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Special Speaker Event: Professor Jessica Trounstine, author of ‘Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities’

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

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July 19th Meeting: Housing and Transportation Platform

Greetings everyone!  The draft of Livable Sunnyvale’s platform is attached.  If you have a chance, please take a look before the meeting.

We will be meeting this Friday July 19th from 6 pm to 8 pm at the new AC Hotel, 597 E. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale.This is a SPECIAL gathering to discuss and progress our Housing Platform. The Steering Committee has developed a first draft which will serve as the basis for small group discussions on the key areas of the Platform.   

There are many housing related proposals, a transportation section and a climate section to flesh out.  We have invited our coalition partners and hope many of you will come to share your ideas and comments on these areas of concern at this important juncture!  

This is an opportunity to focus our advocacy efforts for the upcoming election season.  After our Platform is approved by our membership, we will have “task force” sign-ups and have our members talk to each Council person individually and also meet with key City staff. The Platform will be distributed to the Council, staff, interested Commissions and others before the City presents their Housing Strategy in the hopes that we can influence perception of the issues, consideration of new ordinances, as well as the outcomes of proposed measures!

Livable Sunnyvale has done this in the past with an El Camino Real Specific Plan Platform that turned out to be very influential and was referred to often!

Please come!P.S. If you want to come early to the hotel: here is their Happy Hour menu.  If you would like to join for dinner after the meeting at the hotel, here are the dinner and drinks menus.

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Climate Action Plan 2.0 Advisory Committee – Pitch Event for Selected Climate Action Plan (CAP 2.0) Ideas

A public meeting for the City of Sunnyvale’s Climate Action Plan (CAP 2.0) will be held on Monday, July 30, 2018 at 5:30 PM and a quorum of the City Council may be present.

LinkedIn – Yosemite Room (2nd floor),
605 W. Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085

5:30 PM, Monday, July 30, 2018

 

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Next General Meeting is August 15th

Please join us for our next General Meeting,  Wednesday, August 15th, 6:30pm at Toyota Sunnyvale – 898 W El Camino Real Sunnyvale!
 Agenda will be published later.
Parking at Toyota Sunnyvale is in customer parking areas on the lot until 9pm. So, although they may not close the lot that early, it’s probably safest to park on the street. Just go in through the main customer entrance which is on the right (when facing the building), the elevator is to your right in the hall as soon as you enter. Take two more rights when you get off the elevator on the 2nd floor , the conference room will be down the hall on your left.
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On The Table: Sunnyvale Luncheon/Almuerzo

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Come join co-hosts St. Cyprian’s Parish Church, Livable Sunnyvale and Sunnyvale Community Services to break bread and talk about our region’s housing challenges.

Ven a nuestro almuerzo donde vamos a tener una conversación entre miembros de la comunidad de Sunnyvale sobre el tema de la provisión de vivienda. Somos tres organizaciones distintos: una iglesia, un grupo de vecinos y una organización de caridad.

This event is sponsored by Silicon Valley Community Foundation, part of meal-time discussions happening throughout San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.

Ese almuerzo es parte de una serie de eventos de la Silicon Valley Community Foundation por todo el condado de Santa Clara y San Mateo.

RSVP required. Come join in the conversation!

Por favor, RSVP y entrar en la conversación!

DATE AND TIME

Sun, November 19, 2017

12:45 PM – 1:45 PM PST

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LOCATION

St. Cyprian’s Parish Gymnasium

195 Leota Ave

Sunnyvale, CA 94086

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October 21st Event: THE DEVELOPERS: TALES OF INTRIGUE, POLITICS, AND HIGH FINANCE

THE DEVELOPERS: TALES OF INTRIGUE, POLITICS, AND  HIGH FINANCE

 

Whoa, where did that come from?!!!

Ever drive down a street with which you’re familiar but haven’t been on for a while, and you suddenly pass a big, new development you’ve never seen before? Like the one shown above (which will be built on El Camino Real soon)? And you ask yourself, “How did that get there?!!” (You might use stronger language.)

Come to the Livable Sunnyvale meeting on October 21, at 2 PM, and hear from Developers who develop major apartment complexes in Sunnyvale like the one above. They will discuss the legal, political, and financial issues involved in taking a development from concept to construction.

Learn from them:

  • How these developments come to be,
  • Why don’t we have more housing, especially affordable housing,
  • What will be the impact of the new State housing bills just signed into law, and
  • How to influence the location, look, and size of these developments.

Big developments are coming to Sunnyvale soon. Learn how we can make more of them affordable.

Our Moderator is Kelly Snider of Kelly Snider Consulting, who has had such positions as Director, Mixed Use Development, for Sunnyvale Town Center, Director of Development for SummerHill Apartment Communities, and Director and Development Advisor for Los Altos Community Investments, and serves as an Adjunct Professor at San Jose State University re Commercial Real Estate Development.

The Developers include:

Geoffrey Morgan, President and CEO of First Community Housing: Geoff oversees all operations of First Community Housing, serving over 3,000 residents with the highest quality of environmentally sustainable, service-enriched affordable housing. Before joining FCH, Geoff was the Vice President of Real Estate Development for Christian Church Homes, and was responsible for development in various phases of approximately 2,000 units of senior housing and mixed use projects nationally.

Ardie Zahedani, Division President at St. Anton Communities, an award-winning, nationally recognized apartment and mixed-use builder with more than 25 years of ownership experience, which has many developments in the Bay Area, including Sunnyvale. Ardie is passionate about transit oriented market rate and income-restricted multifamily housing in housing-imbalanced communities (i.e., a focus on affordable housing).

Alex Sanchez, Executive Vice-President, ROEM Development Corporation, a vertically integrated company in the City of Santa Clara that produces high quality residential product through its in-house capacity to acquire, entitle, construct and manage its properties, and builds affordable housing. ROEM has developments in Sunnyvale. Alex also served as the Executive Director of the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Clara and the Director of Housing for the City of San Jose.

Saturday October 21st   2 to 4pm
Fairbrae Swim Club
696 Sheraton Ave.
Sunnyvale CA
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