Gilroy City Councilmembers need to hear from you about the location of the High Speed Rail (HSR) station in Gilroy. Please tell the Council to keep the station downtown, not put it out in the open space of the Agricultural Preserve. What You Can Do Join me and members of Gilroy Growing Smarter at...
In 2012 Gilroy’s city councilmembers chose their downtown as the preferred location for a high-speed rail (HSR) station. The community strongly supported this decision, as did Committee for Green Foothills, because it avoided the alternative location—accompanied by new urban growth —in the Agricultural Preserve to the east of the shopping outlets. Locating the station in...
We’re keeping an eye on Gilroy, where the 2040 General Plan update process will resume now that Measure H, the urban growth boundary initiative, was resoundingly passed by the voters of Gilroy. The city council directed staff to reevaluate the land use alternatives and reconvene the General Plan Advisory Committee to consider these alternatives. At...
Update: the City Council meeting was postponed from May 15 to June 5. This post has been edited to reflect the new meeting date. Despite voters in Gilroy decisively passing Measure H, the Urban Growth Boundary initiative, Gilroy farmland is once again at risk. Send a comment letter to the Gilroy City Council using the...
On Monday, December 7, Gilroy city councilmembers voted to move forward with a proposal to expand the city’s Urban Service Area (USA) and bring 721 acres into the city for development. Committee for Green Foothills’ advocate Julie Hutcheson has been speaking up against this proposal and was quoted in a recent Silicon Valley Business Journal...
Dear Friends, Please join me in urging Gilroy City Councilmembers to deny a proposal that could allow for the development of 721 acres of open space by Monday, December 7. What You Can Do Email Gilroy City Councilmembers by Monday, December 7 ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]) and ask them to deny...
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