New Apple Building

The city of Cupertino is currently reviewing Apple's plans to build a new campus in its downtown area. If approved, Apple will able to use the entire 175-acre piece of land between Wolfe Road, Homestead Road, Tantau Avenue, and I-280, a site currently occupied by a large number of office buildings, most belonging to Hewlett-Packard. The new facility, in addition to dramatically increasing the amount of landscape and natural scenery in the area, would also be run almost completely on solar energy due to the voltaic solar panels covering almost every surface of the compound. Furthermore, the campus would be part of a citywide bus transit system, greatly decreasing the amount of Carbon emissions made by commuting workers.
However, this plan is coming under heavy fire by a number of Cupertino citizens, most of them cyclists. Their complaints stem from the fact that a private access ramp within the complex would cover the western part of Pruneridge Avenue, a road used commonly by cyclists who want to avoid the notoriously traffic-heavy Homestead Road.

The first phase of development includes a preliminary Environmental Impact Assessment conducted by the city of Cupertino, which will assess the compound's impact on a variety of environmental factors, such as air quality, noise control, and impact on traffic. While the Assessment is being completed, residents of Cupertino will have the opportunity to voice their opinions in a series of public hearings conducted by the city council. The final report will be available to the public in the Spring of 2012.