Petition to the OGSD Board of Trustees to REJECT Offers for Development/Rezoning of Glider School Property

Closing Glider was a bad mistake. Selling for high density development will be a huge mistake.

I attended Glider when it first opened. The neighborhood will transition back to families with kids. Don't close the school for more housing.

Please do not sell this for more homes. There will be no schools to put the children moving in to these homes. Our schools are already over crowded.

Ruin a neighborhood for the relatively (to the City of San Jose) low amount of money. We have been here for almost a quarter of a century. And this idea makes little sense for anyone other than people not living here and only interested in the money. If sold for High-Density Housing, it will be a disaster from day one until the end of days. Truck after truck for a long time. Where would all these children from these developing housing attend school? What about the cars? Most families have more than 1.

Please reject. This will destroy the area. Will cause a mess for years to come, decrease property values. We agree that the area is not set up to handle high traffic. etc. etc. etc.

please don’t make it into houses istg I would be so pissed

The district says that developer is proposing detached single family house. However, those single family house are usually at least three stories and with less than 2500 sqft lot size. Developers only cares about returns. They want to make house dense enough to have more house buyers. Those so called "single family" houses are not real single family house. They don't fit in our neighborhood!

We do not have water for more high density housing among many other reasons! Stop this lunacy!

I strongly oppose to the sale to developers. Where would all these children from these developing housing attend school at. This mean that not only will our community be impacted by large amount new residence but our district schools will too. Sakamoto and Taylor are the only two schools near by and they are already at capacity. Think about the schools that will not be able to hold more children where would all the new families children be sent to?

Please stop sale of property for high density housing

“There goes the neighborhood!”

Save Glider school

This is so very sad. My daughter attended Glider in the 90's and it was a great school. I see many new families with young children moving into the area. We have a need for quality schools. I absolutely oppose the school being razed and turned into high density housing.

Please, we do not need low income housing in our residential neighborhood. We have been here 43 years and with this plan our property value would drop like a rock..

Not sure what the issue is with all of you. None of you have provided any evidence that opportunity housing decreases property value, raises crime rates, or even leads to increased traffic congestion. But for the sake of argument, let's say that this form of denser residential housing- which will provide many, many more families with an opportunity for housing on the same land versus a single home - really did cause these things. Are you seriously willing to deprive a family of an opportunity to live in San Jose simply because it might add a couple of minutes to your commute? Or because you might not sell your home for quite as much in a few years (and let's be honest, property value here will still continue to climb)? Crime rates, furthermore, are always rising and falling for a multitude of reasons that have nothing to do with the type of housing in a neighborhood. If crime rates are your real concern, take that up with SJPD and their refusal to investigate anything less than a serious felony. It's so easy to look at this from the perspective of someone who already owns a home here, and doesn't have to worry about where they're going to live, or whether they can afford to take a job in our city when they are completely priced out of the area. Please keep the scope of your complaints in perspective with those who actually need help. Not everyone can purchase a home here, even when working several jobs and doing their absolute best. Apartments, town homes, duplexes...this kind of affordable housing is literally the only housing many families can, well, afford. Also, if the school had such low attendance that the city thought it should close...then why shouldn't we be able to repurpose the land for something that could benefit the large community of families that need safe housing in the Bay Area. Are all of you really saying you care more about the fleeting value of your homes over the safety and well-being of others? What a whiny bunch you are. Shouldn’t we

Please listen to the people. Don't sell this place for a large development. I liked the idea to use it for administration and sell the property on Santa Teresa. Seems more logical.

How can this even be a consideration when we have so many children that benefit from such a nice school in a safe area?!? Developers want to make $$$, they don't care about children's education or the families who have to send their kids further away because the school that so many parents specifically moved closer to just so their kids could go there is now gone. REJECT this offer! The only reason you would take it is because of $$$...don't be greedy like the developers, protect your community as you are expected to.

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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 live on Glider Dr and it is about 1/4 mile from the very dry hills. If I need to evacuate, I will have to drive on Glider or Cozy, neither of which feeds into a large street. To build more houses on the Glider property, meaning more people trying to evacuate on narrow streets, will be disastrous. Just this week, the San Jose Mercury News had these articles: Wildfire Risks grow and so does push for housing reform, Drought forces water limits to be mandated, Water restrictions OK'd for Santa Clara County. Another article-Bilingual education programs ready to grow after slowing during pandemic, indicates that there is a need for more, not fewer school resources. So many families have indicated that there is a need for schools with before and after school care. Being unable to find that here, where we pay our taxes for schools, is forcing families to go to private schools. OGSD needs to consider how to make our schools better not how to make a few dollars for a one time gain.

Considering the current (for the past 35 years I've lived in S. San Jose) "housing demand" I suggest developers can EASILY be found who will build tract homes on the Glider property that match the surrounding neighborhood. That should give the City Reps and Staff what they most want - MONEY & INCREASED TAX BASE - and the neighbors what they most want - NO CHANGE IN MY BACK YARD. Duhhh - win - win. At least that's how it appears to me. Why create unnecessary frictions building more BEEHIVE HOUSING where it's not appropriate. Thanks!