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...
Santa Clara County hillsides are at risk. YCS Investments is at it again with yet another proposal to develop Young Ranch. Send a comment letter on the Young Ranch residential project’s Draft Environmental Impact Report by Sunday, April 9. This project threatens the integrity of San Jose’s greenbelt by setting an alarming precedent of allowing...
On October 17, an over-capacity crowd filled the meeting room and spilled over into an adjacent room at the Southside Community Center for a community scoping meeting called by San Jose City staff to discuss the Panattoni project being proposed in Coyote Valley. City planners and representatives of the Panattoni company described the project and...
Earlier this week our very own Legislative Advocate, Julie Hutcheson, was quoted in the Morgan Hill Times. The article, SEQ Mired in Stalemate: Council vote likely not enough to gain key approvals for ag preservation, land use plan (11/12/14) by Michael Moore, discusses the City of Morgan Hill’s plan to annex farmland in the Southeast Quadrant (SEQ)....
Tomorrow, May 20, the City of Santa Clara’s Parks Commission will consider whether to recommend development of artificial turf soccer fields at Ulistac Natural Area. Ulistac is an environmental treasure, the last significant piece of native habitat in the Santa Clara area and the proud result of thousands of hours of volunteer restoration effort. Please...
From the article: Add the Growth Pocket: Southeast quadrant has to be addressed and included in the City’s General Plan process By Michael Moore in the Morgan Hill Times on 2/27/14 A Santa Clara County commission tasked with approving or denying the City of Morgan Hill’s Southeast Quadrant annexation issued a blistering critique of the...
By Julie Hutcheson Responses to the long awaited Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for Morgan Hill’s Southeast Quadrant (SEQ) Plan expose what Committee for Green Foothills has been saying all along – the plan is indefensible. Our 20-page comment letter is one of many pointing out the major flaws in the City of Morgan Hill’s EIR...
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