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42-560: Comptech , also known as Comptech Racing, is a company that designs and builds racing car engines. It was originally started in Sunnyvale, California , in the late 1970s by Doug Petersen and Don Erb. The company moved to a new location in Rancho Cordova, California, in the mid 1980s, then to El Dorado Hills, California. The original Comptech closed its doors in February 2007. The race engine shop

84-407: A DPS due to their diversity, though there is a critical exception in certain local jurisdictions (as further explained below). In other countries, equivalent agencies may be known as the ministry of the interior . In U.S. state or local governments that do not have a DPS, equivalent agencies may be known as the department of emergency services . The United States Department of Homeland Security

126-695: A consolidated DPS since 1950. In the California State Legislature , Sunnyvale is in the 13th Senate District , represented by Democrat Josh Becker , and in the 24th Assembly District , represented by Democrat Alex Lee . In the United States House of Representatives , Sunnyvale is in California's 17th congressional district , represented by Democrat Ro Khanna . Department of Public Safety These responsibilities are usually organized into separate agencies under

168-715: A number of ground-floor businesses, and the lawsuit against Wells Fargo was resolved in the bank's favor. The development was sold to Sares Regis in late 2016. Redwood Square reopened as a park in 2017. Many apartments are occupied, and more are being completed in 2020. A Whole Foods Market and AMC Theatres multiplex opened in October 2020. In the 2010s, Sunnyvale became home to operations from numerous major technology companies including Apple , LinkedIn (now headquartered in Sunnyvale), Google , Amazon , Meta , Walmart Labs , and 23andMe . Google announced major development plans in

210-454: A population of 155,805. The population density was 6,596 inhabitants per square mile (2,547/km ). The racial makeup of Sunnyvale was 46,551 (29.9%) White , 2,228 (1.4%) African American , 1,081 (0.7%) Native American , 77,842 (49.9%) Asian , 491 (0.3%) Pacific Islander , 14,181 (9.1%) from other races , and 13,431 (8.6%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 25,372 persons (16.3%). Non-Hispanic Whites were 27.8% of

252-482: A population of 155,860 residents. In November 2009, previously closed portions of the main streets in downtown Sunnyvale were reopened as part of the ongoing downtown redevelopment of the Sunnyvale Town Center mall, marking the first time in over three decades that those street blocks have been open to vehicle and pedestrian traffic. Part of the project involved building new apartment buildings, however during

294-460: Is located in a sunny region adjacent to areas with significantly more fog. Sunnyvale continued to grow and in 1904, dried fruit production began. Two years later, Libby, McNeill & Libby , a Chicago meat-packing company, decided to open its first fruit-packing factory in Sunnyvale. Today, a water tower painted to resemble the first Libby's fruit cocktail can label identifies the former site of

336-576: Is more expensive to hire, train and retain such personnel, they have a clear advantage in terms of their flexibility. They can respond as first responders to many rapidly evolving situations rather than waiting for the arrival of other specialized personnel. This configuration was more widely popular in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States, but has since gone out of style because relatively few cities have been able to execute it successfully because of manpower limitations in handling major incidents. In

378-449: Is one of the few U.S. cities to have a single unified Department of Public Safety , where all personnel are trained as firefighters , police officers , and EMTs , so that they can respond to an emergency in any of the three roles. The Santa Clara Valley was heavily populated by the indigenous Ohlone people when the Spanish first arrived in the 1770s. However, following the arrival of

420-548: Is selected from the six city council members by the mayor and city council, serving a one-year term. The city council hires a city manager to run the day-to-day operations of the city government. Sunnyvale is the largest city in the United States that uses a consolidated department of public safety , with sworn officers who are fully cross-trained to perform police , firefighting , and emergency medical services . Officer assignments are rotated annually, with some specialist assignments lasting up to five years. Sunnyvale has had

