News Items
Neighborhood Meetings
New officers were elected at the last neighborhood meeting. The new board members are listed in the Board Members section. Past meeting minutes are available on the Yahoo group. The next meeting will be next quarter.
The 2008 dues are due in January and are still $10. You can bring this to any of the officers.
There is a District 6 Newsletters page. The link is on our resources page (use the Neighborhood Links link).
Council District 6
Links for our council district are:
http://www.sanjosec
BLOG: http://sanjoseinsid
Santa Clara Station Plan
The Santa Clara Station Area Plan (SCSAP) presented a plan draft in January. More about this at the next meeting.
Other News
We have a park schedule now!! From City of San Jose Park Manager, Simeon Mercado, the schedule for 2009 is:
Design Completion: April 2009
Advertise Project for Bids: May 2009
Contract Award by Council: July 2009
Complete Pre-construction Documents: August 2009
Construction Start: September 2009
Robson Homes is working on the second site for their Encanto development, The Grove. They have models open now for the front half of the development. Bollards and a chain were finally added to prevent vehicles from driving over the grass and sidewalk at Newhall and Campbell. Redevelopment of 1181 Campbell Ave - Barry Swensen Builders (currently the Zazzle Property). They want to turn this into Transit Oriented Development (20+ units/acre). This leaves the property open-ended for a potentially high density development. Previously, Swensen requested 55 units/acre, but they have no current plan and are requesting the 20+ designation for flexibility in their future decisions. Although Zazzle has a lease on the property until 2010, the neighborhood members present at the meeting expressed their concerns with this high density potential, the necessity of following this project for years, and the issues of traffic, parking, and environment related to a project this large. The neighbors expressed the desire to see the development request a 12-25/acre designation to match the nearby Robson Homes developments, so that it would fit in with the neighborhood better and cause less of an impact.
To see the properties still under discussion, see the map.
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