SUNNYVALE SEEKS COMMUNITY VISION FOR CITY’S FUTURE

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – It’s not often that community members get the opportunity to help set the course of their city’s future. Residents and business in Sunnyvale will have a unique opportunity to do just that at the City’s Community Visioning Festival, Saturday, October 28.

The festival, to be held at the Sunnyvale Community Center, 550 E. Remington Drive, will be the culmination of a month-long process of community comment and dialogue on Sunnyvale’s future. The process will offer community members a chance to let City officials know what values and issues they feel are important as the City grows and moves into the future.

The festival will begin at 9 a.m. Participants will have an opportunity to mingle and visit booths from community organizations and City departments. At 10 a.m., an intensive group visioning session, led by Daniel Iacofano, president of MIG, a Berkeley-based planning and design firm, will begin. Iacofano has developed a national reputation from conducting hundreds of such visioning sessions in communities across the country. Participants will enjoy a barbecue lunch before the event concludes at 2 p.m.

A report, Current Conditions, Future Choices, has been prepared by City staff to guide discussions. The report describes Sunnyvale’s history, its present conditions – including demographics, public services and the economy – and issues and opportunities for the future.

More information, as well as the Current Conditions, Future Choices report is available online at visioning.inSunnyvale.com, or by calling (408) 730-7444, TDD (408) 730-7501.