462-683: Is the federal-level department of public safety of the United States, which is responsible for federal supervision of emergency services for major disasters through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In state governments in the United States , the DPS is often a law enforcement agency synonymous with the state police . At local and special district levels, they may be all-encompassing. Examples of states having these include Texas , Minnesota , Tennessee , Arizona , Alabama , Oklahoma , and South Carolina . In many states

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504-580: The 24 Hours of Daytona Race in the World Sportscar Class in 1994 and 1995. During the open engine builder era in IndyCar, Comptech built engines for the following teams: Comptech's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is Frederick W. Penney. Comptech's sister company, Penney Racing Supply was also the sole distributor of Goodyear Short Track tires in the United States until Goodyear discontinued these tires in 2013. Since then, Penney Racing Supply has been

546-520: The Great Recession the property was repossessed by Wells Fargo in 2009; the developer countersued, leaving the project in legal limbo through 2015. The two office buildings are now fully occupied by Uber . Mixed-use developments have been built at the former Town and Country location near the Plaza del Sol just north of Murphy Avenue. By mid 2015, new multistory apartment complexes had opened, including

588-474: The state police may be a subdivision of the DPS and not its own independent department. Many local jurisdictions (cities and counties), and special districts (schools and hospitals) have the umbrella configuration described above, in which the DPS is simply a joint administration of several distinct agencies. They may share administrative support staff and back-office functions, but sworn personnel remain specialized and have particular responsibilities (that is,

630-566: The 1900s, as "the City of Destiny". Also in 1897, Encinal School opened as the first school in Murphy. Previously, children in the town had to travel to Mountain View for school. The area also became known as Encinal. In 1901, the residents of Murphy were informed they could not use the names Encinal or Murphy for their post office. Sunnyvale was given its current name on March 24, 1901. It was named Sunnyvale as it

672-644: The Comptech Racing to use the V6 motor of the all-new Acura NSX in Comptech's Camel Lights Spice prototype. Acura would go on to take the Lights championship in its initial year, including a class win at the 24 Hours of Daytona. Acura and Comptech would take the Lights championships again in 1992 and 1993, as well as another Daytona class win in 1992 and a class win at the 12 Hours of Sebring for 1993. Comptech engines performed well in

714-535: The Moffett Park area in 2017 adjacent to Moffett Field , with these offices ultimately opening in 2022. In addition, Amazon and Meta began leasing buildings in Sunnyvale in 2017 and 2021, respectively. Sunnyvale is located at 37°22′7.56″N 122°2′13.4″W  /  37.3687667°N 122.037056°W  / 37.3687667; -122.037056 . According to the United States Census Bureau ,

756-822: The Spaniards, smallpox , measles , and other Old World diseases greatly reduced the Ohlone population. While some of the Ohlone Native Americans died from diseases, others survived and were converted to Christian faith by the Spanish. In 1777, Mission Santa Clara was founded by Franciscan missionary Padre Junipero Serra and was originally located in San Jose (near what is now the San Jose International Airport runway). In 1843, Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas

798-556: The aircraft manufacturer Lockheed moved its headquarters to Sunnyvale. Since then, numerous high-tech companies have established offices and headquarters in Sunnyvale, including Advanced Micro Devices and Yahoo . The first prototype of Atari 's coin-operated Pong , the first successful video game, was installed in Sunnyvale in August 1972 in a bar named Andy Capp's Tavern, now Rooster T. Feathers. Atari's headquarters were located at 1196 Borregas Avenue in north Sunnyvale. By 2002,

840-591: The area. Martin Murphy Jr. came to California with his father as part of the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party in 1844. In 1850, Martin Murphy Jr. bought a piece of Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas for $ 12,500. Murphy established a wheat farm and ranch named Bay View. Murphy had the first wood-frame house in Santa Clara County ; it was shipped from New England . The house was demolished in 1961 but

882-496: The city has a total area of 22.7 sq mi (58.8 km ), of which, 22.0 sq mi (56.9 km ) of it is land and 0.69 sq mi (1.8 km ) of it (3.09%) is water. Its elevation is 130 feet above sea level. Like most of the San Francisco Bay Area, Sunnyvale has a Mediterranean climate ( Köppen Csb ), with cool, moist winters and warm, very dry summers. Average daytime summer temperatures are in

