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Jan 21, 2022

Very important to start with this link RishiKumar.com/ManagedGrowth and this
RishiKumar.com/HCDAudit
That will set the foundation for your engagement with this housing topic.

Below are a series of blogs - most recent first - that you can browse through. You will find nuggets of info in each of these articles below.

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Abomination...not voted by me

This morning I woke up to the single thought of how awful would it be for Saratoga when these housing projects go live This is the city I love and served with integrity and pragmatism….I have taken on sharp arrows, fought tough battles while no one from the city council joined me…

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

Rishi Kumar for Congress

What happens next for Saratoga?

“We are seeing small changes from meeting to meeting that are making us go in circles,” Saratoga resident David Gremer said. “We are hearing the same arguments that we’ve heard in previous meetings, and we aren’t really making any progress.” Now that Housing Element sites are selected, and now that we are set up for a colossal failure, I am being asked t…

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

Rishi Kumar for Congress

Bad night for Saratoga

Dear neighbors, The train wreck keeps moving forward: Our city council approved the Housing Element sites with a 4-1 vote last night - see the list below. I voted against it - the only dissenting vote. Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is legendary: A government of the people. by the people, for the people…

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

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I need your help

Dear neighbor, I seek your help on the Housing Element. Four councilmembers are marching fast and furious forward - when I have been saying for weeks that we should slow down as we are far ahead compared in the Housing Element timeline compared to other cities. I have given up,. But you can help…

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

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How do we correct this?

This email is in three parts. It is rather long, but the issue is complex and there is a lot that needs to be fixed to do this right. A summary of why I am NOT moving forward with the “whack a mole” approach approach of the city council The issues I have observed so far that need remedy…

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

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20 stories in 2030?

I am seeking your input - take 2 minutes and take the survey I am looking for your input based on the fiasco at yesterday’s city council meeting, where councilmembers are blindly follow staff recommendation and are in a desperate hurry to move forward with the Housing Element, while other cities are doing the due diligence and want to do it right. This i…

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

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The Whack a Mole approach

Here is my statement from the 9AM Saratoga City Council meeting. The Housing Element approach is not right and I cannot stand by a faulty approach that is not serving our citizens well. I am not ready to go through and consider sites when this is not driven holistically as I have explained it should be at…

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

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We are winning the train wreck race

Earlier today, I was informed via a Cupertino contact that Cupertino’s RHNA housing sites just made it to their Planning Commission and deliberations have begun. After a few meetings - the sites proposal will be eventually tossed over by the Planning Commission to the Cupertino City Council for discussion and action…

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

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The agenda packet for Friday, Jan 28th

Below is the city council agenda packet for the Friday 9AM city council meeting A few net new housing sites have been added for consideration - find it here. Please review it. As you know, at the Jan 20th meeting, each councilmember was asked to propose new sites that they wanted added to the site list for consideration/discussion at Friday’s 9AM meetin…

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

Rishi Kumar for Congress

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

Rishi Kumar for Congress

Take the Housing survey

I am keen to hear your opinion on the state of the housing element - take the 2-minute survey at tinyurl.com/StopTheTrainWreck The Sacramento mandate to certify Saratoga's Housing Element and to plan for 1700 new housing units by January 2023 has divided our community. This is the most significant issue we have faced in 6 decades and will change the cha…

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

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Chasing Fool's gold

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

Rishi Kumar for Congress

Fools rush in where...

Today’s city council meeting had over a hundred public testimonies - about 540 in attendance. Our city council decided to not deliberate and move forward on the housing topic at this late hour to ensure transparency with decision making. Democracy is at work and so many Saratogans are exercising their right to speech and expression. They are providing …

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

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Audit the California Department of Housing

Happy New Year! Have you noticed the brewing housing crisis? Cities are reeling with the push to build high-density housing via housing mandates like SB-9, SB-10 and the Housing Element's inflated RHNA numbers. It is clear that the California Department of Housing & Community Development's (HCD) RHNA numbers provided to our cities…

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

Rishi Kumar for Congress

Tread carefully with the housing element

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

Rishi Kumar for Congress

Saratoga's Housing Element

Click here to read my op-ed piece on housing. The Housing Element is the hottest topic of discussion in Saratoga and will continue to do so in 2022. I have always been a proponent of managed growth - Yes, we need housing, but I have pushed for an approach that is pragmatic and based on the foundation of a proper urban plan. Not this approach, that is ha…

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

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Housing Element (Winter is coming)

The push for high-density housing from Sacramento legislations and The Housing Element housing mandates is raising huge concerns today. Our neighbors are angry and beginning to engage! There are huge changes coming to our cities and it behooves us to engage now and ensure that we do the right thing…

3 years ago · 🇺🇸 Rishi Kumar 🇺🇸

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