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Greenbelt Alliance In the News
March 10, 2004 Have ideas? You can help shape Coyote Valley
IT'S THE LAST OPEN LAND FOR EXPANSION Mercury News EditoriaThis is going to be a hard sell, but here goes: Instead of spending this next, beautiful, 77-degree Saturday planting flowers or playing golf, how about helping to plan what becomes of San Jose's Coyote Valley? No, wait -- don't turn to Sports! Really. There are good reasons to do this, even if you don't live near the valley at San Jose's southern edge. Besides, it might even be fun. Coyote Valley is San Jose's last place to expand into open land. The city envisions a whole new community with 25,000 homes -- roughly the population of Palo Alto -- and 50,000 jobs, enough for all the adult residents. The trick is not to build it the way the rest of San Jose has developed, so that you need a car for every errand and every commute. The model would be more like Palo Alto's core area -- with the difference being that 20 percent of the housing would be affordable to low- and middle-income workers. San Jose just hired a design team headed by the Dahlin Group that will work with the Coyote Valley task force and gather ideas from the public. Saturday begins the public outreach. A bus tour of the valley will start things off. For the discussion, bring ideas and pictures of what you think the new community should look like. There are ideas on the table already. The city has set guidelines, and
the Greenbelt Alliance has done a proposal with great ideas for natural
flood control. But the final plan has to have broad support from the rest
of the city -- and the more people participate, the better the plan will
be. Saturday's your chance to get in at the ground floor. ### |
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