Lands At Risk: The Bay Area Greenbelt
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Lands At Risk: The Bay Area Greenbelt |
At
Risk Report 2006 (15 MB pdf, 1 hr via 56.6 kbps modem, right click on the
link and choose the option to save the file)
In 2006, Greenbelt Alliance, the Bay Area's land conservation and urban planning organization, published the newest edition of its landmark study on the state of the region's landscapes.
The report found that today, there are 401,500 acres of greenbelt lands at risk of sprawl development. That includes 125,200 acres at risk within the next 10 years, classified as high-risk land, and 276,200 acres at risk within the next 10 to 30 years, classified as medium-risk land. If current development patterns continue, roughly one out of every 10 acres in the entire Bay Area could be paved over in the next thirty years.
Summary (6 MB pdf, 24 minutes via 56.6 kbps modem, right click on the link and choose the option to save the file)
Press Coverage:
05/25/2006 A red flag
against sprawl, San Francisco Chronicle
05/25/2006 Silicon
Valley, greenbelt leader, San Jose Mercury News
05/25/2006 Fewer acres
at risk than 5 years ago, study says, Contra Costa Times
05/25/2006 Greenbelt
Alliance warns Solano open space at risk, Vacaville Reporter
05/25/2006 Group sees
Solano sprawl potential, Fairfield Daily Republic
05/25/2006 New Report:
South Valley at Risk, Gilroy Dispatch
05/25/2006 Report
details sprawl's threat to Bay area open space, Associated Press
05/26/2006 Bay Area's open
space at risk during next 30 years, Monterey Herald
05/31/2006 Bay Area land
at risk of becoming suburban sprawl, cbs5.com, San Francisco Sentinel
06/03/2006 Saving Sonoma
County's open space, Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Maps:
Regional
Map
Click to see a larger view of the map at the left; in the larger view, click
any area to see that county's map.
Aerial/Satellite
Images
Google Earth aerial view of the Bay Area; fly over the whole region, see what's
on the ground in at-risk lands, or take a tour of sprawl hot spots.
Change
in Lands At Risk (368 KB Flash animation)
Watch an animated map of the change in Bay Area lands at risk since 1994.
Change
in Urbanized Land (454 KB Flash animation)
Watch an animated map of the change in Bay Area urbanization since 1850.
To purchase a copy of the At Risk report or a poster-size copy of the regional At Risk map, click here.