(Guest posting by Chris Montague-Breakwell) The endangered California red-legged frog’s proposed critical habitat has been slashed by more than 80 percent. A lawsuit by a group of developers brought a court order reducing the frog’s designated critical habitat. Under the new proposal, large areas along the Half Moon Bay and Montara coastlines will lose Federal...
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Come on Stanford
Follow this link to a commercial that played on television during the Stanford/USC football game several weeks ago: Come on Stanford I think it helps show the depth of concern over Stanford’s attempt to widen the Alpine Road sidewalk instead of putting in a new trail. While we at CGF were aware of the commercial,...
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More allies for the environment
The New York Times had an interesting article on growing environmentalism among Christian evangelists. They’re focusing recently on global warming, which is very related to our mission of land use protection, and on protecting the Endangered Species Act from attack, also a concern of ours. Religious issues and controversies are very far away from our...
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Congratulations, Mayor Ron Gonzales
(Yes, you are looking at the Committee for Green Foothills webpage.) We criticize leaders when they make the wrong decisions and congratulate them for making the right ones. So while we often disagree with San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales, we want to congratulate him now for making San Jose the 74th city in the world...
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Stanford trails at Palo Alto candidates’ forum
Acterra recently sponsored a forum for Palo Alto City Council candidates to discuss environmental issues. The forum can be viewed online here, divided up by the questions candidates answered. Particularly interesting were candidates’ answers to a question regarding Stanford’s attempt to use the existing Alpine Road sidewalk as one of the two trails it was...
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The Tale of Jane and John
The Tale of Jane and John – A Land Use Parable Jane Forthright just inherited a vacant, 39-acre parcel in Santa Clara County. This parcel has had a Williamson Act contract attached to it for years, which gave a tax break in return for requiring agricultural use and prohibiting development that is incompatible with agriculture....
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Preserving our business/environment
I was gratified to see The Mercury News run our Letter to the Editor, following up on this well-done Op-Ed by Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s CEO, Carl Guardino. Our letter is here at the newspaper website, and I’m reprinting it below. -Brian —— Environment is our responsibility Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s president, Carl Guardino, emphasized...
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Absolute power is mine!
Well, the title to this post may be slightly exaggerated – I’ve been named a member of the Stakeholder Group for the Santa Clara Valley Habitat Conservation Plan/Natural Community Conservation Plan (HCP/NCCP), a position that might fall slightly short of Absolute Power Over the Universe. Still, I hope to help influence the development of the...
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One more problem with Coyote Valley development
San Jose plans to discontinue its Technical Advisory Committee meetings for Coyote Valley development, a process that gave CGF more input than in the Coyote Valley Task Force meetings. We emailed in our response, which I’ve attached below. -Brian ——– Dear Sal, As a member of the Coyote Valley Specific Plan Technical Advisory Committee, I...
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1,500 stitches in time same save 69,000
The rhyme doesn’t work as well when you add a few digits, but the idea is the same. The Chronicle reports on attempts to stop an invasive plant in San Francisco Bay. The plant, a hybrid version of Atlantic cordgrass, has already taken over 1,500 acres of the Bay and threatens 69,000 more, including South...