Final Specific Plan Adopted 2023: Environmental Wins in Sunnyvale’s Moffett Park Specific Plan (MPSP)
Sunnyvale - Moffett Park Specific Plan Update
Sunnyvale envisions Moffett Park as a new “Eco-Innovation” district, presenting an opportunity for transformative planning to create a future mixed-use district that is resilient, biodiverse, sustainable, and livable. The proposed land use map lays out office, housing, industrial and mixed-use activity zones, but that’s as far as it goes. Putting the “ecology” into “Eco-innovation,” will require dedicated spaces and specific, dependable commitments to ensure flood resilience, biodiversity, sustainability and livability.
Our Goals
- Protect existing wetlands and shoreline open space within and adjacent to the Plan area.
- Maximize shoreline and creekside setbacks to optimize for biodiversity and natural sea level rise resilience.
- Protect wildlife through bird-safe design, dark skies policies, and stepped back building heights along riparian corridors.
- Expand urban canopy, habitat-rich open space, and low-impact recreation opportunities throughout the plan area to balance the scale and offset the impacts of intensified residential and commercial activity.
- Include substantial developer investments to fund SLR resilience among priority public benefits.
Links:
- NPR: Who Will Pay To Protect Tech Giants From Rising Seas?
- SFEI Technical Report on Urban Ecology
- Background Technical Report on Sea Level Rise Adaptation
- Understanding the Future Series Part 6 - Flooding and Sea-level Rise Adaptation
- 8/7/20 Conservation Letter
- 3/30/21 Conservation Letter
- 9/17/21 NoP Scoping Letter
- BCDC’s Adapting to Rising Tides Explorer
Moffett Park Plan area with 2 feet of SLR plus a King tide. Credit: BCDC Adapting to Rising Tides, Bay Shoreline Flood Explorer
