One advantage of this blog is it gives us a chance to share documents that might not fit on other parts of the website. Here (in PDF format; requires Acrobat Reader) is a letter we delivered yesterday to the San Jose City Council.
Of particular interest is our concern that the county-wide habitat plan may have been deliberately delayed by San Jose to keep it from affecting Coyote Valley. This suspicion has been floating around for a while now; it will be interesting to see if we finally get a reaction to it by making it public.
-Brian
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
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Given that the actual development of Coyote Valley will not likely occur for many years--perhaps even a decade--does it matter that the Specific Plan will precede the HCP for the region? Once the HCP is in place, development will have to comply with the standards set, am I right?
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I think the main problem is that San Jose will help shape the HCP. By getting the Specific Plan done first, they will try to minimize changes that could be made for the purpose of a better HCP. It's a process issue. If you care more about ramming through development than you care about protecting wildlife, then you would do exactly what San Jose has done.
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