BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
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Adopt a Resolution Setting Time and Date of a Public Hearing on the Engineer’s Report and CEQA Exemption Determination for the Valley Water Demonstration Garden Project, Under the Headquarters Operations Building Project, Project No. 60204032,(San Jose, District 4).
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RECOMMENDATION: Recommendation
Adopt the Resolution SETTING TIME AND DATE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE ENGINEER’S REPORT AND CEQA EXEMPTION DETERMINATION FOR THE VALLEY WATER DEMONSTRATION GARDEN PROJECT, to occur on October 27, 2026, at 1:00 PM, in the Boardroom at Santa Clara Valley Water District, Headquarters Building, 5700 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, California.
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SUMMARY:
The objective of the Valley Water Demonstration Garden Project (Project) is to construct a functional, public demonstration garden on Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water) grounds outside of the Headquarters building at 5700 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA. The Valley Water Demonstration Garden will highlight a watershed approach to landscaping and provide a community gathering and educational space. Specifically, the garden will showcase Valley Water’s Landscape Rebate Program, serving tangible examples of water efficient landscaping, rainwater capture, and high efficiency irrigation for the public to engage with and to learn from.
The Project’s scope of work entails the relandscaping of approximately 26,000 square feet of struggling, existing landscape with water efficient plants and mulch, constructing an educational gathering space including a shade structure, concrete seat walls, and public art, re-grading the area, installing permeable hardscape, installing a rain cistern, renovating the existing stormwater drainage system in the landscape, installing outdoor lighting, and installing interpretative signage. The construction work is tentatively scheduled...
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