Greetings everyone!  The draft of Livable Sunnyvale’s platform is attached.  If you have a chance, please take a look before the meeting.

We will be meeting this Friday July 19th from 6 pm to 8 pm at the new AC Hotel, 597 E. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale.This is a SPECIAL gathering to discuss and progress our Housing Platform. The Steering Committee has developed a first draft which will serve as the basis for small group discussions on the key areas of the Platform.   

There are many housing related proposals, a transportation section and a climate section to flesh out.  We have invited our coalition partners and hope many of you will come to share your ideas and comments on these areas of concern at this important juncture!  

This is an opportunity to focus our advocacy efforts for the upcoming election season.  After our Platform is approved by our membership, we will have “task force” sign-ups and have our members talk to each Council person individually and also meet with key City staff. The Platform will be distributed to the Council, staff, interested Commissions and others before the City presents their Housing Strategy in the hopes that we can influence perception of the issues, consideration of new ordinances, as well as the outcomes of proposed measures!

Livable Sunnyvale has done this in the past with an El Camino Real Specific Plan Platform that turned out to be very influential and was referred to often!

Please come!P.S. If you want to come early to the hotel: here is their Happy Hour menu.  If you would like to join for dinner after the meeting at the hotel, here are the dinner and drinks menus.