On February 16, 2021, Green Foothills joined 40 federal, state and local elected officials and 16 other environmental organizations in requesting the Biden administration to withdraw the appeal of the district court’s ruling in our favor against the Trump administration over the Cargill salt ponds. In 2019, the Trump administration attempted to declare the Cargill...
Published in The Daily Journal on 3/11/20 Recently, Redwood City leaders were informed that Cargill and its development partner, luxury housing developer DMB Associates, would be conducting a poll of residents concerning potential development on the Cargill-owned salt ponds in Redwood City. These salt ponds, which stretch more than 1,400 acres of Bay tidal flats...
Committee for Green Foothills was proud to join San Mateo County Supervisor Dave Pine, East Palo Alto Mayor Lisa Gauthier, David Lewis of Save the Bay, and Dan Ponti of Redwood City Neighbors United at a press conference last week opposing development on the Cargill salt ponds in Redwood City. Speaking at the press conference,...
Thank you to those of you who have already signed our petition to stop the Cargill “Saltworks” project and urge that the salt ponds be restored to wetlands. There are many other sites on the Peninsula where new development can be located, but there is nowhere else where 1,400 acres of former wetlands can be...
By Alice Kaufman, Legislative Advocacy Director and Dan Ponti, President of Redwood City Neighbors United This article originally appeared as an op-ed in the San Mateo Daily Journal on 11/13/17. In July of this year, the Redwood City Council overruled its own Planning Commission and voted to initiate proceedings to amend the General Plan for...
Nearly a year ago, Redwood City decided to shelve its draft Inner Harbor Specific Plan after Committee for Green Foothills, other groups, and local residents objected to various aspects of the plan – including Harbor View, a massive office project of four 9-story towers and two parking structures. Now, although the Inner Harbor Specific Plan...
This spring marks the one-year anniversary of the release of Deep Roots, Green Future, our 50-year vision for our region’s coast, forests, creeks, bay, hillsides, farmland, and urban areas. We are pleased to say that we’ve already made real progress towards the goals set out in Deep Roots, Green Future. One of our five goals...
Committee for Green Foothills would like to commend Redwood City Councilmember Ian Bain for his recent op-ed, where he took a stand against Cargill’s plan to develop the salt ponds. In the San Mateo Journal article OP-ED: Salt ponds not zoned for housing (4/1/15) Bain said “I want it on record that I am not...
Have you heard the latest on the Redwood City salt ponds? After Cargill and developer DMB Associates spent years lobbying the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers, the EPA has stepped up and will take over the jurisdictional determination of the site. This is good news and our local representatives played...
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