Committee for Green Foothills
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 21, 2007 PRESS CONTACTS:
Holly Van Houten, Executive Director (x360)
Brian Schmidt, Legislative Advocate (x313)
phone (650) 968-7243 * [email protected]
Lennie Roberts, Legislative Advocate (650) 854-0449
Alpine Road Trail
“We are pleased by San Mateo County Supervisors Rich Gordon and Jerry Hill’s recommendation to reject the Alpine Road sidewalk proposal. Stanford tried to get out of its obligation to build a trail crossing its land in return for substantial development rights it received by moving the trail into
Stanford and
Tuesday’s anticipated Board action would reject the Alpine Road Trail and instead encourage
Under the agreement between
Background: Stanford required to provide two trails
The
In 2003, the County decided to split the planning of the two trails and moved forward with planning for the less-controversial “S1 Trail” first, and initiated an extensive review process to determine the S1 Trail alignment. Stanford offered an alternative alignment for the S1 Trail that moved it away from
, but when the County indicated in the fall of 2005 that it would accept that offer, Stanford added another condition. It offered to make the “S1 Trail” available immediately, but only if the County immediately decided to exclude the second trail, the “C1 Trail” from crossing Stanford lands in
Stanford and
Committee for Green Foothills Litigation on Stanford Trails
Open space advocacy group Committee for Green Foothills filed suit on June 9, 2006, against Stanford University and Santa Clara County, arguing that the County’s decision to exclude a required trail from Stanford lands in the County violated state law because it was done without any environmental review.
The lower court ruled in October that Committee for Green Foothills had only 30 days to file suit over the decision that Stanford and
Committee for Green Foothills filed an appeal in December, 2006, which is still pending before the court. To date, the court has not reviewed the merits of the case, but the appeals court should take a broader review of the issues.
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About the Committee for Green Foothills
Committee for Green Foothills is a regional grassroots organization working to establish and maintain land-use policies that protect the environment throughout
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