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

On March 20 in Redwood City Friends of Caltrain is hosting a presentation on Caltrain’s 2040 Vision at Redwood City City Hall. The presentation will cover an exciting vision of the future showing how Caltrain could reach 250,000 daily trips by 2040 with up to 5-minute service at top station. The increase would be the equivalent of double-decking the 101 freeway

These improvements will depend on decisions made in a visionary business plan that the Caltrain board will decide on this year.  Come learn about the Caltrain business plan from the transportation and policy experts at the forefront of the effort, and learn how you can add your voice and help this happen.  
RSVP Link http://org.salsalabs.com/o/741/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=103367

Facebook event link to share: https://www.facebook.com/events/293343851346920/

On March 14, Michael Lane, Deputy Director of Silicon Valley at Home will help outline housing affordability solutions at the local, regional and state levels, providing an overview of the regional housing crisis and describing the set of proposed regional solutions developed through the CASA initiative.

Co-sponsored by Palo Alto Forward, Menlo Together, Silicon Valley At Home, Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County

RSVP here:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/home-sweet-casa-taking-on-the-regional-housing-crisis-tickets-57735496424Facebook event link to share:https://www.facebook.com/events/2298809807008296/

For the Livable Sunnyvale March General Meeting we are requesting all members of Livable Sunnyvale to attend the Sunnyvale Lawrence Station Area Plan Sense of Place Community Workshop. This Housing Development is large and needs to include Affordable Housing.

The Lawrence Station Area Plan meeting is:
Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2019, at 6:30PM – 8:00PM
Location: Ponderosa Park Building, 811 Henderson Avenue

The Meeting Notice is posted here.

Meeting Purpose This is Sunnyvale’s first community workshop to gather initial input from residents and other stakeholders towards the development of the LSAP Sense of Place Plan. The Sense of Place Plan would identify streetscape improvements to enhance the pedestrian and bicycling experience in the area. Please join us to learn more about this process and contribute your thoughts to this important effort. 

The next Livable Sunnyvale General meeting will be in April. Stay tuned for more info. 

After the meeting – plan to adjourn to VinoVino, 199 S. Murphy St, Sunnyvale, 408.675.8466. So be hungry, thirsty and ready to socialize with other Livables.

In November of 2016, Santa Clara County voters approved Measure A – a
$950 million Affordable Housing Bond. It was projected that the
Housing Bond would fund 120 new affordable housing developments
over ten years, including 4,800 new units dedicated to Extremely
Low-Income and Very Low-Income households.Council Member Glenn Hendricks, Sunnyvale’s representative on the Measure A Oversight Committee, will give us an update on the distribution of funds from this measure.He will also provide an update on transportation funding for Sunnyvale.

The meeting is February 6th, 6:30pm at Toyota Sunnyvale, 898 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale. The meeting is in the 2nd floor conference room. Meetings are open to the public, everyone is welcome to attend.

Our first item for Wednesday’s meeting will be an update on Downtown Sunnyvale developments from Travis Duncan of CityLine. Between the ongoing construction of Whole Foods and the recently announced closing of Macy’s, there will be a lot to talk about.

Next we will discuss the CASA Compact. CASA is a ten point plan developed by MTC and ABAG (the Association of Bay Area Governments) to solve the housing crisis, and is based on three pillars: protecting tenants, preserving existing affordable housing, and producing new housing. The Compact passed the CASA steering committee 14-3 last month, and now goes to the ABAG executive committee, who will be voting on CASA at their next meeting on January 17. The proposal has generated a lot of controversy, but it’s the only systemic, region-wide attempt on the table right now to actually solve the housing crisis.

Sunnyvale Mayor Glenn Hendricks will be there to talk about why he opposes CASA. We will also find out why many advocacy organizations are supporting it.

The meeting is January 9th, 6:30pm at Toyota Sunnyvale, 898 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale. The meeting is in the 2nd floor conference room. Meetings are open to the public, everyone is welcome to attend.