The Merc’s Pizarro has an article about this year’s Sunnyvale Community Service Annual Auction, which is this Thursday, December 1st, from 5:00 to 7:30. Admission is free, but you’re requested to bring a bag of groceries. This is a terrific annual event, which benefits a wonderful Sunnyvale organization, so I encourage everyone to attend this event.
FollowVery short meeting, at least the main portion.
We started the evening with a 90-minute study session regarding the draft Land Use and Transportation Element/Climate Action Plan (LUTE/CAP), which was a four-way study session featuring Council, the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission, the Sustainability Commission, and the Planning Commission. The focus was really on the big-picture policy direction set by the documents, and not so much specific issues enumerated in the LUTE/CAP. It’s difficult to summarize 90 minutes of input from many different people with any accuracy. The sense I got was that there was not so much concern with the CAP as with the LUTE. Sustainability issues raised very little concern, other than the “point of sale” issues with real estate (the CAP proposes creating requirements for energy and sustainability audits of property prior to a property sale). But there was some pushback on the LUTE’s advocating for increased density, planning for population growth, and provisions for “neighborhood villages” at certain locations.
The Sunnyvale Downtown Association will be holding its annual Christmas Tree Lighting this Saturday, December 3rd at 4:30 p.m. on Murphy Avenue. Events will include the Columbia Middle School Concert Choir, the Spirit of Sunnyvale Marching Band, the Homestead High Choir, and a visit by Santa.
This is going to be a long one.
We start the evening with a four-way study session regarding the draft Land Use and Transportation Element (LUTE) and draft Climate Action Plan (CAP). The study session will include Council, the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission, the Sustainability Commission, and the Planning Commission. Since this involves a large amount of city policy and a large number of people, I expect there to be a lot of discussion. This will take place over at the Library, in program rooms A and B (joined). After this, we go back to Council Chambers for the regular meeting.
Pretty short night, all things considered. Councilmember Lee was absent (excused).
We started the evening with a study session to discuss our various intergovernmental relations assignments. There are some 20 or so local or regional bodies on which we get representation, and every year we reshuffle the assignments. Last year, the changes were pretty minimal, since it was in between elections. This year, with three seats changing, a lot of the assignments will be changing. In addition, it turns out that several assignments belonging to councilmembers who are still in office will be changing hands as well, since people have chosen to drop them (for various reasons, usually lack of interest or scheduling conflicts). So we went through who wants to relinquish what and who is interested in the available assignments. We will be voting on them at the January 10th meeting.