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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

Ahhhh yes. This would help explain that.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

Isn’t it weird that they only have HCD comment letters from 2022 on their website.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

I’m going to read/skim these city’s housing elements. I’m so morbidly curious.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

Shout out to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin for their excellent, fact based reporting of the last decade or so of their rapid descent into madness, religious control and fanaticism. Here is a piece on the last election. This is when the current school board president was elected.

dailybulletin.com

What voters need to know about the Chino Valley Unified election

The school district is at a “crossroads,” the four candidates agree.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

Shout out to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin for doing some really great reporting on the last school board election, the one where their school board president raised 74k, 50k of which came from a school district vendor.

dailybulletin.com

What voters need to know about the Chino Valley Unified election

The school district is at a “crossroads,” the four candidates agree.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

I just fell down a 90 minute local government rabbit hole learning about the cities of chino and chino hills (guess what makes them different!), their councils, and especially this school board. Their school board politics over the last decade is some of the worst I’ve ever seen, ever.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

Bizarre that they can’t just give it to you now but if this fixes the tedious problem then it sounds like youd have one less tedious problem than you do now. Hell yeah.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

This sounds like one of like, the most stressful situations. How are you doing?

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

I’d need actual legal advice from my city attorney but my general attitude is that you’re going to need to make me.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

Our council is far from unhinged. It was just a wild and crazy meeting confusing to many. But! Unlike many cities, we arrived at a consensus to say yes to housing on a massive scale.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

Also, god bless you for remembering crow twitter! What a time to be alive.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

I will be nearing retirement age

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

Lmaoooo And yes. Yes the end result was based actually. I still have some legitimate concerns but what we accomplished was really great.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

What we ended up voting to approve was very hinged. The proceedings were less so.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

When holocaust denial comes up we turn off the mic. You’re done. Bye. I mean, we argue, engage in occasional pettiness and carry on like any deliberative body. But this meeting was an outlier.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Like, I really don’t think that’s too much to ask.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

I’ve been getting calls all day calling it “unhinged”

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

No actually! My council is known regionally as being maybe the most measured and sane around. We were really on one last night.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

But more specifically, the Sunnyvale city council votes twitter account has this:

A screen grab of the Sunnyvale city council votes tweet detailing the moffett park specific plan motion and the plethora of amendments

Sunnyvale city council votes account tweet: “main motion, as amended, and with an additional friendly amendment to set the minimum density for any residential development in MP-MU to 36 du/acre, carries 7-0”

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Thanks for asking. I’m fine, nothing that rises above what you simply come to expect on twitter.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

It almost defies the English language so here:

A business meeting were people appear to be either confused, distracted, focused, or skeptical.

A business meeting that has gone off the rails, people are throwing papers everywhere and gesticulating wildly.

People in a meeting sitting around a table and doing a group high five over the center of the table. Their business endeavor has been successful.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

I barely post on threads. I know that app has been breaking records so why shouldn’t this be one too.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Days on threads before getting sexually harassed: 4 Days on Bluesky before getting sexually harassed: still counting!

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Plant some trees problem solved! Im sure that’s all it was about. /s Dealing with the housing piece of all of this is a necessary part of making meaningful steps to reduce or end homelessness, but not the only one. The state has funded other good programs and should keep doing that too.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Building permanent supportive and permanent extremely low income housing is a very hard for cities to do (or want to do) even if the state were to throw money at them. The housed residents organize and fight tooth and nail to prevent it from happening. A state mandate + money might happen.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Some of that money has gone to fund transitional housing initiatives. But having a temporary place to stay isn’t a great long term solution if there are no permanent housing available to transition into. Im not aware of state funding for that. The state does not itself build housing. Cities do.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Hard to get a handle on it when we refuse to build enough homes, making it so that scarcity continues to drive up rents. People get boxed out of the rental market entirely, putting more people on the street faster than we can hope to rehouse them. It’s really fucked.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

You resign yourself to receiving them every birthday and holiday from here on out, from more and more people as they see you getting them from others.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Yes like the peanut butter you are correct. Conversation over no one is allowed to reply to this.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

I hope bluesky never allows GIFs. I don’t want to discuss how to pronounce GIF ever again. I DO want to see everyone continue to post from their deep meme stash.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Ahhhh! Where did you all go to high school?? (Got to ask the townie queation)

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Zoom link and agenda packet here. If you tune in via zoom you can even raise your digital hand to provide public comment (highly encouraged!!!)

sunnyvaleca.legistar.com

City of Sunnyvale - Meeting of City Council on 7/11/2023 at 7:00 PM

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

If anyone is interested in learning how to do this, or if you need some interesting background noise tonight, tune in starting 7pm PST. Zoom link on the page linked below or you can stream it live on the @sunnyvalemeetings youtube acct.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

You can turn your beige suburbs into vibrant neighborhoods and communities. It feels REALLY good. Run for city council. I’ll help you.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

It’s right on the bay. It will be a gorgeous place to live, work, and visit. Taking these sprawling beige office monstrosities built in the 80s and 90s and turning them into communities full of beauty and life is an honor to be part of. I grew up here, this is my home.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

There are a lot of different land owners and developers for all different land use types who all need to work together with the city, environmental orgs and transit agencies to make this happen. We need to work with the army corp of engineers and valley water to stop sea level rise.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

It’s enormous in scale, and will likely take 20 years to build. We need to get it right tonight. If we don’t, the feasibility of actually building this incredible project is in jeopardy. And let’s be real, demand for housing in the Silicon Valley is not going to cease in our lifetimes.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Tonight, after FOUR years of planning, pre-meetings and study sessions, my city council will hear and approve (or not) the Moffett Park Specific Plan. The plan seeks to turn a big, ancient office park into 20k units of housing (15-20% below market) in a vibrant mixed use, walkable district.

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Angry about land use. AGAIN

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Reskeet a picture of yourself and your age. I’m 35.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

I received the email written about in this article today directly from Mr. Rapport, with, inexplicably, @richardm.bsky.social cc’ed. what isn’t mentioned in this little write up is his references to the “Colorado and Arizona Cannibal Wars”, something I’d like to learn more about actually.

gladstonedispatch.com

Don't get conned by ridiculous claims

Working at a newspaper, we in the newsroom get a lot of junk emails. Some of them are spam, suggesting we expand our reach by referencing websites we don't have

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

The old Twitter is dying. The New Twitter struggles to be born. This is the time of Skeets.

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Alysa Cisneros @alysa.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

“The hammerhead just lost his entire life savings”

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