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We Can
Still Keep the Monsters Out of the 'Hood by Ken Eklund September 2003 |
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| The City Council hasn't made any decision yet about Alma Bowl. Some sources have characterized the Alma Bowl development proposal as a "done deal," but that's premature or wishful thinking. The San Jose City Council hasn't backed the project and they have plenty of reason not to: neighborhoods oppose it, it's inappropriate to its setting and it isn't the mixed-use, transit-oriented development that City Council originally envisioned in that space. Ken Yeager is officially opposed to buildings this tall outside of downtown; READ HIS POLICY STATEMENT HERE. | |||||||||||||
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Neighborhoods are on record as opposing the Alma Bowl project. Six surrounding neighborhoods are on record as opposing the project, and other neighborhoods support them. Both the Willow Glen Neighborhood Association (WGNA) and North Willow Glen Neighborhood Association (NWGNA) notified the City Council of their opposition to xhigh-density development in the Tamien area. The WGNA noted that "we fear this increase in height is the precursor to a request for maximum density on the site, or possibly a subsequent request to increase the already high density envisioned by the Area Plan... The residents near the Tamien Station already will be asked to bear the impacts of the high densities in the Plan, to ask them to take on further increases in height and density seems unfair." This was in 2001. HERE'S THE WGNA LETTER TO MAYOR GONZALES and CITY COUNCIL |
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Alma Bowl is currently the developer's dream concept of what they would like to get away with, if no one objects. The Alma Bowl/Spriggs Electric property is currently zoned Light Commercial. The developer has applied to change that zoning to Planned Development, which would allow the project to proceed. If the City Council rejects or amends that zoning, the developer will have to mitigate project impacts to proceed.
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