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​Welcome to 
​Mountain View Coalition for Sustainable Planning

We are a group of local volunteers dedicated to making Mountain View as beautiful, economically healthy, transit, bicycle, and pedestrian accessible, and affordable as possible. MVCSP member interest and expertise covers areas such as housing, transportation, the environment, the economy, and beyond!

MVCSP generally meets on the second Thursday of every month from 6:30-8:30 PM. The location varies. See "What's Hot" below and the Calendar for upcoming-meeting details.

To receive the latest MVCSP updates in your inbox, click here to subscribe to our announcement-only email list (about one message per week).

To search our site, use the field below. Another option: Google search works well if you include site:mvcsp.org in the search field.​

What's coming up

  • ​Wednesday, September 20th, 2:00 PM: Development Review Committee meeting. City Hall, Plaza conference room (2nd floor), 500 Castro Street and see remote access details in the agenda file.
    For information on the City website:
    https://mountainview.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=1063794&GUID=F9C580AE-69A1-41D6-84D7-435B07C9DEBE
    Including:

    2. REVIEW
    2.1 705 West Dana Street, Lund Smith for Hope Dana LP
    Request for a Planned Community Permit and Development Review Permit to construct a new 3-story, 18,800 square foot commercial building with ground-floor restaurant and upper floor office with one level of publicly-accessible underground parking, replacing an existing auto repair shop, and a Heritage Tree Removal Permit to remove one Heritage tree on a 0.23-acre project site.
    2.2 920 Sierra Vista Avenue, Cynthia Munoz for Stoecker + Northway Architects
    Recommendation: Request for a Development Review Permit to construct a new approximately 8,106 square-foot multi-purpose building above a partially sub-grade parking level, and a Heritage Tree Removal Permit to remove three Heritage trees on an existing 1.92-acre church site.
  • Wednesday, September 20th, 6:00 PM: Parks and Recreation Commission meeting. City Hall, Plaza conference room (2nd floor), 500 Castro Street and see remote access details in the agenda file.
    For information on the City website:
    https://mountainview.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=1120577&GUID=B9CA93DE-95D8-441F-A765-1B4FFEB0F995
    Including:

    5.2 Parks and Recreation Strategic Plan Update and Commission Input
    Receive an update on the Parks and Recreation Strategic Plan and respond to three key questions from the consultant team.
  • Thursday, September 21st, 3:00 PM: Council Policy and Procedures Committee. City Hall, Plaza conference room (2nd floor), 500 Castro Street and see remote access details in the agenda file.
    For information on the City website:
    https://mountainview.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=1119923&GUID=C8C9A07A-B4A5-4A9A-9B8D-0A22FA07F863
  • ​Thursday, October 12th, 6:30 PM: Mountain View Coalition for Sustainable Planning (MVCSP) general meeting. Remote-access meetings at this time (no physical meeting place).  To connect with the meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/bnb-jyjv-uwr
    Or dial: ‪(US) +1 484-416-4647‬ PIN: ‪388 566 059‬#. More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/bnb-jyjv-uwr?pin=4249719644556
    ​    Agenda file: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qIw9NWoyc1Xp6OtJxoOmhmuuKQen57ZfWi8sCh_W8mQ/edit?usp=sharing
    Summary agenda:
    * Introductions, preliminaries
    * Presentation #1: Wayne Chen, City of Mountain View Housing Director on his new role, the City anti-displacement strategy, and other topics of interest.
    * Presentation #2: Mike Canfield, Mountain View Mountain View Police Department Chief on what he envisions as new chief
    * Update from Internal Operations Committee and Executive Committee
    * Update on Projects: Current and upcoming
    * Proactive Engagement Committee (update)
    * Development updates
    * Discuss past presentations
    * City Advisory Body updates
    * Updates from related community organizations
    * Final comments
  • ​For more about the above and other items, see NEWS AND UPDATES and CALENDAR.​​
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Related Organizations and Stakeholders in Mountain View
Organizations in and around Mountain View dedicated to making our city as sustainable as possible, in all ways:​​