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Baseline Surveys

With an increasing need for solid data to demonstrate that programs are in fact accomplishing what they set out to practise, our cess tools allow u.s.a. to address the demand for both internal and external accountability. CommUniverCity has taken a somewhat unusual direction for a university-community partnership based on service-learning, shifting the center of gravity for evaluating touch on from the bookish to the community side. When engaging our projects with a downtown neighborhood, our service-learning students deport a baseline social capital survey with random samples of residents from that specific neighborhood. As social upper-case letter edifice is the long-term goal underlying all of CommUniverCity'southward projects, these surveys provide a valuable gauge to the ongoing impact for community residents. Survey projects serve equally both a service-learning inquiry opportunity for the educatee participants, as well as a valuable ongoing source of assessment data. Our almanac door-to-door surveys include questions focused on specific neighborhood priorities such as street-lighting, access to health care and educational opportunities, neighborhood satisfaction, equally well as awareness of CommUniverCity's efforts in the neighborhood. Below are the full assessment reports, created past our SJSU Urban & Regional Planning service-learning students, that include the baseline collection and analysis of data inside each neighborhood we have served.

Neighborhood Assessment Reports

Downtown to Diridon

Study

The City of San Jose'southward Diridon Station is currently served past several commuter and intercity rail lines and will exist served by California'southward Loftier Speed Track and regional BART commuter rails in the future. The SJSU graduate student teams analyzed existing weather condition, engaged dozens of community members, and produced a report with loftier-quality recommendations, ranging from improved wayfinding on specific streets, improving bike parking, and creating a multimodal path linking Diridon Station to Downtown. This report, which earned a Educatee Project Award from the American Planning Association, was presented to multiple City of San Jose departments whose representatives noted that the metropolis plans to implement a number of key recommendations identified by the students.

Delmas Park Neighborhood Assessment

Delmas Park is situated westward of Downtown San Jose, beyond from Highway 87. It's a walkable and transit-friendly neighborhood, conveniently located near SAP Eye and Diridon Station. Information technology is no surprise that Google chose this location for their forthcoming expansion — their access to key transit hubs is a major asset. The documentary video was created during Autumn 2017 by graduate students from the Urban and Regional Planning Department, who were enrolled in the service-learning course called URBP 295: Community Assessment. The documentary video portrays existing neighborhood weather and what makes Delmas Park unique. It also highlights personal stories from community leaders and key stakeholders nigh community avails and needs. The customs assessment written report volition be ready by summer 2018, which will present analyses related to community planning goals. One of the objectives of the community assessment report is to synthesize the community'southward priorities, which will assistance customs leaders advocate for positive changes in Delmas Park.

Northside Neighborhood Cess

The Northside Neighborhood sits but north of Downtown San José, assuasive residents to bask the community'due south walkability and "small boondocks feel" while taking advantage of its close proximity to San José'south center. It is approximately ane square mile and generally divisional past Hedding Street to the north, Julian Street to the south, Highway 101 and Coyote Creek to the eastward, and 6th Street to the west. The report presents the current conditions of the Northside Neighborhood and focuses on the ways that the neighborhood can benefit from San Jose's continued efforts to revitalize the area.

South Academy Neighborhood Assessment

Report

San José'due south Southward University Neighborhood stands among the city'south most eclectic places. This community cess was prepared by over 30 graduate students working as part of CommUniverCity. The written report presents the electric current weather condition in Lord's day and a snapshot of the different characteristics of the neighborhood. The results will help to lay the groundwork for more in-depth analyses of SUN, intended to aid residents build on the neighborhood'south strengths and engage with urban center staff and officials in a more informed, collaborative mode.

Greater Washington: Voces de la Comunidad

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This "Voice of the Customs" report highlights the neighborhood priorities that were identified past neighborhood residents every bit a result of an ongoing partnership betwixt the Greater Washington neighborhood, San José State University, Santa Clara University, CommUniverCity, and Catholic Charities.

Bicycle Safety Cess

Study

SJSU is located in the middle and downtown of San Jose. It'due south important that alternate modes of transportation are made readily attainable to campus in a safe manner. This technical report describes the findings of electric current conditions of cycle and pedestrian safety at SJSU, and the potential opportunities for the future of the campus.