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924-510: The city's 2023 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, the top employers in the city are: The City of Sunnyvale uses the council–manager form of government, with a city council consisting of seven members elected to fill individual seats. Starting in November 2020, the mayor is directly elected to a four-year term in a city-wide election. The six council members are elected to four year terms from six districts in even-year elections. The vice-mayor

966-506: The county (after San Jose ) and the seventh most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area . As one of the major cities that make up California's high-tech area known as Silicon Valley , Sunnyvale is the birthplace of the video game industry, former location of Atari headquarters. Many technology companies are headquartered in Sunnyvale and many more operate there, including several aerospace/defense companies. Sunnyvale

1008-569: The exclusive West Coast wholesale distributor of American racing tires. They are also affiliated with Pacific Challenge Series . Patrick Dempsey recently raced in the Long Beach Grand Prix using a Comptech engine. Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ( / ˈ s ʌ n i v eɪ l , v əl / ) is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California . Sunnyvale lies along

1050-587: The factory. Also in 1906, the Joshua Hendy Iron Works relocated from San Francisco to Sunnyvale after the company's building was destroyed by fire after the 1906 earthquake. The ironworks was the first non-agricultural industry in the town. The company later switched from producing mining equipment to other products such as marine steam engines . In 1912, the residents of Sunnyvale voted to incorporate, and Sunnyvale became an official city. Fremont High School first opened in 1923. The year 2023 marked

1092-588: The farm labor in Santa Clara County. This percentage reduced over time after the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed. In the following decade, the 1890s, many immigrants from Italy , the Azores , Portugal , and Japan arrived to work in the orchards. In 1897, Walter Everett Crossman bought 200 acres (810,000 m ) and began selling real estate. He advertised the area as "Beautiful Murphy" and later, in

1134-562: The few remaining orchards had been replaced with homes and shops. However, there are still city-owned orchards, such as the Heritage Orchard next to the Sunnyvale Community Center. In 1979, an indoor mall called Sunnyvale Town Center opened in what used to be a traditional downtown shopping district. After years of successful operation, the mall started to decline in the 1990s. After numerous changes in plans and ownership,

1176-536: The first commercial fruit cannery in the county. Fruit agriculture for canning soon became a major industry in the county. The invention of the refrigerated rail car further increased the viability of an economy based upon fruit. The fruit orchards became so prevalent that in 1886, the San Jose Board of Trade called Santa Clara County the "Garden of the World". In the 1880s, Chinese workers made up roughly one third of

1218-425: The high 70s, and during the winter, average daytime high temperatures rarely stay below 50 °F (10 °C). Snowfall is rare, but on January 21, 1962, and February 5, 1976, measurable snowfall occurred in Sunnyvale and most of the San Francisco Bay Area . Sunnyvale was briefly hit by tornadoes in 1951 and 1998, but otherwise they are extremely rare. The 2020 United States census reported that Sunnyvale had

1260-405: The historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the north, Moffett Federal Airfield and NASA Ames Research Center to the northwest, Mountain View to the northwest, Los Altos to the southwest, Cupertino to the south, and Santa Clara to the east. Sunnyvale's population was 155,805 at the 2020 census , making it the second most populous city in

1302-480: The mall was demolished in 2007. Sunnyvale celebrated its one-hundredth anniversary on August 25, 2012. According to the Bay Area Census, there was a total population of 130,885 people in households and 875 people in group quarters in 2000. In 2023, the city has a population of 145,302 residents; however, the city's population is declining at a rate of −6.77% since the 2020 census, which claimed that Sunnyvale had

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1344-452: The police continue to arrest people and the firefighters put out fires). The DPS of Cobb County, Georgia is one example. However, a minority of jurisdictions have departments of public safety which have primary and direct responsibility for all emergencies. In these unusual organizations, all full-time sworn personnel are cross-trained as police officers , firefighters and EMTs , and can respond to emergencies in any capacity. Although it

