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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Hat tip to SPCWC’s January Newsletter
Mountain View residents take note – the City Council and the Environmental Planning Commission will hold a joint special meeting this Tuesday, February 2 at 6:30 PM at the Senior Center, 266 Escuela Avenue. Mountain View planning staff will unveil two different visions for the city’s future development. Residents can voice their opinion on how to best balance the needs of the community and wildlife.
The notice & agenda are HERE in Mountain View’s incredibly annoying “laserfiche” repository. My favorite part (today) is how the disabled access request requirement is in incredibly pixelated text-image: not something someone’s text reader will be able to parse.
The “two versions” are in this 31 page document. The text of the General Plan Land Use Options begins on page 9 of the pdf (different than the page numbering in the sections), options overview on p 11, change areas on p 17, and comparison tables on p 28. North Bayshore is described on p 20 with much of the concern focussing on the transit issues, with option B allowing more residential use in the area.
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Today is the dedication of the Moffett Blvd Overcrossing (pictured) and the El Camino Real to Sleeper Ave extension.
Tim Oey of Sunnyvale writes about extending the trail into to Sunnyvale in a blog post this week and has drawn a Google Map to represent his understanding of the possibilities. Friends of Stevens Creek Trail have a trail status page and mailing lists to keep folks informed of changes as well.
i know from the Stevens and Permanente Creek Water Council that trail grades can be controversial. While my understanding is that for Mountain View residents, issues of “crime” — more specifically encampments of homeless along the creek — have decreased with the trail, there is also the environmental impact of routing a well used corridor for bicycle commuting and wheeled recreation along the wildlife corridor. The whirr of speeding bikes and the vrumm-vrumm-vrumm of roller bladers can be a constant companion on the existing trail. Personally, though, i found the creek first through commuting and then, in my frequent observations, i became concerned for its health. While not every commuter is going to become concerned for the health of the riparian ecosystem, the trail makes it visible and allows local residents to connect with the original arteries of the region.
I love the vision of the Stevens Creek corridor supporting a trail that connects the Bay trail to the Ridge trail, that connects the open spaces in the Santa Cruz mountains to the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge around the south bay.
Today, a little celebration of that vision coming closer.
View Stevens Creek Trail + Possibilities in a larger map
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
See http://www.stevenscreektrail.org/Events/TD_2009/Creek_Cleanup_Flier_2009.pdf
The annual Stevens Creek Clean-up sponsored by the Friends of Stevens Creek Trail and the City of Mountain View is Saturday April 25 from 9am to 12 noon. This is our annual volunteer event to have fun outside and help clean up the creek, trail, and nearby park areas.
Part of the cleanup will be in Old Mountain View, and bicycling to the event is recommended. Youths from 6-18 are welcome with a responsible adult guardian. Multiple youths are okay with each adult guardian if the adult agrees and signs their waivers.
Meet 9 am at Whisman Park, 310 Easy St, off Middlefield between Hwy 85 & Whisman. Wear sturdy shoes, long sleeves/pants, and a hat for sun protection. Goes on rain or shine – dress for the weather.
We serve pizza at the end – please RSVP so we know how much to bring.
Email Aaron or leave a message at 650-903-6067.
If I aleady replied to you, we know you are coming.
Thanks! www.stevenscreektrail.org ed@stevenscreektrail.org
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
The recent mail brought the fall 2008 issue of “The View” (not yet available on the city website). Inside is a notice of the 25th Anniversary Celebration. From Palo Alto Online:
Shoreline at Mountain View celebrates 25 years as a 750-acre, regional wildlife and recreation area on Sun, Sept. 29, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with fun for the whole family. Call: 650-903-6392.
This day kicks off with the Stevens Creek trailblazer race and a city golf tournament. Environmental Walks will leave the Rengstorff house on the hour from 11 am – 2 pm and will last about an hour. Picnic boxed lunches can be reserved for $10.95.
Shoreline at Mountain View is on the east side of the creek, opposite Moffett Field, in the final reach of the creek. It’s a destination for people going down the Stevens Creek Trail, and provides more habitat for baylands wildlife before the Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge.
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
More information about the 10K Race and 5K/3 mile Walk on Sunday, 28 September after the cut. Race proceeds support Friends of Steven Creek Trail. Don’t forget the eWaste recycling event on Saturday, 6 September, to support the Stevens and Permanente Creek Watershed Council. The church location is adjacent to Hale Creek, a tributary of Permanente Creek.
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
A recommendation for your blog reading: for Santa Clara Valley Water District politics, follow Diana Foss’ Running Water blog. The Friends of Stevens Creek Trail also have a weblog, but it lacks an RSS feed.
News about Hangar One at Moffett Field, construction of an overpass for the Stevens Creek Trail at Moffett Blvd, Stevens Creek Trail politics, and a Monte Bello Open Space round-up.
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Most mentions of Stevens Creek were in relation to the tragic accident in which two cyclists were killed on Stevens Creek Rd in the park. Budget issues hit Stevens Creek Trail planning in Mountain View while Los Altos considered a route. Mountain View gained support to use Cuesta Park Annex as a flood basin. Mountain View Trees planted trees along Stevens Creek Trail.
