Cupertino City Counsel considers environmental impact of Apple campus

i thought it was supposed to be environmentally friendly with photo voltaics, etc...?

They'll let the mothership land anywhere

The environmental impact I am most concerned about is the death ray that the curved glass of the south facing side of the inner courtyard would make.

Sure there is "no way the city will reject the plan" as all they see are tax dollars and the "prestige" of having the number one tech company doing business in their city. Unfortunately this poorly scaled doughnut is an architectural one-liner. Inflexible, wholistic and monolithic...kind of like the company (and perhaps Jobs) itself. Jobs would likely want to patent the design for circular buildings...he'd better speak with the ancient roman architects first. What lies in this structure's future when Apple decides to move their headquarters to the literal and proverbial cloud in earth's near orbit. Does it become a decaying monument to the once earthbound Apple or is it referred to as "the big donut" that houses a new tech company every 15 years...eventually to house a hosting site for porn services? "Not that there's anything wrong with it." Hopefully the city hired their own experts (at the applicant's expense by law) to review and challenge the reports and findings of the Applicant? The Planning Board (or is that Zoning in the case of variances?) should vet this design as critically and thoroughly as possible. It will have a lasting impact on the resident's lives (for good or bad) and city's services. While I love the company's products, I am surely not the only one that considers this heavy handed, isolated iFortress a gesture of Apple turning it's back on its surroundings and environs. It communicates a fear or wariness of the general public and complete inward focus and secrecy of operations within the company to the point of paranoia. It is like an earthbound Death Star reincarnated...with an appeal to the consumer's spending habits at heart, the same public from which Apple wishes to distance itself in this proposal. Uninspired, simplistic (not minimal in the artistic sense, a common misguided interpretation) ironic and contradictory, it will stand as a monument to one man. "Oh by the way, one more thing..."

"Cupertino City Counsel"

... sigh.

Shouldn't that be "council" rather then "counsel"?