Kate Perle: The most important thing to know about the neighborhood plan is: That’s just the preplan. The actual plan is us getting up and saying, ‘These are what’s important.’ We need to be the people who make it happen by asking for it to happen.
Presenter: With River Road and Santa Clara, the city took a new approach to neighborhood plans. But budget cuts now threaten the neighborhood program, and the city may need a new new approach. At the River Road Community Organization April 7, Kate Perle:
[00:00:16] Kate Perle (Santa Clara Community Organization): Hi, I’m Kate Perle and I’m the chair of Santa Clara Community Organization and I was a co-chair of the neighborhood planning process. I lived on Oakleigh Lane for eight years before I moved to Santa Clara and I’ve been there for 26 years now.
[00:00:30] I think the most important part I can sort of bring to you is a feeling of frustration about: How do we get from planning to implementation in our neighborhood? How do we get to get the resources to see the changes we’ve spent so much time agonizing wordsmithing?…