E Santa Clara Street Assessment

Written report

Stretching along Due east Santa Clara Street from City Hall to the banks of Coyote Creek, the Urban Village study area features celebrated homes, mom-and-pop shops, and vivid local grapheme. The expanse still suffers from underuse, with many commercial buildings falling into states of fail and despair. In fall 2014 and spring 2015, San José State Academy Urban Planning students embarked on a detailed, nugget-based assessment of the neighborhood to assist the city'due south Planning Division with the first stage of the urban village master planning process.

Clean Creeks, Healthy Communities

The purpose of the Clean Creeks, Healthy Communities (CCHC) project is to improve h2o quality in Coyote Creek by preventing and removing trash that is the upshot of littering, illegal dumping, and homeless encampments along the creek. In partnership with the City of San José Environmental Services Section (ESD), San José State Academy'due south Urban and Regional Planning Section has engaged the residents in the neighborhoods surrounding the Coyote Creek Corridor in a series of surveys. The first survey was conducted in 2011 and a mid-project report was completed in 2013. This report focuses on the results of a Spring 2015 final survey conducted by students in the Departments of Urban & Regional Planning, Environmental Studies, and Anthropology. We are pleased to show the final report!

Fresh Carts Silicon Valley

Report

SJSU Urban Planning graduate educatee team in Fall 2013 avant-garde the mission of The Health Trust of Silicon Valley, and the City of San Jose, to expand admission to fresh produce in the city by encouraging mobile vending. In this report, students translated the circuitous Municipal Code into more user-friendly language for potential vendors and developed an interactive, web-based mapping tool to guide vendors to potential vending locations.

Hoffman-Via Monte Community Assessment

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The Hoffman-Via Monte (HVM) neighborhood is located six miles south of Downtown San Jose. This planning written report synthesizes the neighborhood cess and public engagement work conducted by an SJSU Urban and Regional Planning graduate educatee team in Fall 2013. The need for this assessment stemmed from quality of life concerns in HVM raised by Neighborhood Housing Services Silicon Valley (NHSSV) on behalf of the Responsible Landlord Date Initiative project. This initiative is composed of community members, property owners, residents, city officials, and community leaders dedicated to improving the quality of life in HVM and other San Jose communities.

Re-envisioning Downtown San José: An Integrative Arroyo to Renew St. James Square

Report

This urban design studio explored future possibilities for redevelopment and long-term management of public open up space, urban corridors, urban markets and transportation centers in downtown San José. The customs is currently focused on leveraging and renewing its existing public assets given the surface area's planned residential growth. Using the frameworks of social disinterestedness, economic development and sustainability, the studio collaborated with San José community and city representatives, conducted precedent assay, and performed in-depth fieldwork to back up design recommendations for three cadre urban areas as well equally the historic St. James Square. Upon completion of the project, community leaders selected various proposals for implementation. The students' urban analyses and blueprint intervention proposals which bridge several project phases tin can exist plant at: sjurbandesign.com.

Neighborhood Cess: Spartan Keyes

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Spartan Keyes is a key San José neighborhood situated less than one mile south of the SJSU Main Campus.  This study synthesizes the outcomes of a comprehensive customs assessment of the community and chronicles a number of efforts undertaken to collaboratively engage residents in the planning process to advance community-determined priorities.  The work was completed by fifty graduate students in our Customs Cess and Collaborative Neighborhood Planning studio courses and exemplifies the "out of the classroom and into the neighborhoods" approach that forms the cornerstone of those courses.  The finished report highlights the piece of work of our multi-talented students in the areas of quantitative assay, survey pattern and execution, cartography, clear writing, and graphic design.

CommUniverCity 2.0: Neighborhood Assessment and Recommendations

Written report

This technical planning report is the production of a research project conducted by a graduate pupil team in San José State University'south (SJSU) Department of Urban and Regional Planning for CommUniverCity San José.  Students completed a community cess to help inform CUC's future planning activities in Central San José. The team assessed existing conditions within a ane.five-mile radius of SJSU by compiling the most current demographic, economic, health, education, poverty and criminal offence data available. The information was analyzed and and so synthesized into a series of recommendations, which are organized nether x of the about pertinent findings (called "headlines" in this report) that volition have an impact on CommUniverCity future activities within the area.

