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The Committee is watching... California Department of Forestry — for approving a timber harvesting permit that allows hauling of logs on the Butano Fire Trail through Butano State Park, spurring CGF to file a Public Records Act requesting disclosure of the process State Parks followed in giving permission to use a park road for private commercial purposes Hanson Permanente Quarry — for continuing to leave rock and delay natural recovery after promising it would finish depositing a rock waste scar on a prominent ridge in summer 2005 Institute Golf Course — for constructing a golf course illegally and still failing to comply with the conditions of an after-the-fact permit it received from Morgan Hill Rockaway Quarry in Pacifica — where extensive wetlands and important habitat for the California red-legged frog and San Francisco garter snake are threatened by development San Mateo County Planning — now reviewing a controversial proposal adjacent to the Pillar Point Marsh, called Big Wave, that would allow a large office park and housing for developmentally delayed adults on prime agricultural soils, wetlands, and within the FEMA 100 year flood and tsunami zones San Jose City Council Riparian Policy — now under attack as the City wavers on enforcing its 100-foot riparian setback and considers whether to carve one more exception into the rule Santa Clara County — for failure to regulate quarries located in the County and being placed on probation by the state government and threatened with the loss of regulatory control over its quarries Stanford University — for continuing to build on campus while it fails to comply with the General Use Permit condition requiring it to build the S-1 Trail near Page Mill Road The Committee Applauds… April Vargas, CGF Board Vice President and long-time resident of the San Mateo Coast — for her appointment as an alternate to the California Coastal Commission in recognition of her leadership in protecting the coastline Adrienne Tissier, San Mateo County Supervisor — for creating a convenient way to properly dispose of pharmaceuticals, reducing the amount of medicines being flushed down countless drains and protecting our water courses from contamination Jerry Hill and Rich Gordon, San Mateo County Supervisors — for sponsoring an anti-smoking ordinance in County parks and on beaches and trails, creating a healthier environment for wildlife and park users and eliminating ubiquitous cigarette butts in our parks MidPeninsula Regional Open Space District — for negotiating a land-swap agreement with Hanson Permanente that resulted in MidPen receiving much more land for protection than the degraded land it swapped Santa Clara County Creeks Coalition — for working with the Water District and the Watershed Management Initiative on watershed health and uniting stream advocacy groups across the County Santa Clara Valley Water District - for sponsoring and pro-viding staff support for a workshop on preventing unnatural erosion in the County, a workshop that CGF helped develop (much still needs to be done!). Published Spring 2007 in Green Footnotes. Page last updated July 2, 2007. |
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