Join us in urging Sunnyvale City Council to make nature a priority in the Moffett Park Specific Plan.
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The City of Sunnyvale is making plans to redevelop the 1,156-acre Moffett Park area at the northwest corner of Sunnyvale into a new mixed-use district that could bring as many as 67,000 new jobs and 20,000 new housing units to the bayshore area.
Envisioned as an Ecological Innovation District, the Moffett Park Specific Plan (MPSP) presents an opportunity for transformative planning to create a future mixed-use district that is climate resilient, biodiverse, sustainable, and livable.
Moffett Park is home to 87+ acres of healthy brackish wetlands that provide critical habitat and biodiversity as well as natural climate services such as flood resilience, carbon sequestration, and pollution filtration. This vital ecology needs to be preserved and given room to migrate upland over time as sea level rises.
The proposed land use map lays out office, housing, industrial and mixed-use activity zones, but so far, that’s as far as it goes. The resulting influx of commuters, residents, and visitors to the Moffett Park area will substantially intensify human impacts on wildlife, the Bay Trail, the wetlands, and the open space in and near the Plan area.
Parks and open space are needed to support the recreational needs of a huge new influx of people. Wetlands, riparian corridors, tree canopy are needed to support biodiversity and climate resilience. High habitat-value open space, without high impact human incursion, is needed to preserve and enhance biodiversity.
Tell City Council: A true Ecological Innovation District will require a dedicated network of open space for both habitat and recreation as well as specific, dependable policies and programs to ensure climate resilience, biodiversity, sustainability and livability.
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