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The Committee is Watching... ...the long-awaited Devil's Slide Tunnel, for which
the final Environmental Impact Statement should be approved in coming weeks - despite the increased estimated cost and new projections that construction should start in 2003 or 2004. ...the Midcoast Community Council, which is reviewing the San Mateo County Local Coastal Program.
...the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority, for which land owners recently approved a huge increase in public funding. ...local political officials, who are participating in regular breakfast
meetings with CGF representatives and other local environmental advocates. ...thirteen volumes of Department of Fish and Game data on San Mateo County's coastal streams, now compiled and organized by
watershed in a publication by the Green Foothills Foundation. ...the San Mateo County Parks Foundation, which is helping raise the $3 million necessary to complete the purchase of Mirada Surf,
the area's last undeveloped bluff, for a community park at the south end of El Granada. ...Skyline Ridge, where we successfully argued for a reduction in
the scale and visibility of new facilities at Skylawn Memorial Park. ...Stevens Creek Canyon, where the Canyon Heights Academy proposes an inappropriate development that threatens wetlands,
the creek and open space in Cupertino. ...the Coastal San Mateo Stewardship Conference in April, which CGF co-sponsored to help encourage cooperative stewardship on the coast.
...Large Group Assembly facilities (LGAF) in Santa Clara County, where the Board of Supervisors is studying whether to allow these urban-scale developments outside of city limits.
...the League for Coastside Protection, which endorsed a number of environment-friendly candidates for local office and saw most of them elected. ...the Habitat Conservation Plan for Santa Clara County, which is
required mitigation for the development of Coyote Valley and the expansion of Highway 101 between San Jose and Morgan Hill. ...Santa Clara County, to ensure that the conservation easement
for the California Tiger Salamander is strong and provides adequate mitigation for the development of the Carnegie Foundation offices. ...Cellular communications towers throughout San Mateo County,
the visual impact of which the Committee continues to work to reduce. ...Peninsula Open Space Trust, which recently announced its purchase of the 3,681-acre Driscoll Ranch and an innovative
agreement that gives the seller a lifetime right for grazing, pedestrian and equestrian activities on the Skyline property. ...the Bay Area Open Space Council, a group of public and
nonprofit organizations providing regional leadership for protection of local open space, which the Committee just joined. ...Pescadero Marsh, where some propose to alleviate flooding
problems by dredging Butano Creek, thus destroying aquatic habitat and species. ...the Community Resource Group, a group of professionals and citizens (including CGF's own Denice Dade and Mary Davey)
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...the eastern foothills in southern Santa Clara County, where the proposed Patrick Ranch Vintage
Estates would place an 18-home subdivision on exposed ridgelines.
