The City of Santa Clara has embarked on a Community Engagement Initiative to find ways to better vision the future of the city with the community. The even created a "placemaking" location on their website.

Project for Public Spaces has been engaged to look holistically at the City of Santa Clara on how to create great places. And there is a specific focus on looking at the 6-acre BAREC/Win6 site.

This is a very exciting time, where the City of Santa Clara has decided to deliberately invest in proactively looking at how to make their city greater than it is today. They are looking at how to change the conversation with community so that the discussions are on solutions, not simply resisting and denying change.

There are a few upcoming meetings to attend:

Tues, March 14 - 5-7pm (8pm if there is a lot of Q&A)

Change, Growth & Planning: Envisioning Santa Clara County 3.0 Land Use Workshop - with Don Weden

Location: Santa Clara City Council chambers, 1500 Warburton Ave, Santa Clara, CA

If you have not seen Don in action, you should try very hard to make it to this event; it may be the best 90+ minutes you will spend on anything related to land use and planning. Don Weden is that good. His perspective is objective and fact based. He will not speak to any one specific project, but will help set the stage for thoughtful future discussions on the many projects that face our region.

Fri, March 24 - 6-8pm

Placemaking - Creating the City of the Future

Location: Santa Clara University, Locatelli Center, 500 El Camino Real, Bldg 710, Santa Clara, CA

Project for Public Spaces (PPS) will present their organization and introduce themselves to the local community. Santa Clara has never engaged a placemaking team with a focus on people and creating great places across the City. It should prove to be special, exciting and inspiring. This is the City's kick-off event of their process.

Sat, March 25 - 9-11am

Visioning the BAREC/Win6 site

Location: Santa Clara Senior Center, 1303 Fremont St, Santa Clara, CA

PPS will lead and facilitate a hands-on visioning discussion on the BAREC/Win6 site that The Core Companies will be developing (90 N Winchester Blvd). Come help shape the future and dream/discuss what is possible.