News Items:
Neighborhood Meetings
The next neighborhood meeting is at 7:00pm, Monday, October 20, at the Quaker House, 1041 Morse St. Past meeting minutes are available on the Yahoo group. Saturday, 23 August is our district recycling day.
Location: Volunteer Center of Silicon Valley
1922 The Alameda, San Jose
In the former United Way Parking Lot
9 am - 3 pm
The 2008 dues are still $10. You can bring this to any of the officers.
There is now 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
Robson Homes is working on the second site for their Encanto development, to be called The Grove. Pulte and the city of San Jose are working on the plan to improve the cul de sac at Campbell and Newhall. Bollards and a chain will be added to prevent vehicles from driving over the grass and sidewalk. 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.
Other Topics
The San Jose City's Customer Service Call Center is 408.535.3500. You can use this number to call and be directed to other services. They will also take locations of shopping carts for collection.