If you have strolled up Broadway in Oakland, you may have noticed something in the past few years. The area previously dubbed “Auto Row” for its plentiful car dealerships is facing an identity crisis, as many dealerships have packed up and left.
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In May 2011, a chorus of organizations and individuals submitted comments on the scope of the yet-to-be-written Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the “Koch-Kawar New Farm Project.”
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Currently touring to promote their debut album, Songs From the Stoop, The Brothers Comatose have just been added to the Bluegrass for the Greenbelt line-up.
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Corinne Goodrich San Mateo County’s Affordable Housing Week, which culminated on Saturday, May 14, with a foreclosure resource fair in Daly City and a tour of affordable housing in downtown Redwood City, highlighted the ongoing critical need for affordable housing by all segments of our community. This remains true despite the economic downturn; two weeks
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San Francisco—Join Greenbelt Alliance on June 4th for foot-stomping, hot finger-pickin’ licks, and angelic harmonics at the 6th annual Bluegrass for the Greenbelt festival. This fun-filled day of bluegrass music features two stages and kid-friendly activities at the historic Dunsmuir-Hellman Estate in the Oakland Hills.
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Drawing inspiration from bluegrass, folk, country, R&B, reggae, and gospel, Bluegrass for the Greenbelt headliner Marley’s Ghost has recorded nine genre-defying albums in the last quarter century.
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Ruth Miller Whether you drive, walk, bike, bus or BART through the Bay Area, you probably have an opinion on how we should grow as a region. Blame it on $4 gas. Or climate change. Or SB 375, which requires California communities to develop and implement aggressive sustainability strategies. Or a more organized and informed
(Note: This is another in our series of expert blogs on TOD highlighting work and research that experts and advocates are doing in the field. Today we have Jennifer Gennari, Communications Director at Greenbelt Alliance) Individual actions — bicycling instead of driving, turning off lights, recycling — are often the first steps taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Opponents say project conflicts with general plan Jessica Lipsky Contra Costa County’s department of planning and conservation held a scoping session on Monday afternoon to address concerns about the New Farm Project, a rural mixed-use development in Tassajara Valley. New Farm has been on the county’s register since 2007 and has been hotly contested ever
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Our May volunteers of the month are Greenbelt Alliance outings leaders Bruce and Sandra Beyaert.
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When estate planning attorney Margaret Hand was diagnosed with cancer fourteen years ago, she realized how hard it was to make estate decisions after getting a scary diagnosis
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