1968 • Skyline Boulevard designated "Scenic Highway" 1969 • Japanese market threatens skyline with logging 1973 • CGF helps secure strict logging ordinances in San Mateo County 1994 • Timber Harvest Buffer Zone battle won 1998 • Timber Harvest Buffer Zone challenge denied 2000 • Skyline viewshed protected from hillside convent 2002 • Tree-cutters caught 2005 • Rhys Vineyard Environmental Impact Settlement

1962 • Plans emerge for developing urban metropolis on the coast 1972 • Devil’s Slide Bypass struggle begins 1985 • Coastal Commission rejects proposed multi-lane freeway 1986 • Environmental organizations sue over proposed Devil’s Slide Bypass 1988 • CGF wins lawsuit 1996 • Measure T, the Devil’s Slide Tunnel Initiative, wins by a landslide 2000 • CGF joins with unusual allies to get tunnel built 2002 • Tunnel process moves ahead 2004 • Light at the end of the Devil’s Slide Tunnel [previous] | [next]

2005 • Devil’s Slide Tunnel breaks ground 2006 • Devil’s Slide Tunnel 2007 • Devil’s Slide Tunnel [previous] | [next]

1961 • CGF activists help found Save the Bay 1965 • Environmentalists join forces to create BCDC

1981 • ROLM requests new plant in Coyote Valley 1983 • CGF works to protect agriculture in Coyote Valley 2000 • Environmentalists unite to keep Cisco out of Coyote Valley 2000 • Group forms to save Coyote Ridge 2001 • San Jose city officials declare PLAN referendum invalid 2002 • Economic downturn slows Cisco project 2002 • Habitat Conservation Planning begins 2004 • San Jose pushes forward Coyote Valley development 2007 • Coyote Valley

1996 • Lion's Gate Reserve slated for 16,000 acres

1995 • Bear Creek Redwoods preserved 1995 • CGF works to protect public hiking trails in Los Gatos 2007 • San Jose Water Company Logging Proposal

1984 • Cascade Ranch struggle begins 1989 • Cascade Ranch Fitness Center and Campground approved 1989 • Environmental groups sue over Cascade Ranch approval 1999 • Cascade Ranch Fitness Center is dead

1996 • Bed and breakfast at Pigeon Point approved 2000 • Bed and breakfast at Pigeon Point closes before it opens

2001 • Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors upholds hillside zoning 2005 • Monster Mansion Stopped

1980 • CGF wins suit to prevent expansion of San Jose’s urban services area 1994 • CGF helps increase creek setbacks in San Jose 1995 • San Jose Urban Growth Boundary enacted 2000 • San Jose Greenline enforced 2004 • McKean Road Sports Complex 2006 • Almaden playing fields 2006 • Environmental Issue Prominence in San Jose Election 2007 • San Jose/Almaden Litigation 2007 • Developer Control Over Environmental Review [previous] | [next]

2007 • Duckett Lane Streamside Development 2007 • Evergreen Development Project 2007 • San Jose General Plan Update 2007 • San Jose Sunshine Reform Task Force [previous] | [next]

1962 • Committee for Green Foothills helps stop Palo Alto’s planned expansion to Skyline Boulevard 1966 • CGF pressures City of Palo Alto to review its General Plan 1968 • CGF helps create park at Palo Alto Baylands 1969 • Coyote Hill industrialization 1969 • Foothills protected from development 1969 • Palo Alto creates minimum zoning in foothills 1973 • Committee works with Xerox to protect open space as part of development [previous] | [next]

1977 • CGF helps bring Farmer’s Market to Palo Alto 1992 • Arastra property added to Arastradero Open Space Preserve 1996 • Measure R (to limit growth in Palo Alto) defeated 2002 • Riparian Corridor ordinance upheld [previous] | [next]

1959 • Factories kept out of Foothills 1971 • Stanford Land Use / Policy Plan issued 1982 • CGF gets Linear Collider project revised 1983 • Stanford West Housing Project withdrawn 1985 • Stanford Foothills protected from Reagan Library 1998 • CGF fights Measure M 1999 • Carnegie Foundation proposes huge development in the foothills 1999 • Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors begins work on General Use Permit and Community Plan for Stanford University [previous] | [next]

2000 • County enacts first growth control measures for Stanford 2001 • Committee for Green Foothills fights to uphold Santa Clara County General Plan 2001 • Enforcement of Stanford GUP and Community Plan begins 2001 • Environmental report card shows mixed grades 2002 • New Academic Growth Boundary upheld 2002 • New trails off to slow start 2003 • Supervisors disappoint with zoning for Stanford foothills 2003 • Stanford drags feet on required trails [previous] | [next]

2004 • CGF calls environmental report for Stanford trail inadequate 2006 • Stanford Trails 2007 • Stanford Shopping Center/Medical Center Expansion 2007 • Stanford Trail Litigation [previous] | [next]

1970 • Battle to protect Edgewood Park begins 1991 • Golf course threatens Edgewood Park 1993 • Edgewood Park established as natural preserve 2003 • Alternative project would underground transmission lines 2004 • Edgewood, watershed, San Bruno Mountain spared from huge power lines

1962 • Plans emerge for developing urban metropolis on the coast 1972 • New England Fishing Village proposed for Pillar Point Harbor 1990 • Apanolio Canyon saved from landfill 1992 • Measure D (Cassinelli Ranch) defeated 1993 • Over pumping of Pillar Point Marsh halted 2002 • Committee protests rip-rap, parking on agricultural land 2002 • CGF speaks out against Wavecrest development 2004 • Endangered frog triggers environmental review at Wavecrest [previous] | [next]

