November 4, 2025 Kirk Vartan - Public Presentation
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Santa Clara Value of Placemaking
Since March 2017
• Envisioning Santa Clara County 3.0 - Don Weden
• Placemaking - Creating the City of the Future Reimagine and Reinvent • 90 N Winchester Blvd Visioning Public Spaces in Santa Clara • General Plan review
• Art and the Art of Placemaking
• Placemaking with Retail
• Placemaking New Neighborhoods
PROJECT FOR
• Placemaking: The Power of 10+ PUBLIC
SPACES
GREAT PLACE?
Varan- Public comments
Agrihood future - Nov 4, 2025
160 apartments
Mixed income affordability
Ground floor activation o ground floor activation
• 7 stories being constructed by Oakridge
• Bascom/Hamilton, two 7-story projects
• 15-17 stories at Winchester & Pruneridge (proposed)
• 700+ apartment building at Winchester and 280 (old Mobile Home park) • New apartment building on Stevens Creek and Saratoga
• New proposal at Moonlight (6-7 stories) on El Camino Developers seems to want to get more housing on • All of Tasman East!!!! the existing land, not less. Literally all state legislation recently passed is to allow for *more*
density, not less. And this was already approved!!!!
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1 • November 4, 2025 Kirk Vartan - Public Presentation
Make it better!!!!
Reconfigure it!!!!
Farners Market
Ideas:
• Larger building,
more open space.
• Wellness services?
• Affordable only?
• Assisted living?
• Placemaking.
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