Santa Clara County hillsides are at risk. YCS Investments is at it again with yet another proposal to develop Young Ranch. Send a comment letter on the Young Ranch residential project’s Draft Environmental Impact Report by Sunday, April 9. This project threatens the integrity of San Jose’s greenbelt by setting an alarming precedent of allowing...
Our Legislative Advocate Alice Kaufman was in the news again this week. This time she was in Redwood City advocating that city planning commissioners protect the hillsides. She also spoke up for creeks when a commissioner proposed that property lots near creeks (which in many cases are on flat land but designated “hillside” due to...
Now that Alice told you about her epic win speaking up for local parkland, I’d like to share my favorite epic win from 2014. As you read this, I hope you’ll join me and make a tax-deductible year-end gift of $250, $100, or $50 today. If you donate before 12/31, your donation will be matched...
Last week I sent an action alert asking you to urge the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors to protect our hillsides. Good news! On Monday, I got word that the property owner had withdrawn his application for an amendment to the General Plan. This means that if the landowner wants to submit a future...
Next Tuesday, September 23, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors will decide whether to overturn decades of settled land use policy and allow a rural landowner to subdivide his property into more than the allowed number of lots. Please join me and ask the board to deny this application. (If you think you’ve heard...
Committee for Green Foothills’ Advocate Julie Hutcheson was quoted in a recent article on the Young Ranch development project being proposed by YCS Investments. In the article Julie explains that: “this just isn’t the type of development we want anymore,” says Julie Hutcheson, an advocate for Committee for Green Foothills, another group protesting Young Ranch. “It depends...
Update (1/23/14): The Board of Supervisors have decided to hold off on making a decision on the General Plan amendment application for the Uvas Road property. The application will be discussed at a future meeting, date TBD. We will keep everyone posted as we get more information. From an action alert sent December 6, 2013:...
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