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🚨BREAKING! If YOU don’t want your 10 Acres of our historic civic center lands given away to the Oracle Corporation, read below and make your voice heard this Tuesday, May 19, 7pm @ City Hall . BE THERE or CALL IN TO ZOOM ‼️

👉🏼Santa Clara is considering a proposal to move City Hall from Warburton Avenue to the old Agnews property near Oracle.

The proposal involves an Exclusive Negotiation Agreement between the City and VOP Agnews, LLC meaning no final approval has been made yet. The agreement would allow both sides to study a possible land swap and future development plans.

Under the concept:

1). City Hall could move to Agnews
2). The current City Hall site could later become housing
3). The developer would continue residential development on other Agnews property

The City says the current City Hall is outdated, too small, and spread across multiple buildings. Environmental review and future approvals would still be required before anything moves forward.

The City Council hearing is Tuesday, May 19, 2026.

• Via Zoom:
o https://santaclaraca.zoom.us/j/99706759306
Meeting ID: 997-0675-9306
o Phone 1(669) 900-6833

Or in person at city hall
You can also call your council-members as listed below:

Moving City Hall to Agnews?! Not a good idea! Another generational mistake! Vote no. Focus on the 2023 council approved Downtown Precise Plan. The only Bay Area city with NO Downtown. Destroyed in 1963.

City Council Agenda

May 19, 2026

Item 7 26-566

Declaration of Property as Exempt Surplus Land and Approval

of Exclusive Negotiation Agreement with Valley Oak Partners for

a Potential Land Exchange of the City Hall Civic Center Campus

(1405 Civic Center Drive, APN 224-25-074) for the Agnews

Office Park and Historic Site (4220 Network Circle, APNS

216-33-022 and 097-08-114) and Direction on the Formation of

Community Advisory Committee

Recommendation:

Adopt Resolution Declaring Real Property Owned

by the City to be Exempt Surplus Land and

Approving an Exclusive Negotiation Agreement

between the City and Agnews VOP, LLC for a

Potential Land Exchange and City Hall

Improvement Project which includes:

a. Declaring the current City Hall property to be

exempt surplus land;

b. Authorizing the City Manager to sign and

execute the Exclusive Negotiation Agreement

in substantially the form presented, in a final

form approved by the City Attorney; and

Authorizing the City Manager to perform all

other acts, and enter into other agreements or

sign documents necessary to carry out the

purposes of the Resolution.

Authorize the City Manager to execute property

owner authorization forms and related documents

necessary to permit the submission, processing,

and evaluation of development applications,

entitlement applications, environmental review

documents, and related materials associated with

the proposed project on City-owned property,

provided that such authorization shall not

constitute approval of any project, land use

entitlement, environmental determination, or

final transaction by the City; and

Direct staff to bring back the formation of a

Community Advisory Committee, with each

Councilmember appointing one representative

from their district, and the Mayor an at-large

Council Action

Council action