At our next meeting on February 12th (note the change of date), 6:30 pm at Toyota Sunnyvale, 898 W. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, our topics will be:

1. Sunnyvale Active Transportation Plan

How can we continue to improve options for bicyclists and pedestrians in Sunnyvale?

How can Sunnyvale students more safely walk and bike to school?

The City of Sunnyvale is exploring these questions as part of a year-long effort to create an Active Transportation Plan that will address bicycle, pedestrian and Safe Routes to Schools needs throughout the City.

The Active Transportation Plan will help the City strategically invest in programs and projects to make walking and bicycling safer and more convenient for residents. In addition, the Plan will analyze ways to make it safer for Sunnyvale students to walk and bike to school.

2. Study Issues. We will look at Study Issues being considered by the City Council related to housing and transportation.

3. Measures G and H

Since the cost of attending California’s public universities has risen to almost five times that of attending a community college, many students and their families rely on their local community college to get a high-quality education and save tens of thousands of dollars. At the same time, the needs of students who face hunger and housing insecurity is a growing challenge across our district. To address these needs, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Nov. 25 to place two measures on the March 3, 2020 ballot.

Measure G – the Foothill-De Anza Community College District Affordable Career, College Transfer, Classroom Repair Measure – is a $898 million general obligation bond that would cost property owners approximately 1.6 cents per $100 of assessed value (not market value) annually through 2053-54.

Measure H – the Educational and Teacher Excellence Parcel Tax – is a $48 parcel tax that would be levied for five years and raise approximately $5.6 million annually.

These measures are designed to increase opportunities and support for local students to earn college credits, certifications, and job skills at a reasonable price and transfer to four-year universities.

Meeting is on February 12th (note the change of date), 6:30 pm at Toyota Sunnyvale, 898 W. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

All meetings are free and open to the public.

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.

Greetings!  Please join us for  

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

Featured speakers:

1. James Tuleya entertaining us (cooking) while he explains the differences in cost, convenience, health benefits and more withinduction cooking!  Find out why induction is both much healthier for your family and for the planet!
2. John Supp, Account Services Manager at Silicon Valley Clean Energy will give a brief presentation on going all-electric, including information on the latest rebates and cost savings.  Most of his time will be on answering your questions.

For other related events, please see our Upcoming Events list.  

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.

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)

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.