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<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><br></div></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><div style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); font-size: 11px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><b>Subject:</b> Fairgrounds Meeting Oct 22 with Co Supervisors: Developer or Community Driven?</span></div></div><div><br></div><div><font size="2"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; "><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><span class="666420504-21102008">Santa Clara County Friends:</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; "><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><span class="666420504-21102008">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. </span></font></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; "><font size="+0"><span class="666420504-21102008"></span><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><span class="666420504-21102008"></span></font></font></font> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; "><font size="+0"><font size="+0"><font size="+0"><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><b>The land on which the Fairgrounds sits represents a nonrenewable </b><span class="666420504-21102008"><b>public land</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span></span><b>resource.</b><span><b> </b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span></span><b>The 150 acre Fairgrounds site is the most utilized of</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><b>Santa Clara</b></st1:placename><span class="Apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><st1:placetype w:st="on"><b>County</b></st1:placetype></st1:place><b>'s public lands with 750,000 visiting the Fairgrounds in 2007.</b><span><b> </b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span></span><b>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.</b><span><b> </b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span></span><b>Because of its large size and central location, the Fairgrounds could become the gem of the County's network of public lands. </b></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; "><font size="+0"><font size="+0"><font size="+0"><font face="Arial"><b><font size="3"></font></b></font></font></font></font><b> </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; "><span class="666420504-21102008"><font face="Arial" size="3">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. </font></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; "><o:p><font face="Arial" size="3"> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; "><font face="Arial"><font size="3">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.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>FOF will make the following recommendations at the special <span class="666420504-21102008">Fairgrounds<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>October 22<sup>nd</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>B<span class="666420504-21102008">oard of Supervisor</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>meeting:<b><span style="color: red; "><o:p></o:p></span></b></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; "><o:p><font face="Arial" size="3"> </font></o:p></div><ol type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; "><font size="3"><font face="Arial"><b>Appoint a Citizens Advisory Taskforce to gather public input and assist the Board in determining possible uses for the Fairgrounds</b><span style="color: red; ">.</span><span> </span></font></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; "><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><b>Suspend all negotiations with <span class="666420504-21102008">the developer,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Catellus<span class="666420504-21102008">,</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>until the CAC completes the process of public input and research and makes a formal recommendation to the BOS.<span> </span></font></font></li></ol><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><o:p><font size="3"><font face="Arial"><span class="666420504-21102008"><font size="2"><span class="666420504-21102008"><font face="Arial" size="3">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,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.friendsofsccfairgrounds.org">www.friendsofsccfairgrounds.org</a>. They can be used to either speak at the meeting or write the Supervisors. Thank you. </font></span></font></span></font></font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><o:p><font size="3"><font face="Arial"><span class="666420504-21102008"><font size="2"></font></span></font></font></o:p></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Arial"><b><span><font size="3">WHEN:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Wednesday, October 22<sup>nd</sup>, 2008, 6:30 pm<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span><o:p><font face="Arial" size="3"> </font></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span><font size="3"><font face="Arial">WHERE:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Santa Clara</st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>County Building, Board Chambers (1<sup>st</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>floor)<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><span> <span class="666420504-21102008"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">70 West Hedding St.</st1:street>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on">San Jose</st1:city>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:state w:st="on">CA</st1:state><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:postalcode w:st="on">95110</st1:postalcode></st1:address></font></font></span></b></div></font></div></span></blockquote></div></body></html>