Campaigns
Our current advocacy work: View Greenbelt Alliance’s Campaigns in a larger map.
Our current advocacy work: View Greenbelt Alliance’s Campaigns in a larger map.
The City of Oakland is pursuing a specific planA plan addressing land use distribution, open space availability, infrastructureA general term for public (and quasi-public) services and facilities, such as sewage-disposal systems, water-supply systems, other utility systems, and roads. and infrastructureA general term for public (and quasi-public) services and facilities, such as sewage-disposal systems, water-supply systems, [...]
El Camino Real is a vital thoroughfare on the Peninsula, yet it suffers from traffic congestion, neglect and dangerous situations for pedestrians and bicyclists. Efforts are underway to transform El Camino Real into a grand boulevard with wide sidewalks and bike lanes, townhomes and parks.
Marin Community Housing Action Initiative’s Live Local campaign is a collaboration between two Bay Area nonprofit organizations, Greenbelt Alliance and the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California , in partnership with the Marin Community Foundation. Our goal is to work with neighbors, community leaders and elected officials to bring together the best thinking and most innovative approaches from the environmental, social justice, and [...]
By 2035, the nine-county Bay Area is expected to add over 900,000 new households and 1.2 million new jobs. We have to plan now for how we get around and how we build. We have to grow smarter.
Envision San Jose 2040 Envision 2040 , San Jose’s bold blueprint for growth over the next three decades, was approved by the City CouncilA city’s legislative body. The popularly elected city council is responsible for enacting ordinances, imposing taxes, making appropriations, establish¬ing city policy, and hiring some city officials. The council adopts the general planA statement of [...]
A natural gem in Contra Costa County, the Tassajara Valley provides important habitat for rare and endangered wildlife as well as valuable agricultural lands, outdoor recreation, and natural beauty. Yet for all its rural charm, this quiet valley just east of Danville and San Ramon is the site of an ongoing 30-year battle over sprawlThe process [...]
The Santa Clara Valley Habitat Plan, started in 2006, is a long-range conservation strategy to enhance ecological diversity and habitat function in about two-thirds of South Santa Clara County.
Santa Rosa is planning for two Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) stations — The city recently completed one downtown and is working on a second in North Santa Rosa by Guerneville Road. For local residents, this means an opportunity to create vibrant neighborhoods with walkable streets, good transit connections, housing for all, and development with reduced pollution and waste. [...]
The City of Mountain View is updating its General Plan—the City’s blueprint for growth over the long term. The process will include an update of the Housing Element, an important part of any city’s general plan.
Collaboration paid off in Concord — and now that Contra Costa city has a world-class future in the works.
On January 24, 2012 the Concord City Council approved a visionary plan for the inland portion of the shuttered Concord Naval Weapons Station, a 5,100 acre site adjacent to the North Concord BART station.
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