Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer Sends Letter To New Campus’s Neighbors

People living near the area that will soon become Apple’s new campus have begun receiving information from the company about the “Campus 2″ project. The letter includes some pictures of the new campus, along with information about how it will impact the area. The letter also invited residents to offer feedback and express their concerns about the new campus.

The letter, a copy of which was obtained by 9to5Mac, comes from Apple’s CFO, Peter Oppenheimer, and includes some interesting details about the new facility. It points out that the facility is not going to replaces Apple’s current headquarters, but will serve as additional R&D space. It will also serve as the venue for Apple’s new product launches. Unfortunately, the campus will not be open to the public, meaning that there won’t be any museum or on-site Apple Store. To minimize the site’s environmental impact, the entire roof will be a massive solar array.

The letter also reassures local residents that the new facility is not a factory. There will be no manufacturing on the site. Additionally, the company will plant additional trees along the perimeter of the property and convert much of the site (which is currently paved) into green space. The building itself will be well back from the street, meaning that most neighbors and passersby will see the perimeter treeline, rather than the building itself.

The letter can be seen below (click to enlarge):

The letter included a postage-paid feedback card that recipients could return with their comments, questions, and concerns.

Apple is being subjective as to its own coporate wish list of selfish development objectives, while asking all resident Hobbit’s of Cupertino to be objective obout the Environmental issues soon to be impacting them … huh?
AB900 will allow Apple to control the pace of the Environmental Impact Review for this project, and to read Mr. Bonnemann suggest there will be little or no public particpation by the local Hobbitry, is well, uninformed, naive, and perhaps biased suppostion as to the kind of Hobbit living in Cupertino: we’s ain’t bare footed hillbillies, we’s hi tech keyboard banging folks, we’s can give as good’s as we get on social networking sites… WE want fair, timely environmetal mitigation, just as good as surrounding cities who will be paid for mitigation impacting them, Cupertino residents are equally interested in mitigation, as we have to live with this development for many years to come.
Yes, Residents desire good hi quality jobs.
Yes, we ant to help Apple move on the project, no stopping it, such is the for gone conclusion alluded to by Mr. Bonnemann.
Yes, we demand EIR mitigatrion for many issues, we Hobbit’s won’t take a fall on this project’s impacts to our quality of life, not just for impacted residents, but for employees working at Apple too, as traffic jams full of Apple commuter busses heading in and out of town due to the lack of local housing impacts eveyone equally.
Honestely, build this project in Texas, they have the room, but do they have the hi tech Hobbit man power available – if youre hi tech, are you perhaps inclined to move to Texas, let Apple know, or tell them you live in the Bay Area because it’s a damn nice place to live and work, if “nice” is replaced with “hell”, who cares what the value of Apple’s compenstaion might be for the local economy in the City of Cupertino in the comming decades, if quality of life sucks for the local Hobbitry.
Well, Hewlett Packard was the apple in the eye of Cupertino for many decades, but there sun set, so no one can’t say that Apples future fortunes will not change too. Honestly, i would like more retial options in Cupertino closer to my home, as I have been here longer then either HP or Apple, i would like to walk to shop and dine.
I can’t belive Steve Jobs had such a love/hate relationship with the City of Cupertino, surely this dream project of a beloved but now deceased icon needs rethinking, do Apple stock holders really need a monument to there “beloved” – a ring building monstrosity left for posterity ?
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tom Banks
June 8, 2012 at 12:40 am

Apple is being subjective as to its own coporate wish list of selfish development objectives, while asking all resident Hobbit’s of Cupertino to be objective obout the Environmental issues soon to be impacting them … huh?
AB900 will allow Apple to control the pace of the Environmental Impact Review for this project, and to read Mr. Bonnemann suggest there will be little or no public particpation by the local Hobbitry, is well, uninformed, naive, and perhaps biased suppostion as to the kind of Hobbit living in Cupertino: we’s ain’t bare footed hillbillies, we’s hi tech keyboard banging folks, we’s can give as good’s as we get on social networking sites… WE want fair, timely environmetal mitigation, just as good as surrounding cities who will be paid for mitigation impacting them, Cupertino residents are equally interested in mitigation, as we have to live with this development for many years to come.
Yes, Residents desire good hi quality jobs.
Yes, we ant to help Apple move on the project, no stopping it, such is the for gone conclusion alluded to by Mr. Bonnemann.
Yes, we demand EIR mitigatrion for many issues, we Hobbit’s won’t take a fall on this project’s impacts to our quality of life, not just for impacted residents, but for employees working at Apple too, as traffic jams full of Apple commuter busses heading in and out of town due to the lack of local housing impacts eveyone equally.
Honestely, build this project in Texas, they have the room, but do they have the hi tech Hobbit man power available – if youre hi tech, are you perhaps inclined to move to Texas, let Apple know, or tell them you live in the Bay Area because it’s a damn nice place to live and work, if “nice” is replaced with “hell”, who cares what the value of Apple’s compenstaion might be for the local economy in the City of Cupertino in the comming decades, if quality of life sucks for the local Hobbitry.
Well, Hewlett Packard was the apple in the eye of Cupertino for many decades, but there sun set, so no one can’t say that Apples future fortunes will not change too. Honestly, i would like more retial options in Cupertino closer to my home, as I have been here longer then either HP or Apple, i would like to walk to shop and dine.
I can’t belive Steve Jobs had such a love/hate relationship with the City of Cupertino, surely this dream project of a beloved but now deceased icon needs rethinking, do Apple stock holders really need a monument to there “beloved” – a ring building monstrosity left for posterity ?
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