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The Committee is  Watching...

Committee for Green Foothills' Legislative  Advocates and volunteers juggle multiple projects to protect the environment  in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.

In addition to those projects described in this issue's articles, the Committee is  watching:

... the city of San Jose, which has been stalling  development of a county-wide Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) but has indicated  recently that it may finally move forward.

 ... Cindy Rubin and Ciddy Wordell, who are  working hard as co-chairs for our fall gala event, Nature's  Inspirations.

 ... El Granada, where, thanks to funding  from the California Coastal Conservancy, the San Mateo County Parks Division  has started the planning for the California Coastal Trail segment on the  blufftop portion of the now protected 49-acre parcel known as Mirada  Surf.

 ... the Woodside-Atherton Garden Club, which  recently honored CGF's Legislative Advocate extraordinaire Lennie  Roberts with its 2004 Zone Conservation Certificate of Acknowledgement  "in appreciation of her constant surveillance and informed attention to  the issues involved in the preservation and conservation of our land."

 ... the County of Santa Clara, which - at  the urging of Supervisor  Liz Kniss - is considering incorporation of a General Plan update  fee with all its development permit approvals, so that development projects  in the County, which change land use and ultimately require the General  Plan to be updated, pay their fair share of costs.

 ... Palo Alto's CityBeat cable TV magazine,  which will feature CGF as part of their July issue.

 ... Gov. Schwarzenegger's new  appointments to the Coastal  Commission and other environmental agencies, to see whether these  appointees are supporting the mandates of their agencies to protect and  manage our natural resources.

 ... Elaine French, Priscilla Hexter, Peter LaTourrette  and Peter Lipman, who are serving as the jurors for the Nature's  Inspirations art exhibition on October 30.

 ... the Wavecrest site in Half Moon Bay,  where developers continue their quest to build on this wetland habitat  despite evidence of its importance  for migratory birds and clearly-better locations for development elsewhere.

 ... local proposed routes for California's  high-speed rail to connect the north and south of the state with a fast  train system; proposed alignments threaten Henry Coe State Park, open  space around Mt. Hamilton, wetlands and protected wildlife areas.

 ... House Resources Committee Chairman Richard  Pombo, R-Tracy, whose efforts to weaken the Endangered Species Act  have held up the listing of the Central California population of the California  tiger salamander as threatened - a listing that would have ramifications  for property owners throughout the Central Valley as well as on the Peninsula.

 ... the update process for the MidCoast  Local Coastal Plan, an important document guiding protection of the  coastal zone; the San Mateo County Planning Commission will continue to  hold hearings on this issue - and receive public input, including extensive  comments from CGF - through 2004.

 ... the City of Morgan Hill, which may be  on the verge of approving the Institute  Golf Course project despite environmental concerns and potential violations  of the Endangered Species Act; last-minute meetings may determine whether  additional mitigations will fix the environmental damage.


Published July 2004 in Green  Footnotes.

Page last updated July 13, 2004 .

 

 

      

Copyright 2001 Committee for Green Foothills

Burrowing owl photo by Peter LaTourrette / www.birdphotography.com.