A Smart Growth Vision for San Jose's Coyote Valley
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A Smart Growth Vision for San Jose's Coyote Valley |
Greenbelt Alliance * The Newswire
Volume 2, Issue 6, June 2003
Greenbelt Alliance has just released Getting It Right: Preventing Sprawl in Coyote Valley, a comprehensive report outlining a smart growth vision for development in San Jose's Coyote Valley.
In response to the City of San Jose's plan to allow development in Coyote Valley, a 6,800-acre area of open space and agricultural land on the city's southeastern edge, Greenbelt Alliance held a year-long series of workshops with a broad spectrum of stakeholders to discuss how and where development in Coyote Valley should occur. These workshops led to Getting It Right, a smart growth vision that promotes environmental sustainability, social equity, economic vitality, and a sense of community. Getting It Right provides a template for smart growth not only in Coyote Valley, but also in other urbanizing areas throughout the Bay Area and across the nation.
"If Coyote Valley is to be developed at all, development should be based on a smart growth model that protects open space and creates livable, economically vibrant communities." says Tom Steinbach, Executive Director of Greenbelt Alliance. As the City of San Jose moves forward with its plans to develop Coyote Valley. Getting It Right can serve as a guide on how to avoid wasteful sprawl and achieve smart growth.
Greenbelt Alliance produced Getting It Right in cooperation with a consulting team led by the respected land use and architecture firms of Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC (WRT) and Solomon E.T.C., a WRT Company.
The report has been well received by the press and neighboring communities. For more information, go to the report's information page.