2007 • Pilarcitos Creek Park 2007 • Wavecrest [previous] | [next]

1972 • CGF supports legislation to acquire Montara State Beach 2002 • Rancho Corral de Tierra is saved

1983 • CGF helps defeat South Shores Plan, protecting baylands 1998 • POST purchases Bair Island wetlands

1999 • Golf courses prevented on watershed lands 2005 • PG&E grants $1.5 million to GGNRA

1979 • Committee protests proposed subdivision west of Gilroy 1993 • Hot springs resort complex blocked in Gilroy foothills 1993 • Supervisors put a halt to Sargent Ranch proposal in south Gilroy 1995 • Garlic Country USA battle 2002 • Ranchlands protected from development 2007 • Castro Valley Ranch Subdivision

1972 • Committee for Green Foothills leads funding of Santa Clara County Fund for Parks 1985 • Increase in hillside density denied 1985 • CGF blocks private use of parklands 1994 • Santa Clara County approves new General Plan 2002 • Conservation Council has unified voice 2002 • Countywide policies strengthened 2002 • CGF works to protect rural areas of the County [previous] | [next]

2002 • Successful measure will provide funds for open space 2002 • Precedent-setting proposal denied 2002 • Santa Clara County’s new Land Use Work Plan includes environmental protections 2004 • Santa Clara County conducting secret negotiations 2004 • Water District focuses on restoration in poor communities 2005 • Open Space Authority Funding 2005 • Ending secret developer access to government documents 2005 • Countywide Habitat Conservation Plan [previous] | [next]

2005 • Vintage Estates 2006 • Clean Safe Creeks 2006 • CGF Housing Policy 2006 • Impervious Surfaces 2006 • CGF supports Santa Clara County Measure A 2006 • Funding Santa Clara County Parks 2006 • Santa Clara County Viewshed Ordinance 2006 • Williamson Act in Santa Clara County 2007 • LAFCO Agricultural Mitigation Guidelines [previous] | [next]

2007 • Santa Clara County Habitat Conservation Plan 2007 • Resource Management Protections [previous] | [next]

2002 • Santa Clara County LAFCO upholds urban boundaries and denies sprawl 2004 • Landowners sneak through illegal golf course 2004 • Farmland spared in Morgan Hill 2006 • Protecting Unregulated Wetlands 2007 • Watsonville Road Redesignation

2000 • Group forms to save Coyote Ridge

2002 • County purchases half of blufftop jewel 2003 • Mirada Surf purchase complete

1972 • Coastal Initiative passes 1980 • Coastal Plan adopted by San Mateo County Board of Supervisors 1986 • Measure A for coastal preservation wins by 62% vote 2000 • CGF supports realignment of Marine Sanctuaries 2001 • League forms to elect environmentalists on Coast 2001 • Watershed study released 2003 • Coastal Commission independence strengthened 2003 • Monster homes threaten the San Mateo County Coast [previous] | [next]

2003 • Agricultural Summit addresses water demands 2004 • Dump kept off San Mateo Coast 2005 • Mid-Coast LCP Update 2006 • Mid-Coast Local Coastal Plan Update [previous] | [next]

2002 • Solutions for Marsh sought 1993 • Coastal access opened 2006 • CGF opposes logging Camp Jones Gulch 2007 • YMCA Jones Gulch

2002 • Large development in oak woodlands denied by Planning Commission 2003 • Horse Park activities reined in 2004 • 250 people celebrate Nature's Inspirations

2002 • Public Open Space saved from sale

1998 • St. Joseph’s Seminary in Cupertino slated for development 2002 • 325 people celebrate CGF’s 40th anniversary 2002 • Work to regulate quarry begins 2004 • Replanting to cover quarry’s ridgeline scar 2007 • Hanson Quarry

2002 • Developers target eastern foothills 2006 • Milpitas Urban Growth Boundary

1972 • Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District created 1976 • CGF provides leadership to expand open space district 1998 • Voters approve expansion of Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District to coast 2002 • Expansion of Open Space District moves forward 2003 • MROSD Directors vote to apply to LAFCO for coastal expansion 2004 • Open Space District expands to coast! 2007 • AB 697

1962 • Committee for Green Foothills founded 1965 • Redwood Road Committee forms 1976 • Coastal Act of 1976 is approved 2002 • SB 497 closes lot line loopholes 2002 • Prop 40 funds local environmental projects 2003 • E-activists speak up for open space 2004 • CGF blogs! 2006 • Defeating Proposition 90

1960 • CalTrans proposes Highway Master Plan for San Mateo County 1964 • Proposed Willow Road freeway rejected 1968 • Local Agency Formation Commission assigns unincorporated lands 1969 • Committee for Green Foothills helps prevent damming of Pescadero Creek 1972 • San Mateo County wins “Charter for Parks Program” 1999 • CGF Advocate Lennie Roberts heralded as “Urban Legend” 2001 • CGF works to protect water quality [previous] | [next]

2004 • County begins Local Coastal Plan update 2004 • Voters reauthorize transportation tax 2004 • County parks reopen 2005 • CGF opposes Big Creek Lumber 2005 • Sales tax enabling legislation signed 2006 • GGNRA begins update of General Management Plan 2006 • CGF Housing Policy 2006 • Counties determine Timber Harvesting [previous] | [next]

2006 • CGF supports San Mateo County Measure A [previous] | [next]

2005 • CGF opposes Bayfront Park ball fields 2006 • CGF helps defeat Bayfront Park ball fields

2006 • CGF helps defeat Guadalupe Quarry

2006 • CGF helps defeat Rockaway Quarry