CGF Environmental Forum

Land use planning and the budget: How environmentalism affects budgets in Santa Clara County and elsewhere
Thursday, October 9, 2003 • 7- 9 pm
Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium, Palo Alto
Directions

This event is over, but a videotape is available in the Acterra Environmental Library.

Budget crises are affecting all levels of government. Our panel will examine how environmental practices -- specifically land use planning -- affects budgets in the long run. Land use planning can even affect land use budgets: to balance its budget, Santa Clara County may cut Planning Department staff.

Professor Meg Caldwell, Director of the Stanford Law School Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program, will moderate a panel discussion under the spotlight of the current fiscal crisis. Panelists include David K. Ginsborg, Director of Special Programs and External Affairs, Santa Clara County Office of the Assessor; Janet Stone, Livable Communities Director, Greenbelt Alliance; environmental attorney Terry Trumbull; and Fred Goldvary of Santa Clara University.

The event is free and open to the public; seating is available on a first-come basis. Refreshments will be served.

This forum, the second in a series, is cosponsored by Greenbelt Alliance and Santa Clara Valley Audubon, and has been made possible in part by a grant from the Hugh Stuart Center Charitable Trust.

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Directions:
Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium
1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto

From highway 101, exit Embaracero Road heading west, toward the Stanford campus and Palo Alto. Head west on Embarcadero for a little over a mile, then turn right on Newell and look for the Art Center driveway on your right.