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Please download the form, sign & date, then return via email:

Santa Clara / Sunnyvale:
Form: https://tinyurl.com/524t5mhf Return email: nohomekeysantaclarasunnyvale@gmail.com

Mountain View:
Form: https://tinyurl.com/592vk4tz Return email: VoteNoToHomekey@gmail.com

For those of you who prefer to sign in-person, please visit us this Sat/Sun (Oct-30/31), 12pm - 6pm at WeBoba Milk Tea:

3030 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA

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Physical signature is the MOST effective way to show your opposition. If you are willing to sign the petition with a wet signature, please email nohomekeysantaclarasunnyvale@gmail.com or votenotohomekey@gmail.com and our volunteers will reach out to you to discuss next steps and answer any questions.

Discord: https://discord.gg/Hm9mAfjvMx

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Santa Clara County and LifeMoves are planning to build 75  interim housing units at 2035 White Oak Lane, Santa Clara and 120 supportive housing units at 3550 El Camino Real, Santa Clara as part of the Project Homekey.

• 64 units of transitional housing at  Bella Vista Inn, Santa Clara. (11/2/2021 is THE DEADLINE)
• 75 Interim housing site at 2035 White Oak Lane, Santa Clara.
• 67 units at Crestview Hotel, Mountain View (11/2/2021 is THE DEADLINE)

While it is important to find ways to help homeless people, it is also important to ensure safety for everyone. The above sites are dangerous for the homeless. The White Oak Lane is right at an intersection that lacks a stop sign at a blind corner and people regularly make illegal fast turns to avoid Lawrence traffic and the signal light there. As a result, this corner often has car accidents. The Bella Vista Inn and Crestview Hotel site are also right on a major road/intersection. This is not a safe area to be located and especially for people who are disabled by serious mental illness, chronic alcohol and drug problems. 

For children's safety advocates, the proposed site is problematic because it is within 600 feet of a planned new children's playground (in 2015, California struck down the law that prevented sex offenders from living within 2000 ft of a park or school). It is also located right in the middle of a residential neighborhood of small children in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale (it's right on the border of the two cities). Near those sites, there are more than 13 schools. A Project HomeKey location was built in Milpitas and despite officials' claims that it would not increase crime, within a few months of its opening, a murder occurred of someone living there that wasn't even supposed to be living there and no one noticed. At another project, a mother said that her children were forced to live next to a man that was last arrested for raping his own toddler. There are other reports of daily crime, mental instability issues, active shootings, drugs, etc. Sacramento's increase in homeless population also led to an increase in crime, rape, and needles and trash on the sidewalk.

Project HomeKey was designed to convert existing hotels in commercial areas and commercial buildings into transitional housing, which keeps some safe distance between vulnerable children and people who have mental, addiction, and other issues. However, all of those sites are right in the middle of a dense residential neighborhood of small children. This petition is NOT intended to stop building housing for those need them, but we should reconsider the location and engage the local community during the process and keep the decision transparent.