Morgan Hill puts its City Council meetings online, so I wanted to point to two items where we were involved. We announced our Nov. 7th event on the South Valley in Gilroy: City of Morgan Hll City Council Meeting 10-7-2009 Part 1 from Larry Talbot on Vimeo. (You need to let it buffer for a...
Category: Farmland
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A great time on the Santa Clara County Farm Tour
Just reporting in that CGF’s Farm Tour went really well on Saturday. Around 40 people attended, we went to four locations (an orchard with cherry tastings, an organic vegetable farm, a cattle ranch, and winery), had lots of great food, and heard the farmers’ concerns. Jan Garrod, president of the Santa Clara County Farm Bureau,...
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CGF is everywhere during Earth Week
CGF has four tabling events for Earth Week, which I think might be a CGF record for the most appearances in a few days. I manned one table at Full Circle Farm, a community effort to bring farming back to Sunnyvale on an 11-acre parcel that is just getting going. This type of community farming...
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Some good legal news in California about global warming, air pollution, and maybe about buying local food
Both of these news items are via Warming Law, a blog focusing on legal issues related to climate change. California Attorney General Jerry Brown has settled a CEQA/global warming lawsuit against San Bernardino County (settlement here). This is relevant to Coyote Valley, where the EIR used the same legal theory as San Bernardino to avoid...
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Comments submitted to LAFCO about Morgan Hill expansion and Coyote Valley
(Normally I don’t write out my speaker comments in advance, preferring a more natural speaking style and the ability to react to other commenters and new information. Yesterday though, I wrote out my comments to the Santa Clara County LAFCO regarding the unwarranted Morgan Hill USA expansion. The comments are below (although I also adlibbed...
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Mercury News publishes CGF Op-Ed on Coyote Valley
I’m happy to report that the Mercury News has published the Op-Ed I wrote on behalf of CGF regarding why developing Coyote Valley is an environmental disaster. The link to the Mercury News online version is here, and is reproduced here on our website. By the way, the print edition of the article mentions my...
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Comments on the LAFCO ag mitigation guidelines
We submitted the following comments -Brian————– Dear LAFCo Commissioners; Per the message below, the Committee for Green Foothills supports the LAFCo staff proposal on agricultural mitigation guidelines. We additionally support the Greenbelt Alliance position: That no less than one acre of farmland be protected for every acre paved over. That the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Act definition of...