CNA Board Meeting Minutes

Date:  March 10, 2021

Start time:  7:00 PM – 7:34 PM PST

Where:  Zoom meeting

Attendees: Art Maurice, Kirk Vartan, Kathy Moe, Willard Simms, Kevin Roderick, Linda Brennan, Faye Mowery, St. John Johnson, Felicia Hipps

Items to discuss:

1. Approval of February minutes
   1. Approved

• Finance report – Kathy Moe
  • Chase – same as last month, $4417.27
  • Meriwest – $10,083.75, $0.78 of interest

• Next General Meeting – April 26
  • Councilwoman Dev Davis
    • When will the streets resurfacing happening?
  • State Assemblyman Evan Low 
    • Do we want to ask him anything specifically? 
      • 3/13 Stop AAPI Hate Crimes Rally
  • Potential 3^rd Speakers:
    • Supervisor Susan Ellenberg
    • New Valley Fair manager
      • Westfield is being sold
      • Valley Fair is single biggest Bay Area attraction, 20 million visitors
    • Speaker from Catalyze SV Duplexes, Triplexes & Quadplexes panel
      • Meetings on topic also going on in Santa Clara
      • Does it mean our neighborhoods will transform? How quickly? What are the finances?

• Open Forum:
  • Valley Fair Mall is up for sale
    • https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/11/covid-retail-valley-fair-oakridge-mall-owner-seeks-slash-u-s-holdings/
  • Catalyze SV – Zoom Meeting Duplexes & Triplexes & Quadplexes, Oh My!
    • Mon, March 22, 2021, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM PDT
    • https://www.eventbrite.com/e/duplexes-triplexes-quadplexes-oh-my-tickets-141807998541
  • Don Weden – URBANISM AFTER THE PANDEMIC, Alternative Scenarios for Santa Clara County
    • March 25, 2021, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT
    • https://www.livablesunnyvale.org/2021/01/31/special-event-don-weden-urbanism-after-the-pandemic/
    • Speaks about how Santa Clara County evolves over time, how it has evolved over time, choices and implications, what can we do. 
    • Consistent over last decade or so about creating walkable neighborhoods. 
    • What are some of the options given where we are during the pandemic compared to where we were?
    • Not viable for General Meeting, 2 hrs and 300 slides
  • Chalk drawings – photos on website with child’s name
    • Cory ART: pumpkins, painted rocks, chalk drawings, fairy gardens, native gardens
    • Gallery at Cory General Meeting of the Art Theme
  • Little Libraries – photos with map on website
  • Slow period of the year… Dumpster Day is usually in the Fall, but used to be in May
  • Valley Fair Sale/Westfield Sale – reimagine Valley Fair, keep evolving it
    • Thought experiment: If the Safeway and CVS went away, and replace it with an “the 88” type high-rise (25-35 stories) with a quality grocery on the ground floor, and the strip along Winchester, with 6-7 floor blended community housing, to create a real mixed-use feel for Valley Fair…
    • Now that it’s being sold, it is actually possible
    • Ties into Urban Village discussion
  • BAREC/Agrihood Property – supposed to start Q1, break ground end of this month
    • Directly motivated to get started because start time tied to financing
    • Supposed to break ground last year, but financing delayed
    • Went through tax credit approval 5 months ago
    • $200 million project, half is grant they do not have to pay back
    • 36 for-sale homes
    • 150 market-rate apartments (1 acre) is only risk out of 6 acres