The WGNA is a grassroots community organization dedicated to improving life in the
Willow Glen neighborhood of San Jose, CA. If you are a resident of Willow Glen, please get involved and join the WGNA.
Monthly
WGNA Board Meeting:
3rd Wed of
the Month, 7 PM
except in July and December.
The WGNA no longer sponsors, supports or maintains an elist.
WGNA does sponsor and support
WillowGlenNow a Yahoo based group for comment, posting and chat
http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/WillowGlenNow/?v=1&t=directory&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=dir&slk=25
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Changes on the Avenue
Wednesday evening, Feb 15, 2012, 7-9pm
Doors open at 6:30
Willow Glen Middle/High School Library 2001
Cottle Ave. San Jose, CA 95125
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Willow Glen's 2nd Annual
Safe Routes to School Program
2011
Click on. . . Safe Routes
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Jan 25, 2012 Sacramento Business Journal
High Speed Rail may become the Train to Somewhere
HSR Done Right
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Reporting Graffiti in San José
is Just a Call or Click Away!
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Straight from the shoulder
San Jose's Assistant Chief of Police Rikki Goede
speaks to Willow Glen about mischief in the hood,
car break-in's, home burglaries, gangs, graffiti and more.
Great presentation! Click here for more
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Why a Walk, Bike Friendly Village
Why Willow Glen
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Student's Guide to Police Practices
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Summary Notes & Slides from the September 21, 2011 meeting
Guest Speaker
Hans Larsen
Director of Transportation for the City of San Jose
To view the full 36 slide presentation, click here
It's a 5.8Mb pdf file may be slow to upload
Roads, Transportation and the Changing Landscape
San Jose is a city of 1,000,000 people and covers nearly 180 sq miles with 2,400 miles of paved streets and roads.
To view the full 36 slide presentation, click here
It's a 5.8Mb pdf file may be slow to upload
Letter to the City of San Jose regarding a safer, calmer Lincoln Avenue -
Public Comment regarding the Project level EIR for the City's 2040 General Land Plan
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San Jose requests underground option in bullet train EIR
Discussed and debated in a Town Hall Meeting
December 8, 2011 at San Jose City Hall
In support of the The Downtown and Neighborhoods Coalition's request for an underground option in the EIR, an adhoc committee of Coalition members worked with City staff to develop the Modified Tunnel Option (MTO), an underground HSR alignment.
December 8th the MTO concept was presented head-to-head with the CA HSR Authority's "Aerial Only Option". Advocates for underground in the EIR gave an 18 slide presentation.
The gloves came off, but the affair was civil and informative.
The HSR Authority had the room packed with consultants, contractors and Authority staff. You have to hand it to them; they came well prepared to deny the underground request; ready to "Put a fork in it" once and for all. Authority staff and their consultants held their ground telling San Jose again... No Tunnel. No How. No Way.
Few in the packed room believed what they were hearing from the Authority. The more the community heard and the more they learned, the more they questioned the Authority's hard-line stance. When asked how many believe an aerial is best for San Jose, only two people raised their hand.
Six informational posters were created to explain the MTO concept and feasility. They represent a fraction of the work that has gone into developing a viable underground option for inclusion in the HSR EIR.
1) An example of a high capacity 2-track/2-platform urban station is being mined today in wet clay soils.
2) Connection and ticketing design for an underground station is shown here.
3) CA 2008 Prop.1A HSR requires the system be able to handle 12 trains per hour each way. A properly sized twin single-track tunnel design supporting speeds up to 140mph will do that. The Federal Railroad Authority (FRA) speed limit for trains in urban areas is 125mph. The Authority has no provision in their design guidelines for standard urban sized bored tunnels.
4) This poster shows actual soils conditions under the planned Diridon BART station box. It's not a "river", a "lake" or "soup". These soils are primarily firm-to-dense clay less prone to liquefaction in a large earthquake.
5) An underground station will not and can not impact San Jose drinking water .This panel explains why.
6) And last, a poster debunking the claim that MTO would require costly property takes and easements payouts.
Shown here are a few questions some were hoping to have answered; a few of which were.
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The WGNA “Touring Historic Willow Glen” book,
on sale at Hicklebees
(on Lincoln, near Minnesota)
and at History San Jose
(in Kelley Park).
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Want
to organize for Christmas Trees along one's block?
Click here for details
To contact the Police:
Emergency: 911 (or 408/277-8911 from a cell-phone);
Non-emergency (open 24/7): 311 (or 408/277-8900).
To email officers serving the Willow Glen area, email to Police@wgna.net.
Want
information about Police activities in your neighborhood? check out their website at www.sjpd.org.
To set up a Neighborhood Watch, call Crime Prevention at 277-4133, http://www.sjpd.org/crimeprev/neighborhoodwatch.cfm
(click here
to contact WGNA about setting up a BlockMail, for
anything from neighborhood watches to organizing block parties.)
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Questions about your membership? email treasurer@wgna.net
or president@wgna.net
Board Meetings
The WGNA board
generally meets on the third Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM at the
Willow Glen Baptist
Church; 1292 Minnesota Ave, San Jose, Ca 95125 (corner of Hicks &
Minnesota).
(Please enter on the Minnesota side, up
the front steps of the church.).
The public is invited to attend. Agendas
are posted roughly a week in advance. Please contact us to put an item on the agenda. Read the agenda of the most recent board meeting.
summary of Roberts Rules of Order: p.1, p.2, p.3, p.4
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