Next Tuesday, September 23, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors will decide whether to overturn decades of settled land use policy and allow a rural landowner to subdivide his property into more than the allowed number of lots. Please join me and ask the board to deny this application. (If you think you’ve heard...
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Measure Q: Another Open Space Ballot Measure
While we celebrate the recent victory of Measure AA, we’re gearing up for the next ballot measure to fund local open space. YES on Measure Q is well underway, and we are doing everything we can to get it passed. On November 4, voters in southern Santa Clara County (including the cities of San Jose, Milpitas,...
CGF in the News: Protecting our Hillsides
Committee for Green Foothills’ Advocate Julie Hutcheson was quoted in a recent article on the Young Ranch development project being proposed by YCS Investments. In the article Julie explains that: “this just isn’t the type of development we want anymore,” says Julie Hutcheson, an advocate for Committee for Green Foothills, another group protesting Young Ranch. “It depends...
