After the success of our last residential meeting, we will have a follow-up meeting on 25 March at 7:00 p.m.  We are looking for a place to meet that has sufficient parking because the library is already booked for that night.  I will most-likely send out updates via e-mail, so if you are not on our e-mail distribution list and would like an update, please let me know your address.

The original push for these meetings was the joint meeting between the City Council and the Planning Commission to discuss the General Plan on 26 March, but it looks as though that meeting has been canceled.  There is no alternative meeting scheduled yet, so I will have to get back to you when I have more information.

Equally disappointing is that the Santa Clara General Plan Update site has been up for a while, but it isn’t very useful.  That would have been the best place to announce the joint meeting, or even the cancellation and rescheduling.   But after several weeks, there is no mention of the meeting — or even how to become involved or what the schedule is.  Remember, the Santa Clara city newsletter requested that people get involved almost a month ago and pointed us to that web site.  Maybe this post will spur them into action.  You know there is a problem when their site gets updated less often than this site does.

Poorly-managed Density is the problem.  The General Plan is the enabler.  Fairfield Residential is merely baffoonish in its effort to force their project into our neighborhoods with specious claims, inaccurate designations, and hollow neighborhood liaising.

Active residents are the solution.  We aren’t quite there yet, but we are learning every day.  I’ll see you at the meeting.  Let’s fix things.

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