1386-564: The population in 2020, compared to 74.7% in 1980. There were 59,567 households, out of which 16,133 (27%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 31,557 (53.0%) were married opposite-sex couples living together, 4,069 (6.8%) had a female householder with no husband present, 2,908 (4.9%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 3,382 (5.7%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships , and 657 (1.1%) same-sex married couples or partnerships . 14,970 households (25.1%) were made up of individuals, and 5.7% had someone living alone who

1428-534: The school's 100 year anniversary. In 1924, Edwina Benner was elected to her first term as mayor of Sunnyvale. She was the second female mayor in the history of the state of California . In 1930, Congress decided to place the West Coast dirigible base in Sunnyvale after "buying" the 1,000-acre (4.0 km ) parcel of farmland bordering the San Francisco Bay from the city for $ 1. This naval airfield

1470-423: The war effort. As the defense industry grew, a shortage of workers in the farm industry was created. Immigrants from Mexico came to Sunnyvale to fill this void of workers. Following the war, the fruit orchards and sweetcorn farms were cleared to build homes, factories and offices. In 1950 the volunteer fire department and the paid police department were combined into the department of public safety. In 1956,

1512-566: Was 35.2 years. For every 100 females, there were 109.3 males. There were 63,065 housing units, of which 45.8% were owner-occupied, and 54.2% were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.1%; the rental vacancy rate was 5.3%. 72,485 people (46.5% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 80,220 people (51.5%) lived in rental housing units. Companies based in Sunnyvale include Infinera , Fortinet , Intuitive Surgical , Juniper Networks , LinkedIn , Proofpoint, Inc. , Matterport, Inc. , and Trimble Inc. According to

1554-422: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.54. There were 38,750 families (65.0% of all households); the average family size was 3.09. The population was spread out, with 32,453 people (20.8%) under the age of 18, 9,641 people (6.2%) aged 18 to 24, 57,977 people (37.2%) aged 25 to 44, 34,330 people (22.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 20,683 people (13.2%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

1596-507: Was also the home to Onizuka Air Force Station , often referred to as "the Blue Cube" because of the color and shape of its windowless main building. The facility, previously known as Sunnyvale Air Force Station, was named for the deceased Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka . It served as an artificial satellite control facility of the U.S. military until August 2010 and has since been decommissioned and demolished. Sunnyvale

1638-458: Was granted to Francisco Estrada and his wife Inez Castro. Portions of the land given in this grant later developed into the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale. Two years later, in 1844, another land grant was provided to Lupe Yñigo, one of the few Native Americans to hold land grants. His land grant was first called Rancho Posolmi , named in honor of a village of the Ohlone that once stood in

1680-544: Was later renamed Naval Air Station Moffett and then Moffett Federal Airfield and is commonly called Moffett Field. In 1939, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the forerunner of NASA ) began research at Ames Laboratory . During World War II, the war economy began a change from the fruit industry to the high-tech industry in Santa Clara County. The Joshua Hendy Iron Works built marine steam engines, naval guns and rocket launchers to aid in

1722-542: Was purchased by a previously existing circle track racing supply company, Penney Racing. Comptech's Chief Executive Officer is Frederick W. Penney. The wildly successful aftermarket parts side is still in operation today under the name 'CT Engineering' run out of Rancho Cordova, California. Comptech started Honda North America's race efforts in mid 1980s by preparing the first Honda Race Car in North America (1985 Honda CRX). Starting in 1991, Acura reached an agreement with

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1764-653: Was reconstructed in 2008 as the Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum . When he died in 1884, his land was divided among his heirs. In 1860, The San Francisco and San Jose Rail Road was allowed to lay tracks on Bay View and established Murphy Station. Lawrence Station was later established on the southern edge of Bay View. In the 1870s, small fruit orchards replaced many large wheat farms, because wheat farming turned uneconomical due to county and property tax laws, imports and soil degradation . In 1871, Dr. James M. Dawson and his wife Eloise (née Jones) established

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