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Greenbelt Alliance In the News
January 17, 2006 Growing Communities, Growing Issues Morgan Hill "South Santa Clara County is quite different from the rest of the county in that it retains a lot of rural character, and we have community separators between Morgan Hill and San Martin and between San Martin and Gilroy. I think a lot of residents want to keep it that way. More than 1 million people are expected to move to the Bay Area by 2020, so we need to think differently about development patterns. We need to build higher instead of sprawling out into surrounding farm lands. We're not saying there should be no development at all - it's going to happen. But we need to use our land more efficiently. We should concentrate on downtown areas, preserve the greenbelt, hillsides and farm lands. These things keep us distinct. Communities to the north of us have pretty much lost the opportunity to preserve these things, and we should learn from their mistakes and make preservation a priority." Michele Beasley, South Bay Field Representative at Greenbelt Alliance, an environmental advocacy group ### |
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