Don Weden, Retired Principal Planner, County of Santa Clara, on
Urbanism After the Pandemic, What futures should we be preparing for?
When: Thursday, March 25, 2021,  6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
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Come join us for some very important topics:

1. 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 PM
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AGENDA

1. Sunnyvale’s Study Issues Roundup – Richard
2. Protecting 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 Clara County Board of Supervisors on this issue. VOTE.  Below are some related resources:
   • Protect Juristac Resource Guide
   • Recording of Talk by Valentin Lopez, Chair of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band at the Dec 2020 Sunnyvale Democratic Club meeting, on protecting sacred lands and specifically Juristac,
   • www.protectjuristac.org
3. Sacramento City Council approved Fourplexes – Ansel Lundberg from House Sacramento.  Here are three write up’s on this:
   • Sacramento Bee in-depth article
   • From the Terner Center
   • From Strong Towns
4. Small Groups discussion on Multi-Family Housing in Sunnyvale

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 PM
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Michael Lens is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, and Associate Faculty Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Professor Lens’s research and teaching explore the potential of public policy to address housing market inequities that lead to negative outcomes for low-income families and communities of color. This research involves housing interventions such as subsidies, tenant protections, and production. Professor Lens regularly publishes this work in leading academic journals and his research has won awards from the Journal of the American Planning Association and Housing Policy Debate.