do not oppose the project but there are few concerns that we want to bring it to you and few of the things that you said in the meeting on feedback as of that um as a non-profit we serve two to three hundred people every day uber drivers who don't have Either they don't get to have food during the day or they don't get to go to the bathrooms or take breaks. We also have services for elderly who walk around and come to the service. We have been trying to get in touch with somebody in NVIDIA for the last six months to see if we can extend our pay so that our new building, we are getting the permission from the city. They're saying people can get in touch with you guys if something goes wrong. For six months, we are on the property. We are getting to your leasing department to get us to in touch. The only email we get back, we're going to have a walkthrough. When can we have the walkthrough? No other sentence. And I can show you 16 emails back and forth. No other sentence in there. And when you're telling residents over here that they can get in touch or we can get in touch, that's an example.

34:47 – 35:01Speaker 1

why don't you talk to me afterwards we had some uh we had some building uh folks that are in the existing buildings at our last meeting we've we met with them after the meeting we were able to um address their concerns so why don't you come see me afterwards

35:18 – 35:37Speaker 11

Can I just say one more thing? Sure. Sorry. I know I beat it to death how I oppose this, but all the construction and all the noise that's going to take place, I can deal with all that. That's going to be a nuisance. The biggest nuisance is going to be this big structure for the rest of my time living there.

35:51 – 36:18Speaker 3

The question from Zoom is, is there any way a new station for Caltrans can be installed at the NVIDIA building? NVIDIA should pay for this due to the tremendous amount of traffic to be taxing the roads in the vicinity of Santa Mas and other feeder roads such as Scott Boulevard. I live in Santa Clara Square for seven years and the traffic is becoming unbearable. This is no doubt due to NVIDIA parking lots overflowing onto the roadways.

36:20 – 36:41Speaker 1

I can say that we've reached out to Caltrain to investigate the potential. Nothing has been set, but it's also worth noting that Caltrain is looking at potentially shutting stations. So I think us asking them to add one is gonna be difficult. Sonata, did you have?

36:46 – 38:22Speaker 8

Hey everyone, my name is Donata. Glad to see some familiar faces. Patrick wanted to just again thank you and acknowledge that you all have really gone out of your way to, you know, try to accommodate us and I appreciate the communication with us regarding various facets of our concerns, and especially I love the fact that you guys are going to do something about the lighting that is huge. I think that's really, really cool. Obviously, the big structure will still be in your backyard, Charlie. And you're not so concerned about, again, the noise. But the noise to me is still the biggest concern. And just like Kim and Brenda went through, again, the whole AT&T ordeal where, again, the trucks were literally coming down our street. and parking there and the beeping. And I've told you about the beeping. The beeping is going to drive me nuts and I will probably end up in a state asylum when this thing is over. But you mentioned that there really isn't anything that can be done about the beeping, because again, I understand that protects the workers. But again, the construction hours of what's allowed in Santa Clara, I was looking again online at 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and Saturdays 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. I'm going to lose my mind with the beeping. And I really wonder if you could at least. start at 8am instead of 7am. Okay, because again, we work from our home offices. And especially again, in the summertime, our windows are open, we can we can hear the noise.

38:22Speaker 10

And again, I know, maybe not so concerned about the noise.

38:25Speaker 8

But I know some of us are concerned about the noise. If there's anything that you can do about the noise, that would be really, really awesome. Thank you.

38:33Speaker 1

Thank you. Okay, any more questions on Zoom, Austin?

38:45 – 39:06Speaker 5

Oh, yeah, please. Hi, guys, my name is . I'm with the Silicon Valley Santa Clara Sea Community Camp. I just have one question for you. Hopefully, everything goes according to your plan, and that is what we want for you too, right? When do you guys plan to start the construction and the demolition of the site? I don't know if you guys already covered it. I was a little late, so apologies for that.

39:06 – 39:27Speaker 1

We would start in Q1 of 2027. There'd be activities that start in Q4 of this year, so in the fall here. But assuming everything goes to schedule with the city, we would start some abatement work and light demo work in the existing structures, and then full construction would start in Q1.

