进展更新:反对Pleasanton过度发展high density housing


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今天收到Geroge Bowen,反对Pleasanton high density housing的发起人的回复。大概要点如下:
1. 在上周的city council meeting上,代表informal group "Concerned Pleasanton Citizens", Geroge Bowen呈交了超过300个签名反对过度的发展high density housing。在过去个一周内,George Bowen又收到超过100个签名。
2. "Concerned Pleasanton Citizens" 寄出了超过2000个mailer,每一个mailer有回复到city council的信封。到目前city收到了超过200个反对high density housing的回信。
3. 呼吁的目标是:(a) 减慢high density housing的发展,直到Pleasanton有足够的水源,学校和其他设施支持这些发展; (b) 建造法律许可的最低层数,不建高达4层的high density housing;(c) 这些high density housing 不应紧靠single family neighborhoods。
4. 今年是选举年。city council member Cheryl Cook-Kallio不再参选(termed out),另一member Kathy Narum以及市长Thorne都会再次参选。面对选举压力,如果我们强烈表达心声,这些官员会砍除或减少1292套不需要的单位。city已经批准了1600套。

我们可以做的:
1. 给市长和city council写email。citycouncil@ci.pleasanton.ca.us
2.让你的邻居们给市长和city council写email。
3. 参加以下的City Council and Planning Commission meetings:
(a) August 13 - Planning Commission会确定housing element的草案;
(b) August 19 - City Council会议。这次会议不讨论housing element,但是在会前可对这个议题发言,非常重要;
(c) September 2 - 这一个会议City Council 会最后确定housing elements,这将决定Pleasanton未来8年的发展规划。
4. 请到Facebook “like" https://www.facebook.com/votersforsmartgrowth , 并转告您的朋友们。
5. 如果您有更好建议,请转告我们。

补充一点,请到 http://www.Pleasantonvotersforsmartgrowth.org 签名反对过度发展high density housing。

以下是Geroge Bowen邮件全文:

Thank you for joining our informal group of concerned Pleasanton citizens. 

The response has been tremendous now that the word is getting out.  At last week’s City Council meeting we handed in over 300 signatures from the petition we have been circulating and have over 100 more to be delivered.  We also sent a mailer out to 2,000 residents with a return mailer that could be mailed to the City Council.  They have received over 200 of those mailers.  So the City Council has received over 600 communications from residents all expressing the same sentiment – Drastically slow growth until we have the water, schools and infrastructure to support it.  And, we don’t want any more high-density four story projects than we must have to meet the legal minimums - and those projects should be located in areas not adjacent to single family neighborhoods. 

This is election season with one Council seat open (Cheryl Cook-Kallio is termed out), another Council member, Kathy Narum, is running for re-election, and Mayor Thorne is running fore re-election. 

Having walked the neighborhoods with the petition, several people expressed the sentiment that it is a hopeless fight because of losing the lawsuit.  I disagree.  I am convinced that if the Council sees that the vast majority of people in Pleasanton are opposed to unnecessary growth, particularly in an election season, they will eliminate or reduce the excess inventory of high-density zoned parcels, which are zoned for 1,292 un-need housing units.  We have over 1,600 new units that have been already approved for building in various projects across the city.

Your efforts will make a difference.

  • Please consider doing the following:
  • 1.     Email the Mayor and City Council.  It doesn’t need to be long.  They keep each letter as public record and provide copies to each council member. Here is their email address - citycouncil@ci.pleasanton.ca.us
  • 2.     Get your neighbors to email or mail a letter to the City Council  Every resident they hear from makes our case more convincing!
  • 3.     Attend the upcoming City Council and Planning Commission meetings.  Make your thoughts known! 
    • a.     August 13 – Planning Commission finalizes the draft of the Housing Element
    • b.     August 19 – City Council meets.  They are not planning to address the Housing Element, but it’s important to make comments at the beginning of the meeting.
    • c.      September 2 – The City Council plans to finalize the Housing Element. This will seal the future of our growth for the next eight years
  • 4.     If you are on Facebook, like our Facebook page and share it with your Pleasanton friends. https://www.facebook.com/votersforsmartgrowth

If there are any ways you can think of to communicate with the City Council how important this is to our city’s residents, please let me know.

Thanks for being involved.  Let me know how I can help you help this critical cause.

 

George Bowen