When: Wednesday, August 4,  6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

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AGENDA

1. Announcements (5 minutes)
   • Redistricting Meeting on Aug 5th
   • SB9 Letters to Becker
   • AB1401 Letters to Berman
2. Board Special Election (one vacancy) (10 minutes)
3. SVL Meeting Format: Call to Action for Public Comment & VOTE on Livable Sunnyvale position (5 minutes)
4. Mobile Home MOU status (10 minutes)
5. Impacts to Sunnyvale of the current catastrophic drought — Gustav Larsson, Sunnyvale Council Member (30 minutes)
   • As a new Council Member in 2014, Gustav Larsson was appointed to Sunnyvale’s seat on the board of the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency (BAWSCA), which represents the 26 Bay Area cities and water districts that purchase water from San Francisco’s Hetch Hetchy system. Today, after almost 8 years on the board, he serves as BAWSCA’s board chair where he has become deeply involved in water issues affecting the 1.8 million people in BAWSCA’s service area.
6. Housing Element 101 and more — Aaron Eckhouse of CA YIMBY (30 minutes)
   • What is the Housing Element?  It’s hugely important for housing advocates to get involved to make sure plans for the next 8 years of housing are fair and feasible!  
   • Note: Livable Sunnyvale plans to be very involved in our city’s process.
7. Orchard Gardens Introduction & Overview — Jose Lujano of First Community Housing (20 minutes)
   • Orchard Gardens is a new affordable housing project in Sunnyvale being planned by First Community Housing.  The plans for the re-development of 245 Weddell Drive include the development of 123 affordable apartments, with 15 apartments for people with developmental disabilities.

Recordings of Past Speaking Events: 

• Professor Michael Lens – What Works in Making Housing More Affordable
  • More About Professor Lens
• Professor Jessica Trounstine discusses the themes of her awarding winning book, Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities 
  • More About Professor Trounstine
• Don Weden – Urbanism After the Pandemic, What futures should we be preparing for? 
• Professor Willow Lung-Amam – Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Sonora Court & Orchard Gardens Endorsement Meeting, August 18, 6:30

Special event: Forum on Safe Parking and the Unhoused in Sunnyvale, September 23rd, 7:00 pm

Please join us!  This meeting starts at 6PM so we can squeeze everything in! 

When: Wednesday, July 7,  6 PM to 8:30 PM

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AGENDA

1. Announcements (5 minutes)
2. Legislation Updates (5 minutes)
   • SB 9, SB 10, AB 1401 (Richard)
   • Eviction Moratorium Emergency Endorsement (Janette)
     • Now Law
3. Safe Parking Report (30 + 10 minutes)
   • Site Overview (Coleen Housler)
   • Fry’s former Sunnyvale site (Jim Davis)
4. Mobile Home MOU update (5+10 minutes)
5. Environmental Benefits of Missing Middle Housing (Justin20 + 10 minutes)
6. Project Scoring, Fremont Corners (40 minutes)
   • Endorsement VOTE based on scoring (10 minutes)

Recordings of Past Speaking Events: 

• Professor Michael Lens – What Works in Making Housing More Affordable
  • More About Professor Lens
• Professor Jessica Trounstine discusses the themes of her awarding winning book, Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities 
  • More About Professor Trounstine
• Don Weden – Urbanism After the Pandemic, What futures should we be preparing for? 
• Willow Lung-Amam – Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia

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
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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
• Multi-Family Housing Update (Richard, Mehlinger)

When: Wednesday, May 19, 2021,  12 noon to 1:30 pm
If you missed the event you can view a recording at Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia .

This event is part of SV@Home’s Affordable Housing Month 

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. 

Recordings of Past Speaking Events: 

• Professor Willow Lung-Amam – Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia
• Professor Michael Lens – What Works in Making Housing More Affordable
  • More About Professor Lens
• Professor Jessica Trounstine discusses the themes of her awarding winning book, Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities 
  • More About Professor Trounstine
• Don Weden – Urbanism After the Pandemic, What futures should we be preparing for? 

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
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AGENDA

1. 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
2. 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
3. SB 9/10, VOTE to have last year’s endorsements carry over
4. Pre-board election stuff 
   • Board election to be held in May — 3 open seats!
   • Give people opportunity to speak
5. Mobile Home MOU update. VOTE to support residents’ coalition (City Council meeting April 20)
6. 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
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Come join us for some very important topics:

1. Protecting the Juristac Sacred Grounds,

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

1. Sunnyvale’s Study Issues Roundup – Richard
2. 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:
   • Protect Juristac Resource Guide
   • 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,
   • www.protectjuristac.org
3. Sacramento City Council approved Fourplexes – Ansel Lundberg from House Sacramento.  Here are three write up’s on this:
   • Sacramento Bee in-depth article
   • From the Terner Center
   • From Strong Towns
4. Small Groups discussion on Multi-Family Housing in Sunnyvale

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:   

1. Announcements (10 min)
2. Neighborhood-Scale Multi-Family Housing Initiative (30 min) – VOTE
3. Nancy Smith on League of Cities: housing and local control (15 minutes)
4. Propose softening local control legislative priority as pertains to housing (15 min) – VOTE
5. MOU letter to the city (15 min) – VOTE
6. Santa Clara Community Advocates presents (15 min)
7. Make MV YIMBY our coalition partnership?  (5 min) – VOTE

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)