Welcome!

This blog started when a small group of Santa Clara residents concerned about the proposed San Francisco 49ers stadium connected through email. We share a sense of shock that our city of just over 100,000 residents is preparing to commit around $300 million in assets to this project.

Perhaps most shocking of all is that at least four members of the City Council have already expressed clear support for this project before any independent financial impact studies have been completed.

The San Francisco 49ers organization is well-funded and well-organized, and while our group can’t match them in either of those areas, we can provide an impartial, thoughtful, and detailed analysis of the proposal.

Most of us are not absolutely opposed to a stadium under any circumstances, but we share a conviction based on evidence and facts that anything close to the current 49ers proposal is a bad investment for the City of Santa Clara.

In the coming weeks and months, we will be posting reports, questions, links to articles, reminders about upcoming meeting, and other information and analysis to help the voters of Santa Clara get the information they need to make a truly informed choice.

If you have questions, comments, or concerns, please email them to us using the “Contact Us” link.

Working together, we believe that we can truly change the debate on this important issue.