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Photo: Galen Rowell/Mountain Light
Greenbelt Alliance At a Glance
Since 1958, Greenbelt Alliance has been protecting the Bay Area's greenbelt of natural areas and farms, and making the region's cities better places to live.
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Photo: Galen Rowell/Mountain Light
Our Vision
In our vision, the Bay Area remains one of the country’s most desirable places to live, work, and visit. Our cities and towns have attractive, walkable neighborhoods with a vibrant mix of homes, shops, restaurants, and offices. The Bay Area’s communities are linked by buses, trains, and bike paths, and are bounded by a protected greenbelt of rolling hills, productive farmlands, lush watersheds, and plentiful parks.
Our Work
Protecting Open Spaces
- Helping cities and counties adopt policies to prepare for future growth while preserving the greenbelt.
- Stopping wasteful sprawl development from paving farmland, worsening traffic and air pollution, and contributing to climate change.
Creating Vibrant Places
- Endorsing development projects within existing cities, close to shops, jobs, and transit, with homes for people of all income levels.
- Advocating for policies that create walkable neighborhoods with homes people can afford, where they can walk, bike, and take transit easily and safely.
Getting People Involved
- Educating and mobilizing local residents to give them a voice in choosing how their communities grow.
- Publishing award-winning research, providing the region's leaders with the strategies they need to accommodate growth while protecting the greenbelt.
- Leading hikes, bike rides, farm tours, and urban walks for hundreds of Bay Area residents every year through our Greenbelt Outings and Livable Communities Outreach programs.
Our History of Success
For 50 years, we have worked with local communities and partner groups to help secure long-term protection for more than 1.1 million acres of open space, establish urban growth boundaries around 25 cities and five counties, and endorse plans to create more than 48,000 homes within existing urban areas.
Some of the noteworthy places we have helped protect are Cowell Ranch in Contra Costa County (2002), Bear Creek Redwoods in Santa Clara County (2000), Pleasanton Ridge in Alameda County (1993), and Fort Funston in San Francisco (1961). Greenbelt Alliance was also part of the efforts to protect the Marin Headlands and Angel Island, and the creation of all the Bay Area's public park agencies, including the East Bay Regional Parks District.
Our Future
The Bay Area will grow in the years ahead. If we plan for it well, that growth can occur in a way that protects the environment, promotes social equity, and preserves the region's quality of life.
Over 4,000 Bay Area residents are members of Greenbelt Alliance because they care about our region and support our work to make it a better place.
To become a member, click here, or call us at (415) 543-6771.
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