Yearly Archives: 2019

Livable Sunnyvale – December General Meeting

Don’t miss the very last general meeting of the year on Wednesday, December 4, 2019. The agenda includes three great topics:

  • Vignesh Swaminathan, President and CEO of Crossroad Labs will update us on the new Downtown San Jose. Vignesh is responsible for designing and delivering the bike network. He will present the details behind the quick-build, bicyclist- and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure.
  • SB50: A discussion of SB 50 led by Livable Sunnyvale Vice Chair Richard Mehlinger. Livable Sunnyvale members will be asked to vote on endorsement of this bill. You can find Richard’s analysis of SB 50, and his argument for why Livable Sunnyvale should endorse it, here: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/SB-50-Livable-Sunnyvale–Ao9cgM3nRymm4KqpiHISKGIVAg-OolCF7i04EaxsGE5cSwDo.
  • Electrifying everything is a City of Sunnyvale goal. We’ll learn about what Livable Sunnyvale is doing to meet electrification goals.
  •  Announcements. Check out the list of upcoming events.  To add your meeting/event to this list, send info to julialiulee@gmail.com.   

Meeting details:

Date: Wednesday. December 4, 2019

Start Time: 6:30 pm

Location: Sunnyvale Toyota. 898 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

 

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Livable Sunnyvale – November 6th Meeting

Please join us this Wednesday for:  

Livable Sunnyvale’s November General Meeting
When: Wed, Nov. 6th, 6:30 – 8:30 pm 
Where: Toyota Sunnyvale, 898 West El Camino Real, 2nd floor.

Meetings are free and open to the public.

Featured speaker is Robert Stromberg from Destination Home who will give us a presentation about Housing Readiness Communities and how individuals and organizations can get involved.  Here’s an introduction to the topic:

Building Housing Ready Communities Together

The Destination: Home Housing Ready Communities initiative brings together neighbors, community groups, nonprofits, government and housing developers to take action for urgently needed supportive housing and extremely low income affordable housing to end and prevent homelessness in Santa Clara County.

The introductory presentation and discussion provides an opportunity to answer questions about housing and homelessness, explain how a Housing First approach and supportive housing are proven to end homelessness, and provide concrete examples of how you can get involved to help us build a broad-based Action Network of supporters in the community.

Housing Ready Communities is implemented in partnership with the City of San Jose, the County of Santa Clara, the Santa Clara County Housing Authority, Destination: Home, Silicon Valley at Home, community organizations and neighbors throughout the county. For more information, visit http://housingready.org.

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Livable Sunnyvale – Oct. 2nd Meeting

At our October meeting, we will introduce a new feature called “the Month in Review” on Google Slides. Steering Committee Membership Director Julia Liu will explain how we all can use this feature to add content to share.

By the same interactive logic, we will also introduce a new feature for ending our meetings called “Upcoming Events”. All members will also have access to post to keep us up to date on important future events.

Our special guests will be members of the Santa Clara Community Advocates who will introduce themselves and continue the process of collaboration that was started by Greenbelt Alliance who organized Envisioning El Camino, held recently at the Santa Clara Library.

Both Sunnyvale and Santa Clara will be in the process of approving their respective Specific Plans starting this year(Sunnyvale) and January (Santa Clara).

Also Steering Committee Secretary, Gail Rubino, will report on a workshop meeting she
attended with Catalyze that is interesting for our mobile home housing policy strategy as well as other “affordable” housing we want to preserve and protect.
If time allows, we will collectively come up with a plan for a proposed Tactical Urbanism project for traffic calming!

Please join us. Meeting are always free and open to the public.

Wednesday, October 2nd, 6:30 pm, Toyota Sunnyvale, 898 W. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA 94087 (meeting room is upstairs)

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Livable Sunnyvale Sept. 4th General Meeting

Join us for our monthly Livable Sunnyvale General Meeting.

Other than updates on Climate Action Plan 2.0 from Council,  meeting with Sunnyvale Housing Officer, Age Friendly Cities meeting, Vision Zero outcome, Active Transportation Plan, our Transportation Platform, our Housing Platform, and activism opportunities, there will be two Speaker Presentations

  1. Milo Trauss and Sara to give an update on the outreach process and feedback so far on the Fremont Corners Village Center (2 outreach sessions held so far) Q and A.
  2. Sue S. Will give a short training on “how to be an activist in Sunnyvale” (Key documents, contacts, and roles to play alone or in the organization).

