In the News: Advocating for Santa Clara City Parks

Advocate Alice Kaufman was in the Santa Clara Weekly yesterday. In the article, Council Establishes Task Force to Figure Out How to Calculate Development Fees (2/17/16), Carolyn Schuk explains what’s next for Santa Clara city parks.

Schuk mentions our recent “letter-writing campaign, organized…to tell Santa Clara City Council to Protect Parks, because developers are pushing councilmembers to reduce these fees by >35%. This would leave the city without adequate funds … for new parks.”

She went on the quote Alice’s letter saying that, “It is a simple fact that land values have risen dramatically in the 2 years since the study that established the fee schedule,” wrote Green Foothills legislative analyst Alice Kaufman. Further, she noted the fee ordinance allows developers to donate parkland in lieu of fees and ask for fee reconsideration.