Rubber Routes to School: Anne Darling Elementary and San José High School

Report

This report is a culmination of two semesters spent assessing conditions in the vicinity of two schools within San José's Five Wounds/Brookwood Terrace (FWBT) neighborhood: Anne Darling Simple and San José High School. Graduate students in San José Land University's Masters of Urban Planning Programme conducted the work in 2010 and 2011. Our primary objective in this written report is to synthesize our assessment findings and make recommendations for the implementation of Rubber Routes to School programs for these two schools. Such programs aim to identify and eliminate barriers to active commuting as one component of public health improvements.

Clean Creeks Healthy Community Project: Demographic Profile Comparing & Survey Results

Report

The Clean Creeks, Healthy Communities (CCHC) project strives to meliorate h2o quality in Coyote Creek by preventing and removing trash that results from littering, illegal dumping, and homeless encampments along the creek. In order to reduce trash in the creek, it'due south of import to engage with local residents to institute customs stewardship of the creek corridor. To achieve this goal, it'due south essential to have a baseline agreement of who lives in the community and what are their awareness of and attitudes towards the creek.

Urban Agriculture Policy in San José

Report

This report presents assay of urban agriculture policies in the City of San José equally well as some "all-time practices" from other U.Due south. cities.  A wide diversity of practices are included under the umbrella of "urban agronomics," including but not express to: co-op grocery stores, farmer'due south markets, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), community gardens, schoolhouse gardens, entrepreneurial gardens, pocket gardens, backyard gardens,  rooftop gardens, fruit copse, food-producing dark-green roofs, hobby beekeeping, food composting, and urban gardening classes. The written report was prepared every bit part of an independent study class conducted in Fall 2011.

Dorsa-Tockna Community Cess: City of San Jose Better Buildings Pilot Plan

Report

This report contains the key findings discovered during a thorough assessment of the Dorsa-Tockna neighborhood in east San José betwixt September 2010 and June 2011. It is intended to serve as platform of facts related to existing conditions in the neighborhood, upon which the City of San José's staff tin can implement and build its Amend Buildings Plan. This programme, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Free energy and using funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Deed of 2009, promotes large-calibration adoption of residential free energy efficiency retrofits in a variety of communities across the land.

V Wounds/Brookwood Terrace BART Station Area Community Concept Plan

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The 2010 Five Wounds/Brookwood Terrace BART Station Area Community Concept Plan (2010 CCP) documents conceptual plans, urban design guidelines, and associated implementation strategies for the surface area surrounding the planned Alum Rock Bay Expanse Rapid Transit (BART) Station. The impetus for conducting the 2010 CCP came direct from the Five Wounds/ Brookwood Terrace (FWBT) customs. Customs members have expressed a stiff want to be securely involved in formulating the characteristics of futurity public investments and private development for this strategic area.

Santee Neighborhood Community Assessment Analysis

Report

The Santee/Yerba Buena neighborhood is centrally located inside the Urban center of San José and is approximately two miles eastward of the downtown expanse. This report is the culmination of the collective work of xv graduate students of SJSU Urban and Regional Planning during the Fall 2010 semester, working in collaboration with Franklin-McKinley Children's Initiative (FMCI) and the Urban center of San José Strong Neighborhood'southward Initiative (SNI). As part of this collaborative process, the students decided to call the planning committee "Studio 201." The members of Studio 201 are grateful for the opportunity to have worked directly with FMCI, SNI, and the community members and leaders of the Santee neighborhood.

A Parking Utilization Survey of Transit-Oriented Development Residential Backdrop

Report

In the spring of 2010, a graduate course at SJSU in Urban and Regional Planning teamed upwards with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authorization (VTA) to report parking at transit-oriented evolution (TOD) residential projects in the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Expanse. Past observing the parking utilization rates at 12 housing developments nigh VTA light rail and Caltrain stations, this collaborative inquiry attempt produced valuable, local testify that the parking supply at projects of this type exceeds actual demand. In addition to corroborating recent inquiry which demonstrated that other TOD residential properties in the Bay Area are too "over-parked" (Cervero 2009), this written report provides useful evidence to assistance inform decision makers that less parking can and ought to be required for housing projects that are located near track transit service.

