Leave your Heart in Soquel Village
FAMILY MOVIE NIGHTS |
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The County is pleased to partner with Dominican Hospital and Dignity Health Medical Foundation to kick off our very first
2018 Heart of Soquel Plaza Park Family Movie Nights series! Please join us every third Thursday, starting May 17 with
Coco, June 21, The
Goonies, July 19,
Despicable Me 3, August 16,
Jumanji, September 20,
Wonder, and the finale on October 18, Black Panther. Bring your lawn chair, blanket, and a sweater and join us under the stars as admission and parking are free thanks to the generosity of our community sponsors. Kids can come in their pajamas and bring their sleeping bags and pillows. All the movies will begin at 8:00 p.m. Let's support our community and spread goodwill by supporting our local merchants in Soquel Village for some food and other treats beforehand. We encourage everybody to come out for some good old-fashioned fun. We will have a fundraising drawing each night, so be sure to spread the word and come leave your heart in Soquel Plaza Park. If you or your business is interested in sponsoring one of our future series, please contact my office. Many thanks again to Dominican Hospital and Dignity Health Medical Foundation for your generosity!
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| Capitola Road Project Taking Shape |
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Over the past year, the County has taken the initial steps in selling the property it owns on Capitola Road. Last spring, at a community meeting, we looked at both the County's site and the adjacent parcel on the corner of 17th Avenue and Capitola Road. The results from that meeting were included in a Request for Proposals (RFP) sent to developers. Three proposals were received, and one was disqualified for not following the RFP guidelines. The County chose MidPen Housing as the developer to work with exclusively. They have a joint project with the Santa Cruz Community Health Centers (East Cliff Family Health Center & Women's Health Center) and Dientes Dental Clinic. In the middle of April, both the Santa Cruz Community Health Centers and Dientes hosted two well-attended community meetings to share their proposal for 60 units of affordable housing, moving and expanding the existing East Cliff Family Health Center, and a new space for Dientes. Participants were asked to weigh in on what the public plaza should look like, whether to trade parking spaces for smaller buildings or larger amounts of green space, and to provide information on all three entities. The County and MidPen Housing are actively working with the adjacent property developer where a new grocery store and other amenities are expected. Developing both properties at the same time would allow a better overall design. MidPen Housing will now take all the feedback they received and develop final drawings in order to seek design approval. Before officially submitting their plans, MidPen will hold another community meeting to go over the plans. I will share this information once we have a date scheduled. To find out about the materials presented, please click
here.
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| Innovators in Transportation Speakers Series |
The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission is pleased to announce the Innovators in Transportation Speaker Series. Through this series of educational and informative talks and presentations, members of the community will have the opportunity to hear transportation experts from around the country discuss the innovations and trends that are shaping the future of transportation in Santa Cruz County and beyond.
Join us for the first talk in the series:
Planning Transit for a Prosperous Santa Cruz County: Jarrett Walker, international consultant in public transportation planning and policy, and author of
Human Transit Wednesday, May 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Simpkins Family Swim Center, Community Room, 979 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information on the
Innovators in Transportation Speaker Series and dates for upcoming talks, visit
www.sccrtc.org.
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Our Congressional Representatives Panetta, Eshoo and Speier released last Friday a
Further Update on Phase Two
of the FAA's Initiative to Address Noise Concerns of Santa Cruz/Santa Clara/San Mateo/San Francisco Counties. Regarding the return of the SFO Southern Arrivals flight path to a BSR Overlay, the report states that the FAA is currently engaged in the design stage work of this Optimized Profile Descent (OPD) overlay and anticipates the Full Work Group will meet on May 8, 2018. The FAA anticipates a more detailed timeline to accompany the next quarterly Update, no later than 90 business days after the publication of this April 2018 update. Previously, the FAA said they would implement the BSR Overlay at the same time as the redesign of Class B airspace, which is scheduled for August 2018. This new update is so vague that I have to assume they are no longer holding to an August date for switching to the BSR Overlay. This is a disappointing development, and I will continue to work with our Representatives to move the process along as best we can. . Reporting excessive jet noise is still important! This website here
provides a simple way to report noise to the FAA from a smart phone or other device.
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| Primary Day is Around the Corner |
Although it seems like we have been tracking politics closely since the last election in November 2016, the California Primary is June 5th. There are several statewide initiatives and statewide races including Governor, U.S .Senate, and a handful of local measures. It can be hard to keep track of all the items on the ballot. To help you out, I have prepared a short write up about all the measures on the ballot and some of my endorsements. You can see them by clicking
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