39:27Speaker 5

So even if everything goes as per your plan, you guys do not plan to do anything for the next six months?

39:36 – 39:50Speaker 1

It would be, we would start within the next three to four months. I mean, it all, it will depend on our work with the city. But it would be, we hope to start in the fall. So not in November or December, but earlier if possible.

39:50Speaker 5

Next year, right?

39:51Speaker 1

No, in this year. Okay.

39:54Speaker 5

Thank you, guys. Thank you.

40:00Speaker 1

Q1. So January, February, March of 2027.

40:06 – 40:19Speaker 10

Sorry, I do have one more question. Okay. I think you mentioned this, but somebody said something about Apple and they had a neighbor where they built the, you know, big Apple building.

40:20Speaker 8

They did a beautiful job of putting plants around it.

40:24 – 40:35Speaker 10

You can't even see it. So I'm just wondering, at least as a backdrop, would you say we can't plant trees and let the trees be the backdrop instead of

40:36 – 41:43Speaker 1

big massive building what we we cannot plant trees if you look here I'm sorry if you look here this area right through here this green space we cannot plant trees Silicon Valley power has high voltage power lines that run parallel to the Caltrain track along this edge and prevent us from planting trees and this road is required to be there for emergency vehicle access to get around the building. We are planting trees further to the southeast. All of this will be planted with new trees all through here. So this southeast view of the building will be shaded or screened by trees. And then we do have, sorry, we do have trees on the west side here as well. It's only this southwest section of the site where we're not able to plant due to the Silicon Valley power lines.

41:47 – 44:24Speaker 6

Many of the houses there, yes. Just one note here is this pink dash line represent property line. And then we have this corner here. I don't know whether this rendering, sometimes it's really hard to see the building looks through the renderings. But this corner, there is no building in this corner. So building, even though we have this land here, this is a parking lot, meaning there won't be any building. So building footprints-wise, it starts right from here to that corner only. And then it turns. Therefore, it's that facade, the building wall, It's peeled away from. So I don't know where your house is. But however, what we are highlighting here is that, yes, there is this facial. They're facing the residents. That's the section that we cut through this section. That we Patrick walk you through is coming through the building area, not the parking area. So if you cut through the parking area, there won't be any buildings. It's peeled away. So that's why you don't see. Building. from this rendering is taken almost like you're standing right here, looking back towards that corner because you don't see building here. That's why from that view, that building won't be so much visible from the street. So this is, there's no cheat. This is exactly, we went out there to photo, we render. However, if you're further in that corner right here, then you see the building, the face, the facade. So NVIDIA and team, even though we could build along that whole wall, this building is kind of peeled away from that corner as well. Top right, yeah. Right here, yeah. The beyond, yes. So here, I know Patrick mentioned here, this by zoning code, we could have, NVIDIA could have built up to that pink line. Again, that's a code. And then here you can see how much of a less massing it is from the facial, from that area. Then it's allowable.

44:29 – 46:00Speaker 1

okay great or construction it could be 30 to 36 months but I mean that includes interior fit out and in all of that I mean I think that the exterior site work is probably 18 ish months where the the concerns that Donato raised around trucks where there's a lot more truck activity, pretty soon you get the superstructure up and all the activity moves inside. The teardown would happen pretty quickly. I would expect less than a month. Yeah, a couple months. He says a couple months. Again, there are strict requirements for dust mitigation, et cetera, that they'll be hosing down, you know, structures as they're pulling them down to ensure that there's no dust coming off site. Before we do any dust or before we do any demolition, there's abatement work that happens. So if there's any asbestos or any, you know, hazardous materials, we have to safely take that out of the building before we do the building demolition. Sorry. Can you hold the handheld mic, please?

