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Help Us Pass Measure T!

By Alice Kaufman, Legislative Advocacy Director at Green Foothills September 4, 2020 Measure T, which will renew funding for the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority (OSA), will be on the ballot for most Santa Clara County voters this November. Volunteers are needed to help get the word out about this important ballot measure to […]

A hopeful sign for Coyote Valley

Coyote Valley got some significant electoral results on Tuesday when San Jose voters passed a record-breaking bond measure for infrastructure and public safety, Measure T.  As a part of the measure, up to $50 million in bonds could go to the preservation of Coyote Valley.  While it seems like an odd addition to a bill […]

Flooding and Coyote Valley

    Many months later, the photographs from the 2017 Coyote Creek Flood look even more eerily strange–cars reduced to strange stranded shapes in flat brown water, homes becoming islands, neighborhoods besieged by flood.  But as odd and unreal as the pictures and the aerial drone footage look now, the effects on residents of neighborhoods […]

San Jose’s Measure T: Protecting Coyote Valley

by Alice Kaufman, Legislative Advocacy Director of Committee for Green Foothills This November, San Jose voters will have the chance to help save Coyote Valley while also voting for disaster preparedness, public safety, and infrastructure. Measure T, a bond measure on the November 2018 ballot, will provide up to $50 million in funding for land […]