Livable Sunnyvale Sept. General Meeting
When: Wed, Sept. 4th, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Where: Toyota Sunnyvale, 898 West El Camino Real, 2nd floor.

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August 7th Meeting: Housing Platform and Tactical Urbanism

At our next General Meeting, this Wednesday at 6:30 pm, we will discussed and vote on our Draft Housing Platform. You can find and comment on it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AqgyXihleL3jiT3U4Dn-3BP7jybAQIaVs6VXp8AWvs0/edit?usp=drivesdk. You can also send the steering committee feedback directly.
If you would like to suggest changes, please get us your comments by Monday evening at the latest, so that we can consider incorporating them. As a reminder, per our bylaws, amendments require a two thirds vote to pass.
Note that the sections on transportation and the environment are not yet done. We’ll be working on finishing them in the next couple months.

We will also have a presentation on Tactical Urbanism.

The Livable Sunnyvale General Meeting is Wednesday, August 7 at Sunnyvale Toyota.
Starts at 6:30PM. All meetings are free and open to the public.
Sunnyvale Toyota, 898 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

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July 19th Meeting: Housing and Transportation Platform

Greetings everyone!  The draft of Livable Sunnyvale’s platform is attached.  If you have a chance, please take a look before the meeting.

We will be meeting this Friday July 19th from 6 pm to 8 pm at the new AC Hotel, 597 E. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale.This is a SPECIAL gathering to discuss and progress our Housing Platform. The Steering Committee has developed a first draft which will serve as the basis for small group discussions on the key areas of the Platform.   

There are many housing related proposals, a transportation section and a climate section to flesh out.  We have invited our coalition partners and hope many of you will come to share your ideas and comments on these areas of concern at this important juncture!  

This is an opportunity to focus our advocacy efforts for the upcoming election season.  After our Platform is approved by our membership, we will have “task force” sign-ups and have our members talk to each Council person individually and also meet with key City staff. The Platform will be distributed to the Council, staff, interested Commissions and others before the City presents their Housing Strategy in the hopes that we can influence perception of the issues, consideration of new ordinances, as well as the outcomes of proposed measures!

Livable Sunnyvale has done this in the past with an El Camino Real Specific Plan Platform that turned out to be very influential and was referred to often!

Please come!P.S. If you want to come early to the hotel: here is their Happy Hour menu.  If you would like to join for dinner after the meeting at the hotel, here are the dinner and drinks menus.

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Livable Sunnyvale June 5th General Meeting – Age-Friendly Sunnyvale and Protected Bike Lanes

Come hear TWO great presentations at Livable Sunnyvale’s June 5th General Meeting.  Everyone is welcome.·       

Tracey Gott from Age-Friendly Silicon Valley will update us on the Sunnyvale Action Plan.  The City’s age-friendliness assessment was completed in May 2018.  What has happened since then?  What’s the timeline for completion and what can the residents expect?·      

 John Cordes representing SVBC Santa Clara County Advocate will update us on Protected bikeways. What are these paths, and why do we need them?  Most importantly, how will biking be safer for all riders using protected bike paths?

Come learn how Livable Sunnyvale will impact these efforts.

WHEN? Wednesday, June 5th, 6:30 pm to 8:45 pm
WHERE? Toyota Sunnyvale, 898 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, 2nd floor conference room.

This meeting is open to the public.  Everyone is welcome.
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General Meeting – May 1: Fremont Corners Village Center and Steering Committee Election

Don’t miss the May 1 meeting!
1. Milo Trauss with True Life Companies is going to tell us about the Fremont Corners Village Center application. This project is in the early stages of application and has not begun formal community engagement. However, if you are attending our meeting, you will be among the first to offer input on this project!
Fremont Corners is the corner where Longhorn Steak House and 24 Hour Fitness and many other small businesses reside at the corner of Sunnyvale-Saratoga and Fremont Ave..

2. Livable Sunnyvale Steering Committee Election. All members are eligible to run and vote. Members who have declared will give a short candidate statement and then we’ll vote. The election is based on approval voting – you can vote for as many candidates as they wish. The 7 persons with the highest number of votes will be elected.
Declared candidates are:

      • John Cordes
      • Alejandro Marti
      • Julia Liu
      • Tara Martin-Milius
      • Richard Mehlinger
      • Gail Rubino
      • Michael Serrone
      • Sue Serrone
Meeting details
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Location: Sunnyvale Toyota, 898 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA 94087

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