Thank you for fighting with us in 2017. Whether you made a donation, responded to an action alert, spoke at a meeting, went for a hike, or shared our news with a friend, you were part of the fight for local nature. Thank you. Thanks to you and our community, we celebrated some important wins...
Tag: High speed rail
Speak up for Smart Growth in Gilroy
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...
Location For Gilroy Rail Station Up For Grabs, Farmland Again At Risk.
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...
Action Alert: Reaffirm Downtown as Preferred HSR Station Location
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...