This November Santa Rosa and Cloverdale can set some good boundaries. City councils in both Sonoma communities voted this week to put urban growth boundary measures on the November ballot.

Greenbelt Alliance, Save Mount Diablo, Sierra Club, and Brentwood residents have organized an opposition campaign to Measure F. If all goes well June 8, this development scheme will be beaten back, again.

Saturday, January 30, Executive Director Jeremy Madsen will share Greenbelt Alliance’s Grow Smart Bay Area vision at the annual Bay Area League Day hosted by the League of Women Voters.

“Conservation groups such as the Greenbelt Alliance support ‘in-fill’ development in Marin around transit hubs… It makes sense to design residential and commerical growth around these hubs. That’s what the Greenbelt Alliance concluded in a new report, ‘Grow Smart Bay Area.’”

Blogging Bayport Alameda applauds Grow Smart Bay Area: “The report identifies areas are available through infill development or revitalizing areas that are underutilized … and, yes folks, even Alameda is identified as being able to accommodate growth.”

A June 16 editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle calls Grow Smart Bay Area “a refreshingly upbeat view of the future.”

Bloggers for architects and business leaders report on Grow Smart Bay Area: Read posts in the San Francisco Business Times Bay Area Biz Talk and The Architect’s Newspaper blog.

An editorial in the San Jose Mercury News urges everyone to make the land use-climate change connection: “…how we lay out the streets, how close together we place the homes — affects global warming.”

San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed said San Jose must strive to grow in ways that will attract creative residents who will keep Silicon Valley at the forefront of technological innovation. That goal, he said, means keeping the city an enjoyable, beautiful place to live.

Contra Costa Times reports:
Titled “Grow Smart Bay Area,” Greenbelt Alliance’s new study makes the case that the Bay Area can say no to suburban sprawl and still accommodate new residents and jobs.