REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action to Waive Second Reading and Adopt Ordinance No. 2047 Approving the Westwood Oaks Park Master Plan Update and Preferred Playground Schematic Design, in Accordance with City Charter Section 714.1
Report
BACKGROUND
At the April 19, 2022 Council meeting, proposed Ordinance No. 2047 was passed for the purpose of publication. Pursuant to City Charter Sections 808 and 812, a summary of proposed Ordinance No. 2047 was published to the Santa Clara Weekly on May 18, 2022, and copies were posted in three public places.
Proposed Ordinance No. 2047 would approve the Westwood Oaks Park Master Plan Update and Preferred Playground Schematic Design, in accordance with City Charter Section 714.1.
DISCUSSION
The approval of an update to the Westwood Oaks Site Plan may be subject to Measure R. In November 2016, voters passed Measure R, which added Section 714.1 Protection of Parkland and Public Open Space to the City Charter. Measure R prohibits selling, leasing, or otherwise disposing of parkland for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days or more, and also prohibits its use from changing, being abandoned, or discontinued without such sale, lease, disposal or changed use having first been authorized or ratified by a two-thirds majority vote of the electorate during a general municipal election for that purpose. Measure R also prohibits changes in park use for over 180 days without a majority vote of the electorate and substantial building, construction, reconstruction, or development upon dedicated parkland except pursuant to ordinance subject to referendum. The referendum process is set forth in the Elections Code.
The Westwood Oaks Park Master Plan Update and the proposed Playground Schematic Design, if approved, will include changes to the existing park that may be considered as "substantial building, construction, reconstruction, or development." The approval of the proposed site Master Plan, Playground Schematic Design, and any sub...
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