DIY Hike: Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve: Labyrinths
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March 2011
Napa Pipe earns green endorsement
James Noonan As the fight over the proposed 2,580-home development at Napa Pipe rages on, a Bay Area conservation group has thrown its weight behind the project. Last week, the Greenbelt Alliance — an environmental group that has been advocating for open spaces in the nine-county Bay Area for more than half a century —
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Vibrant Living with the Chang Family
Five years ago, Anthony Chang and his wife, Wendy Wong, decided to intentionally change the way they were living.
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New Partners in Planning San Jose
Like many big cities, San Jose has distinct neighborhoods where generations of families have made their homes. That’s what attracts Rebecca Gallardo, who was born and raised in East San Jose, to stay.
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DIY Hike: Marin Headlands: Golden Gate Views from Above, Below
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Greenbelt Alliance backs Napa Pipe plan
Jenna V. Loceff NAPA – Napa Pipe, the 2,580-unit proposed mixed-use development in the county of Napa, has gained the support of Greenbelt Alliance, a group that focuses on smart growth in the nine-county Bay Area. The project is in a comment period for its supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Report and hearings on the EIR
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Bay Area Governments Begin Developing Regional Smart Growth Plan
Aaron Bialick Local governments in the Bay Area have begun a coordinated regional effort to shift toward more sustainable urban planning mandated by the state’s landmark anti-sprawl bill, SB 375, which set ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and called for better integration of land use and transportation planning. Last week, the Metropolitan
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Tassajara Valley according to Tom Koch
Roz Rogoff In November I interviewed Sid Corrie about his cemetery project in Tassajara Valley. I said I would interview Tom Koch about the New Farm project next. Koch had just been granted permission by County Supervisors to submit an EIR. Even though that seemed like a good story, I wanted to wait and see
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You Choose Bay Area: New online planning tool offers ways to envision growth, shape policies
Susan Mernit By 2035 there will be an estimated 1.2 million new jobs and 900,000 new households within the Bay Area. Where will all of these people live? Where will the new housing be built? How will people get around? Will the air we breathe and the water we drink be clean? Will we still
Greenbelt Alliance urges cities, residents to envision together a sustainable Bay Area
On Friday, regional planning agencies will release the first draft of a plan that will impact housing and transportation for the next two decades. Today, to help residents understand what is at stake, Greenbelt Alliance and partners are launching YouChoose Bay Area, an initiative to encourage participation in determining where and how the region builds.
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Study: Marin workers can’t pay local rents
Anna McCarthy In traffic, it used to take Anelyn Gallego anywhere from two to three hours one way to drive from Fairfield, where she lived, to work in Corte Madera. She spent a year enduring the commute. Then in Sept. 2010, she and her daughter moved into a new affordable-housing complex located right down the
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