East Santa Clara Street Corridor: Assessment, Community Engagement, and Recommendations

Report

This document represents the culmination of piece of work conducted past San José Country Academy Masters caste candidates in the Urban and Regional Planning Department in the fall of 2009 and spring of 2010 semesters. We endeavored to create a well-constructed and usable customs assessment for a section of Eastward Santa Clara Street in downtown San José, the tenth-largest city in the United states of america. This cess of the corridor encapsulates existing conditions and includes ideas for future redevelopment and economic revitalization.

Alviso Community Assessment and Urban Design Analysis Report

Written report

The community of Alviso is located in northern San José at the southern-most point of San Francisco Bay where the vast, unbroken expanse of the bay'southward waters transition to a circuitous maze of sloughs, table salt evaporation ponds, tidal marshes, mudflats and rivers that are fed by drainage from the Santa Clara Valley. This study highlights the work of 24 Masters degree candidates of SJSU Urban and Regional Planning Department conducted an assessment of Alviso through statistical analyses, interviews with community members, photographs and extensive field research. Under the guidance of Richard M. Kos, AICP, student teams viewed Alviso from a wide range of angles – as statisticians, historians, social documentarians, information design specialists and ecologists.

San Jose Urban EcoPark

Report

During the spring of 2007, graduate students enrolled in "Urban Planning 260: Environmental Planning Topics" at San José State University's Department  of Urban & Regional Planning were tasked by the Environmental Services Department (ESD) at San Jose to develop a Master Plan for a proposed "Urban EcoPark" to be located at 1608 Las Plumas Avenue in San José. Development of the site was to occur in two phases. The program received the California Affiliate of the American Planning Clan Honor and the California Affiliate of the American Planning Association Northern Section'south Accolade for Outstanding Planning Accomplishment for a Student Project in 2008.

Renewing the Activity Agenda: Stiff Neighborhoods Initiative

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The Potent Neighborhoods Initiative (SNI), formally launched in 2000, is a partnership betwixt the Urban center of San José, San José the Redevelopment Agency (SJRA), and San José'due south residents and business owners. SNI aims to strengthen the City'south neighborhoods by edifice clean, safe, and strong neighborhoods with independent, capable, and sustainable resident leadership. Nineteen SNI areas cover about ten,000 acres that include older downtown and first-tier suburban neighborhoods. Each SNI expanse developed a Neighborhood Improvement Program (NIP) through the collaborative efforts of city agencies, citizen groups, community-based organizations, and community members. This handbook prepared past a planning squad of San José Land University faculty and students during the 2006-2007 academic yr is designed to serve as a template for each SNI surface area as it embarks on the process of renewing its Action Agenda and documenting it in a Neighborhood Improvement Plan Amendment (NIPA).

V Wounds Brookwood Terrace Neighborhood Improvement Plan Amendment

In 2002 the Five Wounds/Brookwood Terrace community adult a Neighborhood Improvement Plan (NIP) with principles, concepts, and strategies that guided improvement efforts and brought over $xc million in public funds to the customs during the adjacent 4 years. Encouraged by these remarkable accomplishments, the community worked diligently during the 2005-2006 academic twelvemonth to update its action calendar with the assistance of the San José State University urban planning team and city staff. Goals and strategies were renewed and documented in the Five Wounds/Brookwood Terrace Neighborhood Improvement Program Amendment (NIPA), a road map for the community, the city, and organizations that accept a pale in promoting a healthy, vibrant neighborhood.

Grand.O.Northward.A. Community Services Network

Report

Through the City of San José's Strong Neighborhoods Initiative procedure, residents of the King Ocala Neighborhood Expanse (Thousand.O.North.A.) identified greater partnership with schools, improved community services and enhanced community facilities equally pinnacle priorities. SJSU'due south Urban and Regional Planning Department conducted an assessment of the neighborhood'due south customs service strengths and needs, and conducted an open up participatory give-and-take with community stakeholders during the 2004-2005 academic year. This report identifies a network of community services every bit the vehicle to overcome these connectedness barriers and provide residents with attainable, high-quality customs services in a safe neighborhood surround.

