BAREC
was placed on the agenda by request of Kirk Vartan. Many people
spoke and a lot of perspectives, suggestions, and information were
shared with the Council.
We
have made the entire 36 minute section of the meeting available
via video below. Additionally, we have broken-up the video into
multiple segments, allowing you to easily see specific testimony
from citizens and Council members, making it easier to hear the
information you are interested in. We listed some highlight quotes
from the video in the right column; however, in case there are any
questions about the context of the statements, we are also providing
the entire video for viewing. Simply click on a quote on the right,
and the video of the person saying those words will start. The hand-outs
given at the meeting are linked at the bottom of this column.
City
Introduction:
> City Manager
Introduction (3 minutes - 800KB)
> Planning
Director Introduction (4 minutes - 1MB)
> City Manager
Introduction (1 minute - 400KB)
Citizen comments:
> Kirk Vartan/Marguerite
Lee (6 minutes - 1.8MB)
> Master Gardener Sharon
McCray (3 minutes - 1MB)
> Lauren McCutcheon
(2 minutes - 600KB)
> Suzie Keels (1 minute
- 300KB)
> Andy Grammet (2 minutes
- 700KB)
> Bill Romano (2 minutes
- 500KB)
City Staff/Council responses and comments:
> City
Staff response - Goodfellow (2 minutes - 400KB)
> Councilmember Caserta
(2 minutes - 500KB)
> Councilmember Mathews
(2 minutes - 600KB)
> Councilmember Moore
(2 minutes - 700KB)
> Mayor Mahan (3 minutes
- 800KB)
Four
documents were shared with the City Council and the audience. Click
on any one of them:
1.
Kirk Vartan's Introduction, 2.
Pre-meeting notes and information, 3.
BAREC's supporter list, and
4. The San Jose
Park's Committee letter, showing complete support for keeping
BAREC as open space.
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The
following quotes can be clicked on to hear and
see the actual video from the following people:
Planning
Director Goodfellow:
"Those decisions
[current development discussions] are merely preliminary, and the
project will have to go through the full Environmental Impact [Report]
review, General Plan amendment re-zoning, and probably sub-division
maps before any final decisions can be made on the site."
"Closing
on that [sales agreement] is contingent on the approval of the plans,
just as it would be for the senior portion."
"Yes, the property
is contaminated...the worst [soil] contamination will be physically
removed."
Councilmember Caserta states:
"I just cannot
stand here and say let's just have it [BAREC] all open space."
"Where's the money
to do this?"
Councilmember Mathews states:
"I'm a fifth generation,
native Santa Claran. My great, great, great, grandfather went out
and fought; he's one of those Civil War people."
"The history that
I'm going to make is going to be made today...to get this site developed..."
"We're not going
to resolve Santana Row's issues of traffic or Valley Fair's traffic
by not developing this site..."
Councilmember Moore states:
"I
know there's a park; I'd like to see it be a little bit bigger.
But, I think that neighborhood needs a park."
Mayor Mahan states:
"The reality is,
the property is going to be developed... and there's nothing we
can do to stop it. We can't withhold zoning arbitrarily, unless
you want to subject this City to a lawsuit that will bankrupt it...and,
it's just not going to happen, and I'm sorry to say, that's just
the reality of it."
Entire
video of the Council meeting:
Complete
video (36 minutes - 9MB)
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