The board actually listened and voted to kill the development project entirely so our neighborhood property is safe for now. I am honestly still in shock that we managed to pull this off after all the stress of the last few months but I will keep watching the board meeting …
July 20, 2021
Petition to the OGSD Board of Trustees to REJECT Offers for Development/Rezoning of Glider School Property
Final supporters
We, the undersigned community members and neighbors of the Glider school campus, respectfully request that the Board of Trustees of the Oak Grove School District REJECT OFFERS from developers to buy the Glider school property for the purpose of building dense and/or multi-family housing. We urge the Board to REJECT the current offers as being not compatible with neighborhood use, and due to lack of public disclosure, awareness, and input.
Glider is not a good site for a dense housing development because:
- The property is set deep into the neighborhood with no thoroughfare built to handle high traffic. Increased traffic will burden previously quiet streets.
- Lot lines connecting with existing homes will infringe on privacy and increase noise for residents, especially if new development is higher than two stories.
- The neighborhood uses the school yard for public park space.
- The proposed development style will not match the look and feel of this established neighborhood.
- Our neighborhood has recently experienced district-induced trauma related to the closure of the elementary school.
Further, we ask the board to
- Fully explore selling the district office property before selling any fill-in neighborhood school, and move the district office to a school property. The district office site is better suited for “opportunity housing” due to its location directly on Santa Teresa Blvd., proximity to the VTA light rail & bus station, and no shared fences with existing homes.
- Create a committee including community members to explore other income producing activities beyond a lease of the property.
- Notify the neighborhood by mail, and host a community information meeting including the presentation of the environmental impact, and a public input meeting before considering a sale of the property.
- Present a clear plan for community approval on how proceeds from the sale of any capital asset will be used before a sale agreement is entered. Proceeds from sale of a school property should not be used to fund perpetual budget deficits. Significant cuts and changes need to be made at the district level before asking for such a significant and permanent sacrifice from the community.
- In the event of a sale, divide the Glider property to preserve 50% as green park space for the community, or as agreed to after a detailed and specific community benefit agreement.
- Based on the lack of transparency and community input that we have experienced with the Glider property, our community will start the process to recall all current members of the OGSD Board of Trustees who do not oppose the sale.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
June 9, 2021
June 3, 2021
One hundred signatures reached and honestly I am just blown away by how many neighbors care about the Glider property because it really goes to show we aren't just invisible people shouting into the void about traffic and privacy. I was sitting here staring at the screen and refresh button wondering if anyone else felt the same way about the rezoning plan so seeing this many names pop up is actually pretty wild.
Reached 100 supporters
June 2, 2021
224 Comments
The site is better used as a community public park & space and/or leased for educational purposes. Building high density housing without planning for traffic on Snell in close proximity to Santa Teresa High School seems like a bad idea.
We have lived in this neighborhood for 36 years. Our son and our granddaughter attended Glider School. We had hoped to see it reopen as there are now many young children in this neighborhood. We strongly oppose the sale of this great school and the building of housing on the site.
I am strongly against building high-density housing in a single family residence neighborhood. Please respect families, the community, and neighborhoods. Be transparent: involve and inform residents of plans to sell closed school properties.
Our district has already been inundated with thousands of new homes at the old IBM site. Putting multi family housing next to an existing neighborhood of single homes is wrong for tax paying citizens who bought these properties in a quiet area to raise their families.
I live in the neighborhood and I believe that high density housing in the center of a quiet, single family home neighborhood would be extremely detrimental. It would bring much more traffic and be huge drain on our already limited water resource. I am definitely opposed.
Keep the neighborhood density the same.
We were in Lahaina, Maui during the fires in August. When I came home, I was unable to relax knowing what had occurred in Maui and realizing that when there is a fire on the hills here, which are about 1/4 mile from the Glider property and my home, being able to evacuate will be difficult. If 80 additional homes are built between my house and the nearest large street, we will be trapped. It is irresponsible to consider adding more homes to an area with no access to a major street. Many of the streets in Lahaina were similar to, or even wider than the streets in this neighborhood and the destruction there is overwhelming. Don't set this area up for a similar fate.
