Join us on June 2, 6:30 pm for our June General Meeting to be held on Zoom.
Where: Click here to register for the Meeting link Register in advance or register right before joining the meeting. After registering, Zoom will email you the link to join the meeting.
Agenda items include:
Update on negotiations for a memorandum of understanding between mobile home residents and mobile home park owners.
Kristel Wickham, Chair of the Sustainability Commission, will discuss an expanded program on sustainability that includes updates on the Climate Action Plan implementations, next steps, with their connections to housing and transportation.
Shani Kleinhaus on light pollution, bird safety, and the Bay ecosystem
Janette Brambila – presentation on CA Rent-Relief application process & requirements
About the Talk: Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia The book, Trespasser? takes an intimate look at the everyday life and politics inside Silicon Valley against a backdrop of dramatic demographic shifts. It follows one community over several decades as it transforms from a sleepy rural town to a global gateway and one of the nation’s largest Asian American-majority cities. There, it highlights the passionate efforts of Asian Americans to make Silicon Valley their home by investing in local schools, neighborhoods, and shopping centers. It also provides a textured tale of the tensions that emerge over this suburb’s changing environment. With vivid storytelling, Trespassers? demonstrates that suburbia is an increasingly important place for immigrants and minorities to register their claims for equality and inclusion, while also raising questions about the rights of diverse populations to their own suburban American Dream.
About the Speaker: Professor Willow Lung-Amam is an associate professor in the Urban Studies and Planning Program and director of community development at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Please join us! There’s a lot happening in and around our city, including Mobile Home MOU update and Safe Parking in Mt.View & Sunnyvale; And 3 VOTES.
When: Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Where: Click here to register for the Meeting link Register in advance or register right before joining the meeting. After registering, Zoom will email you the link to join the meeting.
AGENDA
Announcements
Moffett Park Land Use Alternative
Planning Commission meeting, April 26
City Council meeting, May 25
AB 1091 Board endorsement
Get your shot when it’s your turn!
Willow Lung Amam Talk
Housing Element subcommittee
Call for volunteers to reach out to councilmembers
Apply for Boards and Commissions! Mayor Klein to speak briefly.
Arts Commission (2)
Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission (2)
Board of Building Code Appeals (2)
Board of Library Trustees (2)
Heritage Preservation Commission (2)
Housing and Human Services Commission (4)
Parks and Recreation Commission (2)
Personnel Board (1)
Planning Commission (1)
Sustainability Commission (2)
REDISTRICTING
SB 9/10, VOTE to have last year’s endorsements carry over
Pre-board election stuff
Board election to be held in May — 3 open seats!
Give people opportunity to speak
Mobile Home MOU update. VOTE to support residents’ coalition (City Council meeting April 20)
Safe parking in Mountain View and Sunnyvale – Janet Werkman
Homeless housing at hotel 555 El Camino Real (VOTE TO ENDORSE)
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 Where: Click here to register for the Meeting link
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 Where: Click here to register for the Meeting link Register in advance or register right before joining the meeting. After registering, Zoom will email you the link to join the meeting.
AGENDA
Sunnyvale’s Study Issues Roundup – Richard
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:
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,
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.
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!
Please join us for Livable Sunnyvale’s November General Meeting
When: Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Where: Click here to register for the Meeting link Register in advance or register right before joining the meeting. After registering, Zoom will email you the link to join the meeting.
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:
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
