Important meetings and announcements week of April 16th

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Apr 16, 2023, 9:22:43 PM4/16/23
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In addition to Anthony's Mountain View RoundUp from April 10th.
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Bruce 

Notices
  • Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition Biketivist Forum meeting this week:
    See details in "Meetings and events this week".
  • Comment letters in development for this week:
    No letters are planned for this week, but verbal comments anticipated for some of the agenda items listed below as red text as applicable. If you have comments/suggestions for any of those, please share them by replying to this email and/or posting to the Mountain View Advocacy Slack channels.
  • Community Meeting re: Greystar/Chase Bank Site Redevelopment from Kathy Thibodeaux:
    Dear Community and Neighborhood Leaders and Interested Parties,
    My client, Greystar, will be holding a Community Meeting on Thursday, April 20, 2023 to provide an update on its proposal to redevelop the Chase Bank site at El Camino and Castro Street with a new Chase Bank, rental apartments, ground floor retail, and a public plaza. The meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. at the Second Stage, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
    Please see the attached meeting invitation and share as appropriate with your groups. (This was also direct mailed to residents and property owners near the site using a list provided by the City of Mountain View.)
    I’m happy to answer questions. Thank you.
    Kathy Thibodeaux
    KM Thibodeaux Consulting LLC
    Phone (408) 482-3910
    Email ka...@kmthibodeaux.com
    Web www.kmthibodeaux.com
  • North Bayshore Open House from Google:
    From The North Bayshore Master Plan Project Team:
    Thank you to all who participated in our North Bayshore community meetings in September and to everyone who has engaged with us over the last two years. As we enter the final stretch of the North Bayshore master planning process, we’re excited to host an in-person open house on Saturday, April 22, 2023, from 9 to 11 am. Please feel free to drop by anytime during the open house to meet our team, learn about the North Bayshore Master Plan, and enjoy some refreshments and activities.
    RSVP
    This event will be hosted outside at 1245 Charleston Road. You are encouraged to bike or walk to the event, but there will also be ample parking accessible from both Charleston Road and Shorebird Way. As this is an outdoor event, and the weather has been mixed over the past couple of months, we do encourage you to bring a jacket. In the event it does rain, weatherproof tents will be available.
    We hope you can join us! As always, please feel free to reach out to us at any time via email at northb...@google.com.
  • April 22nd Bike MV - Earth Day Event:
    From Brandon Whyte, our primary partner in Public Works on transportation planning:
    I am sending you a quick invite to the Saturday, April 22nd, bike ride (https://www.meetup.com/bike-mountain-view/events/292900871/). We’ll meet at the MV Community Center (201 S. Rengstorff Avenue) at 10 AM and leave for our bike ride. This month, we’ll be a small part of Mountain View’s Earth Day event.
    This will be a 9-mile ride up to North Bayshore to talk about the landfill, then over to the rookery on Shorebird Way to learn about the native bird habit there, then a short stop along the trail and back to the Community Center. The ride will mostly be on trails and neighborhood streets at a moderate pace. To see the exact route, click below.
    Ride Route: https://www.plotaroute.com/route/2205876?units=miles
    Please consider riding with us if you can. Please share the ride with friends. And if you can’t make it, as always, let me know (via email) what we can do to make Mountain View even better,
    Also, please consider checking out the other festivities occurring at the Community Center for Earth Day. Details below.
    To celebrate Earth Day with the City of Mountain View on Saturday, April 22, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Mountain View Community Center, 201 S. Rengstorff Ave.
    Enjoy an active day of sustainable fun, including:
    - Activities for the whole family.
    - Fun and informational booths.
    - Electric vehicle test drives.
    - Interesting presentations on clean energy, zero-waste, sustainable food systems, and biodiversity.
    - Bike repair/adjustment station.
    - Sustainability bicycling tour.
    - Plant-based lunch (free to the first 250 attendees).
    - Native plant potting and seed giveaways.
    Register online at evevent.org/mv-earthday for lunch, prizes, and giveaways, and to pre-register to take an electric vehicle for a test drive!
  • El Monte Corridor Study at B/PAC meeting:
    The El Monte Corridor Study will get yet another round of input from BPAC on April 26th.
  • Ask VTA: Bicycle & Pedestrian Programs:
    From VTA:
    We’re kicking off National Bike Month with an Ask VTA event about bicycle and pedestrian travel in Santa Clara County.
    Monday, May 1, 2023
    6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
    Online via Zoom: https://askvtabikeped.eventbrite.com/
    In this facilitated Q&A session, VTA transportation planners will be on hand to answer questions about bicycle superhighways, Complete Streets, Safe Routes to School programs, and other topics. So before you grab your helmet and bike to wherever, please join us to learn more about these projects and programs.
