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...
This Thursday, June 27 will be the last scheduled Planning Commission hearing this year on Stanford’s future development plans. We asked you back in May to email the Planning Commissioners. If you didn’t send an email then, please send one now to tell the Planning Commission to protect open space in the Stanford Foothills using...
The saga of Stanford’s proposal to expand its campus continues. This week, the County of Santa Clara announced that it was suspending talks with Stanford over the Development Agreement. However, it’s important to note that the General Use Permit (GUP) process is still ongoing. This means that we can still expect the approval of potentially huge new...
Good news! Planning staff for Santa Clara County have recommended protecting the Stanford Foothills from development for 99 years, and requiring a supermajority vote from the County Supervisors to modify that protection. If the County ultimately approves this, it would extend the current protection from development, which expires in 2025, through the end of the...
Stanford University has begun negotiations with the County of Santa Clara for a Development Agreement on community benefits that could be required as part of future campus expansion. This creates an opportunity to achieve long-sought protection for more than 2,000 acres of open space known as the Stanford foothills. Please sign Committee for Green Foothills’...
This action alert has closed. For more on protecting the Stanford GUP, please see this link. On Thursday, November 29, the County of Santa Clara is hosting its first community meeting to hear from the public about a potential Development Agreement between Stanford and the County. Come and tell the County that you want to...
Note: This alert is now closed. The Board of Supervisors has met and we will be publishing an updated post on this issue shortly. Thanks for all the many, many people who sent comments calling for transparency and a fair public process! On Tuesday, October 16, the Santa Clara County Supervisors will be deciding whether...
This action alert is now closed. We’ll be sure to updated you on the development of this issue. Stanford University is applying for a General Use Permit (GUP) from Santa Clara County that will include 2.275 million square feet of new development over the next 17 years. Currently, the Stanford foothills are protected by the...
In June 1973 the last seven miles of Interstate 280 opened with great fanfare. Stretching from Raymundo Drive in Woodside to the Eugene Doran Memorial Bridge that crosses the canyon of San Mateo Creek, this final link completed some 50 miles of highway that was designed to blend with nature (as much as a six-lane...
“We knew him as Wally,” wrote Committee for Green Foothills’ President Pauline Lord in a 1997 newsletter article remembering the celebrated teacher and author Wallace Stegner. A co-founder of Committee for Green Foothills and its first president, Stegner is a father to our organization whose writings are as relevant today as they were a half...
You are leaving the Green Foothills website to go to our Protect Coyote Valley website.
