http://liveforeverodt.com/santaclara Keeping Our City an Okay Place to Live Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:30:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 900 Kiely Project ("Fairfield Residential Gallery at Central Park") now proposes 766 housing units on the old Kaiser-Permanente Hospital site (corner of Kiely Blvd & Kaiser Road) - down less than 5% from the original project plan. This still places an additional 2% of the City of Santa Clara ... http://liveforeverodt.com/santaclara/2009/08/17/final-decision-for-900-kiely-on-18-august-2009-at-700-pm/ At tonight's Santa Clara city council meeting, the 900 Kiely project was again up for discussion.  We would like to thank all of the people who came our for this meeting. The council voted to approve the EIR and the mitigation monitoring for the project, but deferred approval of the project ... http://liveforeverodt.com/santaclara/2009/06/17/city-council-ignores-planning-commission-recommendation/ Last night the City Council voted to set up a special meeting to discuss the 900 Kiely project (Fairfield Residential's Gallery at Central Park / old Kaiser Hospital)  on 16 June 2009, at 7:00 p.m. (Tuesday). This should be a special meeting dedicated to this project and, again, we should be ... http://liveforeverodt.com/santaclara/2009/05/20/special-city-council-meeting-set-up-to-discuss-the-900-kiely-project/ The Planning Commission found a number of problems with both the EIR and the project plan itself for the 900 Kiely project, or Fairfield Residential's Gallery at Central Park.  They felt by and large that Fairfield Residential's plan to build over 800 units at the old Kaiser hospital site was ... http://liveforeverodt.com/santaclara/2009/05/13/planning-commission-recommends-denial-of-the-900-kiely-project/ The Planning Commission will continue to hear neighbor testimony begun on 22 April concerning the 900 Kiely Project, a.k.a. Fairfield Residential's Gallery at Central Park, which proposes the construction of over 800 high-density housing units on the old Kaiser Permanente Hospital site at the corner of Kiely Blvd and Kaiser ... http://liveforeverodt.com/santaclara/2009/05/03/900-kiely-continues-on-13-may-2009/ The 900 Kiely Project, a.k.a. Fairfield Residential's Gallery at Central Park, proposes the construction of over 800 housing units on the old Kaiser-Permanente Hospital site at the corner of Kiely Blvd and Kaiser Road.  This would put an additional 2% of the City of Santa Clara at your doorstep with ... http://liveforeverodt.com/santaclara/2009/04/20/900-kiely-final-eir-up-for-approval/ We were deeply disappointed to see the response from a contingent of real estate brokers and former politicians who stand to gain substantially from the 900 Kiely project.  We have been to every one of the few opportunities to meet with the city and the developer concerning this project and ... http://liveforeverodt.com/santaclara/2009/04/19/whos-side-is-the-city-on/ [Edit: My earlier, unpublished posts will have to wait a bit.] Something interesting happened last night.  The Great Exchange Covenant Church applied for a Conditional Use Permit to allow for the establishment of a church in a Light Industrial zone (4600 Patrick Henry Drive).  They want to convert the building they ... http://liveforeverodt.com/santaclara/2008/10/09/double-standard/ This post underwent several major revisions.  I had originally titled the post "Endangered Species: Single-Family Homes" when I realized that, ostensibly, developers were building single-family houses -- not quite the same as homes, but marketed well enough to fool most.  So I thought about what was missing.  "Endangered Species: Large ... http://liveforeverodt.com/santaclara/2008/07/16/communities-and-lifestyles/ Thursday morning at 9:00 a.m. in the Santa Clara City Hall chambers, four cities got together to discuss how they could work together to prevent and resolve issues with large development projects, especially when they occur near city boundaries. The City of Sunnyvale initiated this meeting in response to ... http://liveforeverodt.com/santaclara/2008/06/27/multi-city-meeting-enhancing-our-community-and-vision/