Today’s (2/12/16) addition of the Silicon Valley Business Journal features two articles on sprawl in southern Santa Clara County, and both quote our Advocate Julie Hutcheson. In one article, the cover story, Sprawling southward: A clash of values in South County: High prices in northern Silicon Valley are driving plans to build on rural farmland in Morgan...
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...
Legislative Advocate Julie Hutcheson has been engaged in the North Gilroy Neighborhood Districts proposal, a 721-acre housing and commercial project that could increase Gilroy’s population by 26%. The developer is requesting an amendment to the city’s Urban Service Area (USA). A city’s USA designates land that is served by urban services (police, fire, water and...
By: Julie Hutcheson, Legislative Advocate Most people have never heard of a Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo). Neither, you might be surprised to find out, have many of our local elected officials. Yet 57 of California’s 58 counties have one, and Santa Clara County is no exception. Santa Clara’s LAFCo has been one of the...
The Gilroy Dispatch discusses a “nebulous” idea for a tribal casino right near the Santa Clara/San Benito County border, south of Gilroy. This proposal seems to be an extension of the “big box” retail concept favored by Gilroy developers – extremely large buildings and parking lots on undeveloped land, designed to pull in traffic from...
For years, the City of Gilroy has had an unfortunate obsession with promoting “big-box” retailing, placing massive discount outlets near the outskirts of town in order to attract retail customers from around the Bay Area. Besides using up open space and destroying farmland in the last stronghold for agriculture in Santa Clara County, this policy...
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