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Category Archives: Santa Clara County
Mountain View North Bayshore Transportation Plan to have better bike, shuttle, and transportation demand management
On February 5, the Mountain View City Council is expected to consider an updated version of the draft Transportation Plan for the North Bayshore Area, the site of Google’s headquarters. The new version is expected to include stronger provisions for … Continue reading
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Mountain View provides new incentives to use transit, shift mode share
In recent weeks, in individual new developments and plans for districts, Mountain View is moving forward with a variety of ways to incent transit use and shift mode share away from driving alone. Nonprofit Transportation Management Association In a new … Continue reading
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Revised San Antonio development turns parking lots into street grid; Council prioritizes investments in bike, pedestrian, and car trip reduction
The Mountain View City Council last week agreed to let the next phase of a major development to move forward, guided largely by the visioning process held in the second half of 2012. At least at the sketch level, it … Continue reading
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Palo Alto moves forward on parking crunch, both supply and demand
On March 18, Palo Alto City Council advanced a set of short-term and long term measures to address a parking crunch, addressing supply, management, and demand. While the topic that got the most public comment was the residential parking permit … Continue reading
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Tuesday Feb 26: A tight vote is expected in Sunnyvale on Lawrence Station Area Plan
This coming Tuesday, February 26, Sunnyvale City Council will give direction on the Lawrence Station Area Plan. The plan they will review, crafted with input from the Citizens Advisory Committee, proposes to transform the disjointed area into a mixed used … Continue reading
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Mountain View City Council considers “trip cap” for North Bayshore area
In reviewing a transportation study for the “North Bayshore area” where Google is headquartered, the Mountain View City Council were leaning toward a policy that would cap vehicle trips at the current level of 22,700 trips per day. The Council also … Continue reading
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Mountain View BPAC recommends road diets in upcoming city budget
On Wednesday, January 30, the Mountain View Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee recommended road diets on California Street and Castro Street (south of El Camino) for inclusion in the city’s Capital Improvement Plan, which sets out the capital projects and other large … Continue reading
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Mountain View Council to consider San Antonio Vision further before inviting Merlone Geier back
At last night’s meeting, the Mountain View City Council reviewed and accepted the results of the community visioning process for the San Antonio area, with strong agreement about a mix of uses with continued retail, plus office, homes and services; public … Continue reading
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Visions for San Antonio: better walking and biking; more school capacity and green space; divided on density
In two visioning sessions and two online surveys in late 2012 (Survey #1, Survey #2), Mountain View residents and stakeholders shared their visions of the San Antonio area, currently dominated by big box retail and car-oriented shopping. While a visioning step … Continue reading
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Sunnyvale seeks improvements to disconnected, underutilized Lawrence Station Area
On a cloudy Saturday, December 15, Friends of Caltrain, Sunnyvale Cool Cities and the Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter Sustainable Land Use Committee partnered on a walking tour to learn more about the City of Sunnyvale’s plans to update the … Continue reading
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