[Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: Fairgrounds Meeting Oct 22 with Co Supervisors: Developer or Community Driven?

[Andrea Dorey]

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>
> Subject: Fairgrounds Meeting Oct 22 with Co Supervisors: Developer  
> or Community Driven?
>
> Santa Clara County Friends:
> We need hundreds of people at this Oct. 22 special Fairgrounds  
> meeting with the County Board of Supervisors to stop the developer  
> driven county agenda for our Fairgrounds!  This meeting will  
> determine the process and if we will be able to keep our Fairgrounds.
>
> The land on which the Fairgrounds sits represents a nonrenewable  
> public land resource.  The 150 acre Fairgrounds site is the most  
> utilized of Santa Clara County's public lands with 750,000 visiting  
> the Fairgrounds in 2007.  It also has the County’s most diverse  
> cultural, expos, fairs, and trade shows in a part of the valley  
> that has no large open space.  Because of its large size and  
> central location, the Fairgrounds could become the gem of the  
> County's network of public lands.
>
> Please tell as many people who live in Santa Clara County as  
> possible about this meeting.  We will have "Talking Points" at the  
> door and on our website which you can use to either speak at the  
> meeting or write the Supervisors.
>
> Friends of Fairgrounds (FOF), a coalition of Santa Clara County  
> residents and businesses, believes that transforming the  
> Fairgrounds into a source of even greater benefits for the County  
> will require creative community based planning, adequate financing,  
> and effective management.  FOF will make the following  
> recommendations at the special Fairgrounds October 22nd Board of  
> Supervisor meeting:
>
> Appoint a Citizens Advisory Taskforce to gather public input and  
> assist the Board in determining possible uses for the Fairgrounds.
> Suspend all negotiations with the developer, Catellus, until the  
> CAC completes the process of public input and research and makes a  
> formal recommendation to the BOS.
> Please tell as many Santa Clara County residents as possible about  
> this meeting and ask them to support FOF's recommendations.  There  
> will be "Talking Points" at the door and on the website,  
> www.friendsofsccfairgrounds.org.  They can be used to either speak  
> at the meeting or write the Supervisors.  Thank you.
>
> WHEN:                        Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008, 6:30 pm
>
> WHERE:                     Santa Clara County Building, Board  
> Chambers (1st floor)
>                                       70 West Hedding St., San  
> Jose, CA 95110
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