Day:   Wednesday Date:  August 18th Time:  6:30 PM Location: Zoom link to register - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vcuypqjkrE9I_zXJrddSYd-gqbd_qtdBv Livable Sunnyvale is hosting an endorsement meeting for two affordable housing developments.  During this meeting you will hear from the developers, share your concerns and, if you are a member of Livable Sunnyvale and eligible to vote, vote to endorse or not each of these proposed developments. Sonora Court (1178 Sonora Court - close to Lawrence Station) is sponsored by MidPen Housing.  Jennifer Liu, Senior Project Manager for MidPen Housing will give a brief presentation to introduce this development and then go over our Endorsement Form. You can review the presentation for the project before the meeting…

When: Wednesday, August 4,  6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Where: Click here to register for the Meeting linkRegister in advance or register right before joining the meeting. After registering, Zoom will email you the link to join the meeting. AGENDA Announcements (5 minutes)Redistricting Meeting on Aug 5thSB9 Letters to BeckerAB1401 Letters to BermanBoard Special Election (one vacancy) (10 minutes)SVL Meeting Format: Call to Action for Public Comment & VOTE on Livable Sunnyvale position (5 minutes)Mobile Home MOU status (10 minutes)Impacts to Sunnyvale of the current catastrophic drought -- Gustav Larsson, Sunnyvale Council Member (30 minutes)As a new Council Member in 2014, Gustav Larsson was appointed to Sunnyvale's seat on the board of the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency…

Please join us!  This meeting starts at 6PM so we can squeeze everything in!  When: Wednesday, July 7,  6 PM to 8:30 PM Where: Click here to register for the Meeting linkRegister in advance or register right before joining the meeting. After registering, Zoom will email you the link to join the meeting. AGENDA Announcements (5 minutes)Legislation Updates (5 minutes)SB 9, SB 10, AB 1401 (Richard)Eviction Moratorium Emergency Endorsement (Janette)Now LawSafe Parking Report (30 + 10 minutes)Site Overview (Coleen Housler)Fry’s former Sunnyvale site (Jim Davis)Mobile Home MOU update (5+10 minutes)Environmental Benefits of Missing Middle Housing (Justin20 + 10 minutes)Project Scoring, Fremont Corners (40 minutes)Endorsement VOTE based on scoring (10 minutes) Recordings of Past Speaking Events:  Professor Michael…

Join us on June 2, 6:30 pm for our June General Meeting to be held on Zoom. Where: Click here to register for the Meeting linkRegister in advance or register right before joining the meeting. After registering, Zoom will email you the link to join the meeting. Agenda items include: Update on negotiations for a memorandum of understanding between mobile home residents and mobile home park owners.Kristel Wickham, Chair of the Sustainability Commission, will discuss an expanded program on sustainability that includes updates on the Climate Action Plan implementations, next steps, with their connections to housing and transportation.Shani Kleinhaus on light pollution, bird safety, and the Bay ecosystem Janette Brambila - presentation on…

When: Wednesday, May 19, 2021,  12 noon to 1:30 pmIf you missed the event you can view a recording at Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia . This event is part of SV@Home's Affordable Housing Month  About the Talk: Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for SuburbiaThe book, Trespasser? takes an intimate look at the everyday life and politics inside Silicon Valley against a backdrop of dramatic demographic shifts.  It follows one community over several decades as it transforms from a sleepy rural town to a global gateway and one of the nation's largest Asian American-majority cities.  There, it highlights the passionate efforts of Asian Americans to make Silicon Valley their home by…

Please join us!  There's a lot happening in and around our city, including Mobile Home MOU update and Safe Parking in Mt.View & Sunnyvale; And 3 VOTES. When: Wednesday, April 14, 2021,  6:30 PM to 8:30 PMWhere: Click here to register for the Meeting linkRegister in advance or register right before joining the meeting. After registering, Zoom will email you the link to join the meeting. AGENDA Announcements Moffett Park Land Use AlternativePlanning Commission meeting, April 26City Council meeting, May 25AB 1091 Board endorsementGet your shot when it’s your turn!Willow Lung Amam Talk Housing Element subcommitteeCall for volunteers to reach out to councilmembersApply for Boards and Commissions! Mayor Klein to speak briefly.Arts Commission (2)Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission (2)Board of Building…

Don Weden, Retired Principal Planner, County of Santa Clara, onUrbanism After the Pandemic, What futures should we be preparing for?When: Thursday, March 25, 2021,  6:30 PM to 8:30 PMWhere: Click here to register for the Meeting link

Come join us for some very important topics: Protecting the Juristac Sacred Grounds, 2. Hear how Sacramento legalized Fourplexes, followed by brainstorming in small groups on how we can achieve the same in Sunnyvale.  When: Wednesday, February 3, 2021,  6:30 PM to 8:30 PMWhere: Click here to register for the Meeting linkRegister in advance or register right before joining the meeting. After registering, Zoom will email you the link to join the meeting. AGENDA Sunnyvale's Study Issues Roundup - RichardProtecting Juristac Sacred Grounds, a critical wildlife corridor in Gilroy and for thousands of years a sacred Native American landscape. Presentation + Q/A by Colleen Cabot of South Bay Indigenous Solidarity.   By learning and taking a stance, we may help influence the Santa…

Livable Sunnyvale is honored to host Professor Michael Lens for an insightful talk. Professor Lens studies housing affordability and segregation. Current projects concern the neighborhood context of eviction, evaluating California's efforts to further fair housing, studying how housing vouchers impact economic, health, and justice outcomes in Sonoma County, and several projects (with Mike Manville and Paavo Monkkonen) concerning housing supply in California.  Lens is also working on a book project that examines fifty years of neighborhood change in Black neighborhoods following the 1968 Fair Housing Act. When: Wednesday, January 27,  6:30 PM to 8 PMWhere: Click here to register for the Meeting link    Michael Lens is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, and Associate Faculty Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies at…

Make your opinion count!  There are many items to be voted on by eligible members, including one of our major focus for next year -  Neighborhood-Scale Multi-Family Housing Initiative.  Please look out for an email coming soon from Richard Mehlinger explaining what that means.  And attending this meeting is the final event that would qualify you to receive a free, Jessica Trounstine autographed book! Click here to register on Zoom.  Agenda:    Announcements (10 min)Neighborhood-Scale Multi-Family Housing Initiative (30 min) - VOTENancy Smith on League of Cities: housing and local control (15 minutes)Propose softening local control legislative priority as pertains to housing (15 min) - VOTEMOU letter to the city (15 min) - VOTESanta Clara Community Advocates presents…