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,...
On February 26, over 70 people, including local elected officials, attended Committee for Green Foothills’ Flooded Out: Development in the path of sea level rise event at the Redwood City Public Library. The event featured presentations by Jeremy Lowe of the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI), Dan Ponti of Redwood City Neighbors United (RCNU), and...
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...
The Harbor View project is wrong for Redwood City and needs to be revised. That’s the message the Redwood City City Council sent to Jay Paul, the Harbor View developer, at the February 11 City Council meeting. It is also the message over 350 of you made to the Council via emails and public comment...
On Monday, February 11, the Redwood City City Council will hold a study session on the Harbor View project — four seven-story office towers for 4,500 employees on the former Malibu Grand Prix and Lyngso site. This project would worsen the housing crisis and put a massive new development in the path of sea level...
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...
We’re thrilled to be honoring Joan Baez at Nature’s Inspiration on September 24 at Coyote Ranch. Purchase your tickets today. Local: Palo Alto Roots Congratulations to legendary folk singer and activist Joan Baez for being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame April 7. We happen to know the humble seeds of her...
Last November, Redwood City announced that the Inner Harbor Specific Plan will be put on hold indefinitely. This plan would have changed Redwood City’s zoning and General Plan to allow over 1 million square feet of office space in four 9-story buildings out by the Bay, plus dredging of a shallow-water wetland habitat to create...
With just hours left in the year, I want to tell you how proud I am of what we accomplished together in 2016. As I ring in the New Year tonight, I’ll give my husband and daughter a kiss and then raise a glass to you. You are the only reason local open space has a...
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