Planning in San Jose: A Community Guide

In the 2004-2005 academic yr, the Metropolis of San José Planning Section deputed a squad of urban planning faculty and graduate students from SJSU to develop an introduction to land utilize planning and development for people unfamiliar with the process in the Urban center, as well as for those already acquainted with the exercise who want to learn more. The guide is a resources for residents, business owners and property owners, as well as for developers interested in edifice in San José. English Spanish

San José's Mayfair Community: Pedestrian/Bicyclist Safe and Neighborhood Convenience Study, Safe Routes for the Mayfair Community

Report

In the fall 2004, SJSU Urban and Regional Planning graduate students partnered with the Transportation and Land Use Coalition (TALC) and the Mayfair community to behave a study with the objective to provide the community with a reference and guide to: 1) better pedestrian and bike prophylactic on the way to and around enhanced omnibus or calorie-free rail stations along Alum Rock Artery; and 2) provide convenience services around the stations. This study includes a detailed demographic profile with an emphasis on the segment of the population that relies nearly on public transit.

24th & William Street Commercial Middle Improvement Program

Study

The William Street and 24th-McLaughlin commercial node is located within the V Wounds/Brookwood Terrace neighborhood in San José. During the 2002-2003 academic year, students and faculty from SJSU's Urban and Regional Planning Department worked with community members and city staff to assess electric current conditions at the commercial node. In this report, the team drafted a vision argument to accurately reflect the community's envisioned future for the commercial node and developed specific action steps to implement this vision.

33rd & McKee Commercial Node Improvement Plan

During the 2002-2003 academic year, students and faculty from SJSU'south Urban and Regional Planning Section conducted a written report of the ecology, physical and socio-cultural facts of the Anne Darling and Footling Portugal North neighborhoods. The squad solicited input from community members regarding their impression of and vision for their neighborhood and crafted recommendations based on land use surveys besides as concerns and ideas generated at customs workshops. Community members and city staff provided feedback on these recommendations. The improvement program presented in this report focuses on affordable and easily executable solutions that would provide the greatest do good to the neighborhood.

Tully-Senter School – Community Hub: Facilities and Services Assessment

In the 2002 Tully-Senter Neighborhood Improvement Plan, community members identified their ten pinnacle priority actions to improve their neighborhood. Leading the list was the establishment of a School Hub, a community facility that would provide space for multiple services. In the fall of 2003, the SJSU planning team contributed to the first phase in the implementation of the Schoolhouse-Community Hub. The purpose of the assessment was to determine whether a new community facility was indeed needed, before proceeding with the programming and conceptual design process. In this study, results of the assessment support the recommendation for a new community facility.

Seven Copse Neighborhood Program

Report

A squad of Urban Planning faculty and graduate students from SJSU worked with urban center staff and the Vii Copse Neighborhood Group during the 2000-2001 academic year to employ the Collaborative Neighborhood Planning model to articulate a commonage vision for the Vii Trees community. The university team recorded community feedback from public meetings and workshops and generated a plan to respond to public input. This report summarizes the planning process and has been used by city departments every bit a blueprint to direct public resource to farther strengthen the Seven Trees customs. More than importantly, information technology has also been used past neighborhood residents to set direction in their customs-building efforts.

Collaborative Programme: Bonita, Brookwood, Five Wounds, McKinley, and Olinder Neighborhoods

Report

This report presents a neighborhood improvement plan for 5 neighborhoods one mile e of downtown San José: Bonita, Brookwood Terrace, Five Wounds, McKinley and Olinder. It summarizes the views and concerns of its residents, outlines the existing weather in the customs, and presents recommendations for specific areas of intervention within the neighborhoods. The work was conducted during the 1998-1999 academic year, under the umbrella of San José Land'south Community Outreach Partnership Heart (SJSU COPC), sponsored past the U.Southward. Department of Housing and Urban Evolution (HUD), San José Land University's Office of the Provost and the Luke Hancock Foundation.

North Campus Area Program

Report

During the 1997-1998 academic year, faculty and students from the Urban and Regional Planning Department at SJSU worked in collaboration with members of the community and students from Horace Mann Academy to develop a programme for the urban neighborhood immediately north of the academy campus. San José's new half a one thousand thousand square anxiety Civic Middle complex, along with a number of cultural and support services, have relocated in the heart of this community seven years after the completion of the plan. This report outlines the existing atmospheric condition in the community and presents recommendations for special intervention areas within the neighborhood. It encapsulates the views and concerns of its residents and business customs and sets forth intervention strategies to work towards their vision.

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