Livable Sunnyvale is co-sponsoring this special event with Friends of Caltrain and other partners.

The Bay Area needs to build many more homes to address the housing affordability crisis, but we don’t want to worsen the climate crisis or our traffic challenges. You can advocate for affordable homes with great transportation options that will help make your community more healthy and connected. Join us to:

• Learn about the connections between housing affordability, traffic reduction, and climate change; 
• Hear how communities are planning and building in ways that reduce the need to drive
• See how you can help make your community more walkable, affordable, and transit-friendly.
• Learn about upcoming decisions in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale to help put solutions into practice.
  

Speakers:

• Nina Rizzo manages GreenTRIP Certifications at TransForm. The GreenTRIP program supports multi-family residential developments that implement strategies to reduce traffic, parking, and greenhouse gas emissions
• First Community Housing, an affordable housing developer that designs its projects so that residents can reduce their reliance on cars
• Travis Duncan, Saris Regis, a developer of market-rate and mixed-income housing focusing on transit-rich locations

Co-sponsors:

• Livable Sunnyvale, Santa Clara Community Advocates, Friends of Caltrain, Greenbelt Alliance, Catalyze SV

Event Date and Location

Thursday, February 6th, 2020, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Fair Oaks Room
540 N Fair Oaks Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94085

When we last saw the El Camino Real Specific Plan, at the end of 2017, Sunnyvale’s City Council had selected a preferred land use alternative from among the four presented for consideration (click on the links for the staff report and  meeting video).  After receiving recommendations from the ECR Plan Advisory Committee (ECRPAC), staff and the Planning Commission, considering input from the online survey and public workshops, hearing input from public speakers at the hearing, and much deliberation, the City Council selected Alternative R PLUS as the land use plan to be studied and developed further. Of the four alternatives, ALT-R PLUS is the land use plan that identified the greatest amount of residential development opportunity along the El Camino Real corridor while still preserving opportunities for additional commercial growth.

After a long hiatus, the City is appointing a new Advisory Committee and will hold the next meeting on January 24th, 6:00 pm in the Neighborhood Room, Recreation Center, 550 E Remington Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94087

The agenda includes looking at changes in State law that impact the plan, status of the EIR and the ECR Specific Plan.