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:
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
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.
Make your opinion count! There are many items to be voted on by eligible members, including one of our major focus for next year – Neighborhood-Scale Multi-Family Housing Initiative. Please look out for an email coming soon from Richard Mehlinger explaining what that means.
And attending this meeting is the final event that would qualify you to receive a free, Jessica Trounstine autographed book!
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Agenda:
Please join us for
Livable Sunnyvale’s November General Meeting
When: Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
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AGENDA
1. Announcements (10 min)
o Reach Codes
o Moffett Park Committee Report
2. Debrief Housing Strategy (15 min)
3. Mobile Home Parks: If we go with the MOU, what does a successful MOU look like and what provisions should it contain? (15 minutes)
4. Accessible City Meetings and Better Public Outreach (30 min)
5. Vote on CatalyzeSV to become our Coalition Partner (10 min)
6. Regional Update Presentation from Mountain View YIMBY (15 min)
7. Regional Update Presentation from Cupertino for All (15 min)
Professor Jessica Trounstine, author of ‘Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities’ is giving us a talk on: Wednesday 12/09/2020 – 6:30 to 8:00 pm.
Click here to register on Zoom. First 50 registrants who are Livable Sunnyvale voting members by the talk will receive an author autographed book ‘Segregation by Design’ for FREE (courtesy our grantor). See below for how to be eligible.
Here’s a description of the book: Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early twentieth century, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing, amenities (such as parks), and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation – first within cities and more recently between them. Documenting changing patterns of segregation and their political mechanisms, Trounstine argues that city governments have pursued these policies to enhance the wealth and resources of white property owners at the expense of people of color and the poor. Contrary to leading theories of urban politics, local democracy has not functioned to represent all residents. The result is unequal access to fundamental local services – from schools, to safe neighborhoods, to clean water.
How to become a voting member of Livable Sunnyvale:
1. FILL OUT our membership form
2. ATTEND at least one of our qualifying events within the past 6 months. There are still two such events before the talk:
o November General Meeting: Wednesday 11/11/2020 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Click here to register on Zoom. Detailed agenda will be sent out later this week.
o December General Meeting: Wednesday 12/2/2020 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Click here to register on Zoom – be sure to change the date to 12/2, otherwise you will be registering for the Nov meeti
The membership of Livable Sunnyvale has voted to endorse the following positions on ballot measures:
Prop 14: No Position
Prop 15: Support
Prop 16: Support
Prop 17: Support
Prop 18: Support
Prop 19: Support
Prop 20: Oppose
Prop 21: Support
Prop 22: Oppose
Prop 23: No Position
Prop 24: No Position
Prop 25: Support
Measure RR: Support
We urge you to strongly consider these recommendations as you fill out your November ballot, and to tell your friends!
Please join us for these important candidate forums. Our focus will be on our three pillars: Housing, Transportation, and Sustainability. Livable Sunnyvale is non-partisan and does not endorse candidates. The forums are open to the public.
Livable Sunnyvale’s Mayoral Candidates’ Forum – 3 Candidates
Livable Sunnyvale’s City Council Candidates’ Forum – 7 Candidates
This is a special joint meeting with the Sunnyvale Democratic Club to review the November 2020 ballot measures.
The meeting is on Zoom and will start at 1:45 pm and end around 4:30 pm. The meeting link will be sent by email closer to the event time.
These are the propositions (with links to more information). We will present pros and cons of each measure and vote to endorse or not. The meeting is open to the public.
PROP 14: STEM CELL RESEARCH
PROP 15: TAXES ON COMMERCIAL PROPERTY
PROP 16: ALLOW PUBLIC AGENCIES TO CONSIDER DIVERSITY
PROP 17: VOTING RIGHTS FOR PEOPLE ON PAROLE
PROP 18: VOTING RIGHTS FOR 17-YEAR-OLDS
PROP 19: CHANGES IN PROPERTY TAX RULES
PROP 20: CHANGES TO CRIMINAL PENALTIES AND PAROLE
PROP 21: LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND RENT CONTROL
PROP 22: RIDESHARE AND DELIVERY DRIVERS
PROP 23: KIDNEY DIALYSIS CLINICS
PROP 24: CHANGES TO CONSUMER PRIVACY LAWS
PROP 25: YES OR NO ON GETTING RID OF BAIL
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We have a full agenda including one hour with Jenny Carloni, Sunnyvale’s Housing Officer on the recently released Housing Strategy Draft. The Housing Strategy is a pivotal document for housing in Sunnyvale. The Draft passed the Housing and Human Services Commission last week with a few modified recommendations. It will be going to City Council on Oct 13 for final approval. Livable Sunnyvale as well as some coalition partners have sent the City initial comments. Come learn more and help shape the future of development in Sunnyvale for years to come. During “Soliciting input for Candidates’ Forum questions” (15 min), we will be asking folks to input their suggestions for questions to the candidates into an online google doc/sheet with 3 separate areas: Housing, Transportation, Sustainability. These questions are for the upcoming Sunnyvale Mayor Forum on September 23rd and the City Council Forum on September 30th. When: Wednesday, September 2, 2020, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM AGENDA Announcements – 5 minutes More Details on using Zoom: Questions and comments will be taken via the Chat function on Zoom. Please type them in anytime during the presentation and our meeting moderator will ask them or answer them after the presentation. (The Chat button is somewhere along the periphery of your Zoom screen – usually between the ‘Share Screen’ and ‘Record’ buttons.) To satisfy future voting eligibility, Livable Sunnyvale members please “sign-in” if applicable: If more than 1 member are logged in on the same device, please send your name(s) via Chat to ‘Livable Sunnyvale’. If you are calling in, please email LivableSunnyvale@gmail.com to let us know you called in on what phone number. |