Please email the San Jose City Council to say thank you! In August, the City of San Jose presented their draft Environmental Sustainability Plan (ESP) to the City Council. Several environmental groups, including Committee for Green Foothills, urged the City to expand the scope of the ESP to include recognition of the benefits provided by...
We need your help to speak up for open space and sustainability, in Coyote Valley and elsewhere in San Jose. On Monday, August 21, San Jose City Councilmembers will hold a study session on the draft Environmental Sustainability Plan (ESP). Please join us in urging city councilmembers to ensure the ESP includes preservation of open space. ...
Check out Megan’s Letter to the Editor published in Sunday’s Mercury News: I recently came across a quote from a 1981 article we published in response to a development threat in Coyote Valley that was fought back: “We recommend that the city (of San Jose) work with industrial representatives to study Edenvale and other redevelopment...
Deb joined the Leadership Academy to improve her understanding of the political process and how city staff and agencies interact with nonprofits. She feels the Leadership Academy is influencing her daily work to create an urban open space park in Coyote Meadows. For Deb, the most powerful part of the program was creating her own mission and vision statement to keep her focused on why she does what she does and how she goes about doing it.
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 Tuesday March 7, the San Jose City Council voted to prioritize working on bird-safe design guidelines for buildings near creeks. (See our previous post on this issue for details.) Now, City staff will begin work on studying this issue over the coming year, and will bring their recommendations to the City Council when this...
Update: The San Jose City Council voted to prioritize bird-safe design for buildings near creeks. Five votes were needed to prioritize this issue and it ended up getting six. Thank you to all those who sent an email to the City Council! On March 7 (note: the meeting has been rescheduled, it was previously scheduled...
With just hours left in the year, I want to tell you how proud I am of what we accomplished together in 2016. As I ring in the New Year tonight, I’ll give my husband and daughter a kiss and then raise a glass to you. You are the only reason local open space has a...
Dear Friends, As I look back on 2016, I am in awe by all that we have accomplished together. The good work you make possible never ceases to amaze me. Let’s take pause to celebrate the many wins for local open space that you made possible in 2016: Gilroy: Citizen-led Measure H, urban growth boundary...
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...
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