46:00Speaker 9

No, it's OK. Back to Earth. What I did read that sometimes residents can have a little bit of

46:21 – 47:48Speaker 1

assessment the amount of excavation that we're doing in the distance we're doing it from so i'll say we have to do a very thorough geotechnical report that gets included with our building permits geotechnical report is they do borings around the site to check what the makeup of the soil is and ensure the stability and um as part of that We have an excavation permit, and the excavation permit will outlay where there could be areas of subsidence or settling or disturbance to adjacent structures. What I can assure you is Caltrain would be much more concerned about it than you might be. Not that you're not concerned either, but Caltrain would have a much higher level of liability against that. That's sort of the threshold that we need to ensure that any of our work is not going to further disturb either the county's roadway along the east side or Caltrans right away to the south of us. So, I mean, no, you shouldn't feel as though you need to do that. Obviously, you're welcome to, but there should be, and to my knowledge, Brent, you can ask, correct me if I'm wrong, we don't have any driven pile as part of our project. It's a drilled pile. So instead of a pile driven where you hear the banging, repeated banging, they're drilled. So it's a much quieter activity, construction activity.

47:51Speaker 9

I read online that property shifts are not.

48:15 – 50:33Speaker 1

Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, soil conditions. I mean, so for folks on the call, the concern is just overall soil conditions. And and what our Brent from DEVCON is indicating is, you know, we've done or they've done projects very close proximity to existing structures. There's different monitoring depending on the level. So for for reference, I have a project in construction right now. We dug a 60 foot deep hole 30 feet off of an existing building that was occupied. We had to do monitoring. They have prisms that they mount on the roof. You do daily surveying to ensure you're not getting shifting. And we monitored all of that. And I've previously worked on another project where we did work adjacent to SFPUC Hetch Hetchy water lines. So water lines that delivered the water to San Francisco from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. And similarly, we had monitoring on those lines while we were digging next to them. All of that is dictated by city code and then the geotechnical report. And so the city will review our geotechnical report. And if there's a level of concern that needs to be addressed, the city can mandate that you have to do those monitoring, that monitoring protocol as part of that. It would lower the roof structure, it would extend construction timeline, it would impact our ground floor plan, the lower level planning, the P1 planning, because that's where all of our, it would have significant trail on impacts to the programming of the building. Yes, is I guess should have been my first answer. We looked at a whole range of items. This was, we actually sunk it further from where we had initially proposed it. We were initially going to be a little bit higher. And then upon some feedback with the city working with the uh the zoning requirements we we sunk it further than where we were initially proposing correct any other

50:41 – 50:56Speaker 3

So Walter, who asked the question about Caltrain, I guess it's not a question, but just for the record, says poor response to traffic issues on Santa Moss and surrounding roadways. Where is the traffic planning document to be reviewed by Santa Clara residents?

50:59 – 51:13Speaker 1

The I guess the traffic report will be posted to the project's website, which you can get on the development website, the city's development project website.

51:16Speaker 11

And then there's a question about the

51:18 – 51:34Speaker 3

There's a question about the timing to completion, which I think was already addressed. And then Harpreet, it looks like you put a comment. Do you want me to read it, or is it what you said to the group? Okay, thank you.

51:36Speaker 1

Okay, well, thank you all for coming out. I'm happy to hang out a few minutes afterward.

52:01 – 52:42Speaker 4

We have a swim center that needs to be rebuilt. I'd like to see NVIDIA step up and say, you know what? We're going to donate the money and build the swim center for you. And we can name it NVIDIA International Swim Center. That's what I would like to see as a good neighbor. If I was NVIDIA's a good neighbor, I would get a lot of brownie points by doing something like that to the city. Because I haven't seen them do something really great in the city. And it's not a little company, but they're going to put a lot of the residents in nuisance with the noise and so on and inconvenience. But I'd like to see them do something with the city. And we could be a great neighbor. I really appreciate NVIDIA being here and bringing all the jobs. Thank you.

52:46 – 52:58Speaker 1

Okay, well, thank you everyone for coming out. Like I said, I'll hang around a little bit afterwards if folks have questions and want to chat. And please, great. Thank you all. Yeah.

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