Update on Santa Clara City Parks

Last week I sent an action alert asking you to speak up for Santa Clara City parks. For those of you who couldn’t make it to the city council meeting on January 26, I wanted to share a quick update with you. At the meeting, the councilmembers voted to create a task force to come up with a methodology for calculating park impact fees. There will be 2 members of the task force from the environmental community, and I’ve been recommended to be one of them.

Although we would have preferred it if the city council had followed their staff’s recommendation without spending extra time to review the existing methodology, I’m looking forward to being on the task force and hopeful that in the end we will be able to create a fair park impact fee for Santa Clara.

Thank you for joining me and Committee for Green Foothills in speaking up for local parks. I’ll keep you posted as this issue moves forward. In the meantime, feel free to email me if you’d like to get more involved.