Steve Williams posted another live meeting report of the Moffett Field Restoration Advisory Board (RAB). The report included one on the status of a specific habitat of Western Pond Turtles. The Petroleum Program report covered how old gas stations, air fueling lines, and boiler plants are being monitored as the oil is cleaned up. Monitoring points can be viewed at http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/.
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
First, a link to an older story about a Zeppelin possibly making use of Moffett Field. To my uninformed eye, that looks like a delightful co-use of the space, and my steampunk sensibilities prompt me to wonder if the bay area needs lots of zeppelins for disaster relief. About the time i ran across that article I found Steve Williams‘ site. He is “a pilot and aircraft owner from Mountain View. [His] goal for [his] web site is to record news and opinions about public use of Moffett Field, and especially civil aviation use.” He is such a well measured correspondent and his site provides such a useful service, i hope that civil aviation use can be found to have no negative effect on the wildlife refuge. He’s provided an update on the Hanger One report from the Navy, delayed until January.
In other news, the SF Chronicle ran an article about the release of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project report with this supportive blog entry from a hiker. I wish i could have taken more time off from work to be involved in the report development, and wonder if i should volunteer to be on the Alviso Ponds & Santa Clara County Working Group. There seem to be no surprises. The Chron reports that, “Today’s plan favors converting 90 percent of the former ponds to tidal marsh,” and mentions the concept of adaptive management (explained in a KQED segment) and how that may change that target date as observations are made about the effects of the early changes. I’m personally delighted to hear that, “A 2 1/2-mile segment of the Bay Trail will open between Mountain View’s Stevens Creek and Sunnyvale for hiking, biking and watching wildlife.” The December Newsletter reports, “Next year should be particularly exciting as we plan to … open the segment of Bay Trail adjacent to Moffett Field.” I’m not patient enough to dig out an exact date, but i think the work i’ve been observing has been of trail development. I hope it’s soon. When i walk out to the bay on the trail beside the creek, i really enjoy the sense of being so far away from sub/urban life and the changing views of the Moffett Field buildings. I think this will be an exciting addition. I do hope that in opening it up to public use that the public can respect the wildlife habitat and that i don’t have any more encounters with runners with their dogs off leash. (Dogs are not allowed in the Don Edwards section of the Stevens Creek Trail.)
Just as as side note, as i look at the maps being put out as part of the restoration planning, i note the well marked Hetch Hetcy aqueduct and ponder again whether Santa Clara parcel data has grounds for not responding to freedom of information requests for data on the grounds of a threat to homeland security. Hrmph.
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Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Why don’t social network sites and social sites and Web2.0 sites just use FOAF? Use, in the sense that they upload from it? So i can (try) to keep a database about the web2.0/social/froufrau sites which i frequent (or infrequent, as the case may be) and all these sites can just pull from that database? I’m happy to see FaceBook allows one to suck in one RSS feed, which is movement towards better intertwingling. I note Yahoo! 360° allows three. Ah, 43People is unlimited. So one could create the master feed there and then use that to feed the social networking sites. All of this begs the question of whether anyone wants to know what i’ve been reading or pondering or planning on any basis.
And then a colleague posts to the RLG Programs blog about LinkedIn and networking. She ponders the networking activity going on. Facebook has a corporate network, which seems a little more likely to be useful for internal networking. Meanwhile, the as yet unnamed Mountain View development team has set up a team page on (one of) the (many) internal wiki(s), and folks are setting up professional home pages there. How many might we need?
All this follows a Wednesday discussion led by DRR who had been to the Internet Identity Workshop 2007 the previous week. (Follow the tagged blog entries.) One of the pieces of news he brought back was that AOL was about to implement OpenID. This wasn’t quite news to me as the previous Friday, i’d been spammed by http://openid.aol.com/roederletha993. BTW mentioned ClaimID, which had changed from its late 2006 incarnation. Then ClaimID seemed to be a way to tag things written about one’s self to collocate them all in one place. It now seems to be a way to collocate all one’s social networking profiles.
This IIW2007 blog entry brings up a danger of FOAF publishing — one that was slightly addressed by encoding the email addresses: what happens when it’s too easy for vendors to collect information about you? If i could use a profile of some sort to fill out a form with some random on-line vendor, would i end up giving them more information than i already do?
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Thursday, February 15th, 2007
From the flyer for the Cool Cities Campaign Kick-off Rally:
Unite to Fight Global Warming Rally
Sunday March 18, 2007
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Historic Carrington Hall
Sequoia High School
1201 Brewster Avenue
Redwood City, CA
Two blocks from Caltrain Station
Free and open to the public
Show your local leaders YOU want action on global warming!
Learn how YOU can take action on this historic challenge
Mark the kick-off of the Cool Cities Campaign as the Sierra Club’s Loma Prieta Chapter joins other organizations and YOU to take action on global warming one city at a time…
Contact: globalwarming of lomaprieta.sierraclub.org
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