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The board actually listened and voted to kill the development project entirely so our neighborhood property is safe for now. I am honestly still in shock that we managed to pull this off after all the stress of the last few months but I will keep watching the board meeting …
July 20, 2021
Petition to the OGSD Board of Trustees to REJECT Offers for Development/Rezoning of Glider School Property
Final supporters
We, the undersigned community members and neighbors of the Glider school campus, respectfully request that the Board of Trustees of the Oak Grove School District REJECT OFFERS from developers to buy the Glider school property for the purpose of building dense and/or multi-family housing. We urge the Board to REJECT the current offers as being not compatible with neighborhood use, and due to lack of public disclosure, awareness, and input.
Glider is not a good site for a dense housing development because:
- The property is set deep into the neighborhood with no thoroughfare built to handle high traffic. Increased traffic will burden previously quiet streets.
- Lot lines connecting with existing homes will infringe on privacy and increase noise for residents, especially if new development is higher than two stories.
- The neighborhood uses the school yard for public park space.
- The proposed development style will not match the look and feel of this established neighborhood.
- Our neighborhood has recently experienced district-induced trauma related to the closure of the elementary school.
Further, we ask the board to
- Fully explore selling the district office property before selling any fill-in neighborhood school, and move the district office to a school property. The district office site is better suited for “opportunity housing” due to its location directly on Santa Teresa Blvd., proximity to the VTA light rail & bus station, and no shared fences with existing homes.
- Create a committee including community members to explore other income producing activities beyond a lease of the property.
- Notify the neighborhood by mail, and host a community information meeting including the presentation of the environmental impact, and a public input meeting before considering a sale of the property.
- Present a clear plan for community approval on how proceeds from the sale of any capital asset will be used before a sale agreement is entered. Proceeds from sale of a school property should not be used to fund perpetual budget deficits. Significant cuts and changes need to be made at the district level before asking for such a significant and permanent sacrifice from the community.
- In the event of a sale, divide the Glider property to preserve 50% as green park space for the community, or as agreed to after a detailed and specific community benefit agreement.
- Based on the lack of transparency and community input that we have experienced with the Glider property, our community will start the process to recall all current members of the OGSD Board of Trustees who do not oppose the sale.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
June 9, 2021
June 3, 2021
One hundred signatures reached and honestly I am just blown away by how many neighbors care about the Glider property because it really goes to show we aren't just invisible people shouting into the void about traffic and privacy. I was sitting here staring at the screen and refresh button wondering if anyone else felt the same way about the rezoning plan so seeing this many names pop up is actually pretty wild.
Reached 100 supporters
June 2, 2021
224 Comments
Dense housing will put further strain on the elementary schools that absorbed Glider students upon its closure. Increasing the student population with dense housing defeats the purpose of closing the school in the first place.
The site is better used as a community public park & space and/or leased for educational purposes. Building high density housing without planning for traffic on Snell in close proximity to Santa Teresa High School seems like a bad idea.
We have lived in this neighborhood for 36 years. Our son and our granddaughter attended Glider School. We had hoped to see it reopen as there are now many young children in this neighborhood. We strongly oppose the sale of this great school and the building of housing on the site.
I am strongly against building high-density housing in a single family residence neighborhood. Please respect families, the community, and neighborhoods. Be transparent: involve and inform residents of plans to sell closed school properties.
Our district has already been inundated with thousands of new homes at the old IBM site. Putting multi family housing next to an existing neighborhood of single homes is wrong for tax paying citizens who bought these properties in a quiet area to raise their families.
I live in the neighborhood and I believe that high density housing in the center of a quiet, single family home neighborhood would be extremely detrimental. It would bring much more traffic and be huge drain on our already limited water resource. I am definitely opposed.
Keep the neighborhood density the same.
We were in Lahaina, Maui during the fires in August. When I came home, I was unable to relax knowing what had occurred in Maui and realizing that when there is a fire on the hills here, which are about 1/4 mile from the Glider property and my home, being able to evacuate will be difficult. If 80 additional homes are built between my house and the nearest large street, we will be trapped. It is irresponsible to consider adding more homes to an area with no access to a major street. Many of the streets in Lahaina were similar to, or even wider than the streets in this neighborhood and the destruction there is overwhelming. Don't set this area up for a similar fate.
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Dense housing will put further strain on the elementary schools that absorbed Glider students upon its closure. Increasing the student population with dense housing defeats the purpose of closing the school in the first place.