North Crestview Park is a 4-acre site reputed to be the highest point in the city of San Carlos, offering stunning views both west to the Santa Cruz Mountains and east to the Bay and the East Bay hills. North Crestview Park is also a local wildlife corridor, located at the juncture between Devonshire Canyon...
We need your help to speak up for open space and sustainability, in Coyote Valley and elsewhere in San Jose. On Monday, August 21, San Jose City Councilmembers will hold a study session on the draft Environmental Sustainability Plan (ESP). Please join us in urging city councilmembers to ensure the ESP includes preservation of open space. ...
Last November, Redwood City announced that the Inner Harbor Specific Plan will be put on hold indefinitely. This plan would have changed Redwood City’s zoning and General Plan to allow over 1 million square feet of office space in four 9-story buildings out by the Bay, plus dredging of a shallow-water wetland habitat to create...
By Alice Kaufman One of the last significant pieces of open space in the Santa Clara Valley is once again threatened by industrial development. Nestled between the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Diablo Range in south San Jose, Coyote Valley spans over 7,400 acres – that’s seven times the size of Golden Gate Park. This...
Next Tuesday, August 23, the San Jose City Council will consider riparian corridor protections and bird-safe design guidelines. Please join me and support these protections and request the Council apply the voluntary bird-safe design guidelines to all riparian corridors, not just north of Highway 237. What’s Happening For years we have advocated with other groups...
By Alice Kaufman, Legislative Advocate In June, voters in all nine Bay Area counties will vote on the Clean and Healthy Bay ballot measure, which would authorize a $12 parcel tax to restore and protect the Bay. Committee for Green Foothills has endorsed this ballot measure, and we hope all our supporters will encourage everyone...
Advocate Alice Kaufman was in the Santa Clara Weekly yesterday. In the article, Council Establishes Task Force to Figure Out How to Calculate Development Fees (2/17/16), Carolyn Schuk explains what’s next for Santa Clara city parks. Schuk mentions our recent “letter-writing campaign, organized…to tell Santa Clara City Council to Protect Parks, because developers are pushing councilmembers to reduce...
Last week I sent an action alert asking you to speak up for Santa Clara City parks. For those of you who couldn’t make it to the city council meeting on January 26, I wanted to share a quick update with you. At the meeting, the councilmembers voted to create a task force to come...
Next Tuesday, January 26, 2016, Santa Clara City Councilmembers will hold a study session to decide whether to drastically reduce the amount of fees developers are required to pay to fund city parks. Please join me and speak up for parks and tell the City Council to follow their staff’s recommendation for park impact fees....
By Alice Kaufman, Legislative Advocate How should you design a levee? Most people would answer that levees are intended for flood protection, and that bare or nearly bare earthen embankments, with water on one side and land on the other, do the job. The levees we are most familiar with in the Bay Area are...
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