Santa Clara leaders approve citizen-led effort to rebuild downtown 60 years after being demolished
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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2023
- Last week, the Santa Clara City Council approved a proposal to rebuild its downtown, including new homes, businesses and public space. But the plan didn't come from a developer or city planner. It came from a group of residents who have spent years trying to correct a mistake the city made 60 years ago. John Ramos reports. (12/13/23)
Excellent story by John Ramos. Did not know where downtown Santa Clara was. Thought it was on the El Camino.
Love this story!
It's been 5 months since this video was published, has there been any progress on this project?
We have had 4 or 5 Groundbreaking Delays for the Uptown, Santa Clara Related Project. That is supposed to happen just across the street from Levi’s Stadium.
6-8 story buildings in a dense, concentrated block would be incredible. Plan for 100+ years, not 10 years
Hopefully something can happen. All most people know of Santa Clara is Levi stadium, the monetary and SCU that’s mostly all
Where this will go... I was thinking about GBH posted a series of videos about the Boston Big Dig where it begans with "visionaries" in mid 20th century had grand plans and erected the most horrible freeway ever. Then through a series citizen grassroots activism plus a brilliant MIT educated civil engineer (who as a little boy saw his grandmother lose her house for only $1 in the name of a modern freeway) was along with other key individuals rectify past mistakes. It was expensive, not always perfect. I am wondering if rebuilding Santa Clara downtown will be a similar story.
Valley Fair is like downtown now
Where was the old downtown located?
Historically, Benton to Lafayette, Lafayette to Homestead, Homestead to Lincoln, Lincoln to Benton - 14 sq. blocks. But eight blocks (from Monroe to Lafayette, excluding Franklin Mall) is what's currently envisioned.
The 1960s were such a shit decade.
Franklin Mall has always been a sh*t show, it's just a bus transfer and post office.
The blind visionaries of the mid century deserve a monument to their short sightedness. Something to commemorate their disgrace and will help to perpetuate the memory of what they did and to forever link them to their ignomy
It's already there, the "plaque of sorrow" as what Mary Grizzle points to. It really is there, placed in 1966 with the names of those responsible.
Could have had BART around the bay too if not for that same short sightedness back then.
The current plans are fairly conservative. It maintains the existing grid layout, allowing cars everywhere, while extra open space for pedestrians is kept to a minimum. A lot of lost opportunities. And poor Mary. She may see a single building or two rise but this is going to take many years until final completion and an actual new downtown is realized.
We are advancing this with federal and state funding options now so the city owned parking lot next to Lafayette St starts in the next 3 years. We see this same funding going to Sunnyvale and San Jose - all we have to do is apply for it. Last mile transit with a modern day trolley is one of major goals connecting people like me who do not ride bikes to one of the oldest train stations in the bay area. Affordable transit solutions is important factor with connected communities and we are speaking to top officials about this. We have to create these solutions first before get out of cars.
@@LighthouseTravelTour Interesting points. I'm hopeful a somewhat more interesting final plan can be envisioned as the current one seems too "polite" for no particular reason or audience.
It's a start! They can always intensify development if this first step is successful and people start hanging out there. The perfect is the enemy of the good. We very often forget about this in the Bay Area and then the NIMBYs divide and conquer us into building nothing because "it's not good enough".
@@TohaBgood2 Yes, a start. My fear is hearing future visitors in twenty-years time spending an evening in downtown Santa Clara and reporting it's, "okay." So much of everything that's built up around us these days seems to max out at just okay.
With thousand cities on the chopping block to be unincorporated and demolished etc alit of California four hundred something cities will be aced and sey la vie sinara no more city.
Time to stop spending and save some money.