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Press ReleaseMay 26, 2005 Contact: Greenbelt Alliance's Vision for Coyote Valley Wins Major National Award Subheading Chicago - The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) has selected Greenbelt Alliance's report Getting It Right: Preventing Sprawl in Coyote Valley for a 2005 Charter Award for projects that enhance their communities through excellence in design.Getting It Right is a comprehensive vision for a compact, walkable, transit-friendly community in San Jose's Coyote Valley, a 6,800-acre agricultural valley on the city's southeastern edge. The report won one of five CNU Charter Awards for regional or city-scale plans with innovative approaches to place making and sustainability; other award-winners included plans for places in Virginia, China, Australia, and India. "This is a tremendous opportunity for the City of San Jose: Getting It Right has now twice received national recognition as a practical guide for making Coyote Valley into a vibrant new community," said Tom Steinbach, Executive Director of Greenbelt Alliance. "San Jose's leaders can use Getting It Right as a tool to make Coyote Valley a national model of good planning." The City of San Jose is now considering adding Getting It Right as the basis for an alternative option in its environmental impact study of developing Coyote Valley. Getting It Right offers a less costly alternative to the city's current plan for the valley, while ensuring protection for farmland and hillsides, and funding for community needs like affordable housing and health clinics. Greenbelt Alliance produced Getting It Right in cooperation with a consulting team led by the respected land use and architecture firm WRT/Solomon E.T.C. The Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) promotes sound urban design and walkable, mixed-use cities and towns as alternatives to sprawl. The juried Charter Awards program is CNU's main vehicle for recognizing work that best embodies and advances the principles of the Charter of the New Urbanism. [For more information, visit www.cnu.org/aboutcnu/index.cfm and click on "Awards."] ### For 50 years, Greenbelt Alliance has been the San Francisco Bay Area's advocate for open spaces and vibrant places, with offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Walnut Creek, San Rafael, and Santa Rosa. www.greenbelt.org
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