  • May community bike ride planning:
    From Brandon Whyte:
    I’m going to do a ride on May 13th that will be for the ATP and crowd-sourced. Meaning I’ll email folks and ask for locations they want the consultant to experience. The consultant for the ATP will be in town that day and riding with us. So we can take her where ever needs to be seen.
    Questions for you:
    - Do you want this to be our only May ride? Or should we do two? The consultant lives in Phoenix and won’t be back for a while.
    - Where do you think we should go with active transportation in mind?
  • Bike to Work (& Wherever) Days are back!:
    Mountain View is joining cities around the Bay Area, May 18–20, to organize Energizer Stations for a celebration of bicycling as a fun and healthy way to get around.  Please consider helping as a volunteer at one or more of our Energizer Stations. Encourage people to try biking for more trips—for errands, commutes, and fun, and to cheer for people who bike and give away free gifts, treats and information about active transportation, including bike routes and bike safety for bicyclists. We also need help with set-up and clean-up. You can volunteer at any of these local Energizer stations:
    - Mountain View Transit Center at Castro and Evelyn (in collaboration with VTA)
    - Stevens Creek Trail at Evelyn
    - Day Workers Center on Escuela (organized by Day Workers of Mountain View)
    - City Hall Plaza on Castro (organized by Fenwick and West)
    Learn more about the event here: https://bikesiliconvalley.org/events/btwd.
    Sign up to volunteer here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpXL3NjWZ5NMmk2DMofQHIy5Qj6gYvdev9HTI5eX1CHlF9sw/viewform and please let Bruce know so he can add you to the tracking doc at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vtKeaKEGoSYOFgtXwMY4XBv1bFqUaZ1zjUa-ezna7cA/edit?usp=sharing.
  • Volunteers requested re Bike bus from Los Altos Hills to Egan Junior High School:
    from Jill Woodford in Los Altos:
    I am working with Safe Routes to Downtown Los Altos. We are trying to schedule a bike bus from Los Altos Hills to Egan Junior HS on Wed., May 3rd to bring awareness to the dangers children face trying to  cross Foothill Expressway on the way to school. We are working with City and County Officials, as well as other local groups to push for safety improvements along the entire Foothill Corridor, but our primary focus is the Edith Intersection at this time.
    I am looking for a few adults to help the kids bike from Los Altos Hills to Egan which will take about 1-1.5 hours total. If you might be able to help out, I would love to be connected.
    Please contact Jill at jil...@me.com.
Continued Notices
  • The City still doesn't fully have a public-facing hybrid meeting process in place 😢:
    Short version: They are working on it, so there is hope. However there is work to be done.
    For example, the Human Relations Commission, Parks and Recreation Commission, Public Safety Advisory Board, Senior Advisory Committee, and Youth Advisory Committee have not been doing this so far.
    If you care about this, please contact City Council to urge them to expedite the solution. Adequate public access is being compromised through this until it's fixed.
    Similarly, you can sign this petition to tell the county to reinstate virtual public comment.
    What the City is saying on delays to public-facing hybrid meetings:
    Thank you for your inquiry regarding hybrid public meetings. This email was forwarded to me for a response on behalf of the City Council. The Council is blind copied on this response.
    Meetings of the City Council and the Environmental Planning Commission are currently accessible in person, on Zoom, and on the City’s YouTube page. Additionally, meetings of the Rental Housing Committee will also be accessible in person or on Zoom. Members of the public who wish to participate in these meetings can choose between attending and commenting in person or via Zoom.
    The City is committed to community engagement, including enhanced access to public meetings, and recognizes the importance of remote participation options to our community. City staff is working on enabling remote public participation at Council subcommittee meetings and all other Council Advisory Body meetings. This includes upgrading meeting rooms, identifying and assigning additional staff members to attend advisory body meetings to manage the expanded tasks associated with supporting both in-person and remote meeting elements,  writing policies and procedures, and training staff to ensure consistent and effective meetings.
    Recent upgrades at City Hall will allow us to begin piloting remote public participation for in-person meetings next month with a small number of meeting bodies in which community members have expressed particular interest for a hybrid option. Staff is continuing work on upgrading meeting rooms throughout the City, though this work is taking longer than expected due to delayed receipt of equipment orders and a need to integrate the new technology with existing AV systems and room configurations.
    Staff will be testing the technology and building capacity to run meetings that support meaningful and organized participation for in-person and virtual attendees to pave the way for the increased adoption of remote participation through June and widespread adoption in Fall 2023, following the summer hiatus. This phased approach is intended to minimize technological errors, facilitate consistency between meeting bodies, and ensure sufficient staffing and staff training for effective hybrid public meetings.
  • If you have anything related to the local team you'd like to talk with Bruce about, contact him anytime at bken...@gmail.com, and we'll set up a call or video session. We can discuss anything, by the way, not just related to the local team. There's a lot going on, and I want to be there for you, whatever you need. Seriously.
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