On June 27, the Santa Clara County Planning Commission voted to recommend extending the current protection of the Stanford foothills for 99 years. Now the matter will be heard by the Board of Supervisors in the fall where we will ask that they make the protection permanent. Thanks to everyone who sent emails or came...
Vallemar Bluffs is the last remaining undeveloped blufftop in the Midcoast area of Moss Beach. In addition to its sweeping coastal views, rocky cliffs and erodible bluffs, the site supports environmentally sensitive Coastal Prairie Grasslands where four rare plants are found, including the endangered Coast Yellow Leptosiphon. There is an informal trail along the blufftops...
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...
As the Half Moon Bay City Council gathered for its first meeting of 2019, council chambers began to fill… and kept filling. Residents opposing Dunes Beach arrived by the dozen, many carrying homemade signs featuring the snowy plover. The spherical bird has been an emblem for the campaign against hotel and RV park development adjacent...
When Committee for Green Foothills was formed in 1962, land speculators, Chambers of Commerce, and eager elected officials had already set their sights squarely on the San Mateo coast. Spurred by California’s post-World War II building boom, and in keeping with the commonly held notion that development was inevitable, San Mateo County planners had created...
By Nancy Reyering, Committee for Green Foothills Board Member. Originally published May 2015. My husband and I lived in Woodside for 30 years before we understood that the little igloo of sticks at our property line was a woodrat nest. Discovering this and learning more about the behavior, skill, and value of this charming but...
At the recent State Lands Commission (SLC) meeting, Committee for Green Foothills and other environmental groups made the case for open space in the face of sea level rise on the San Francisco Bay, particularly along the Burlingame Baylands, where requests for proposals have attracted the interest of several hotel developers as well as environmental...
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