Today I’d like to introduce you to Bill and Kathy Korbholz, two more #PeopleWeLove who are standing up to protect local nature. Join them and make your year-end gift to Committee for Green Foothills today. Residents of Redwood City, Bill and Kathy were a key part of the team that ensured Edgewood Park would become one...
by Alice Kaufman, Legislative Advocate In a time when our region is worrying about protecting homes and businesses from rising seas, one would think that cities would not want to add to the amount of development in the path of sea level rise. But in Redwood City, the Inner Harbor Specific Plan would change the...
Committee for Green Foothills would like to commend Redwood City Councilmember Ian Bain for his recent op-ed, where he took a stand against Cargill’s plan to develop the salt ponds. In the San Mateo Journal article OP-ED: Salt ponds not zoned for housing (4/1/15) Bain said “I want it on record that I am not...
Have you heard the latest on the Redwood City salt ponds? After Cargill and developer DMB Associates spent years lobbying the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers, the EPA has stepped up and will take over the jurisdictional determination of the site. This is good news and our local representatives played...
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...
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