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Your Five Minute News Flash
Greenbelt Alliance * Volume 2, Issue 11:
Holiday Edition 2003
Happy Holidays from
Greenbelt Alliance!
Greenbelt Alliance's own South Bay Field Representative, Jessica Fitchen,
paddles
through the Goodyear Slough on the staff canoe trip in November.
In
this edition
Feature: Greenbelt Alliance Election Success
Feature: Petaluma Will Fund Affordable Housing
With New Fee -- First in Sonoma!
Feature: Sonoma Casino Update
Feature: Greenbelt Alliance Origins: Looking
Back, Looking Forward
Upcoming Outings & Events
Greenbelt Alliance Election Success
Three ballot measures endorsed by Greenbelt Alliance cruised to victory on
November 4. These measures protect nearly 75,000 acres of open space and agricultural
land and promote smart infill development within urban growth boundaries.

Petaluma
Will Fund Affordable Housing With New Fee - First in Sonoma!
On December 1, the Petaluma City Council adopted the first Jobs-Housing Linkage
Fee ordinance in Sonoma County by a 6-1 vote.
Sonoma
Casino Update
We need your help to keep a casino off environmentally sensitive
lands.

Greenbelt
Alliance Origins: Looking Back, Looking Forward
2003 marks the forty-fifth anniversary of Greenbelt Alliance's work to protect
open space and promote livable communities. Throughout this year we have highlighted
our history in the Newswire. In this final installment, we look back at the remarkable
successes of the last few years.

Upcoming
Outings & Events
January 10: Greenbelt Outing: Fungus Foray
January 11: Greenbelt. Outing: Quicksilver Quest
Keep an eye out for our Winter Waterfall Wonders Series of Greenbelt
Outings to be announced soon!

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away! Your membership gives us the means to protect open space and promote
livable communities. Start creating a better future for the Bay Area now.
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