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Meeting: City Council and Authorities Concurrent on 2025-12-16 5:30 PM

Meeting Time: December 16, 2025 at 5:30pm PST

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Agenda Item

7. 25-1645 Public Hearing: Action on a General Plan Amendment to the City's Open Space Element to Add Policies to Address Climate Resilience and Other Co-benefits of Open Space; to Help to Increase Access to Open Space for Everyone; and to Preserve, Enhance, and Expand a Network of Open Spaces.

Legislation Text Parks, Recreation and Open Space Diagram General Plan Open Space Element Text Changes City Council Approval Resolution General Plan EIR Addendum PC Staff Report - Nov. 12, 2025
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    Susan Hinton at December 14, 2025 at 3:25pm PST

    Plans include Carbon Farming, a set of ag. methods for storing carbon in the soil and biomass, a.k.a. carbon sequestration. This is laudable. However other city plans for covering land with pour-in-place (PIP) rubber or with plastic grass ("artificial turf") do the opposite. Santa Clara should be aligned in its climate resilience activities across all parks & open space. There is an entire CA Coastal Commission document on plastic: http://tiny.cc/CCC_plastic_pollution. Search "carbon" for more.