Children's educational subscription box. Includes children's book, math and literacy games, art projects, fine motor materials and science activities.
This kit features the book Cactus Hotel by Brenda Z.
For Immediate Release, February 8, 2021
Contact:
Lisa Belenky, Center for Biological Diversity, (415) 385-5694, lbelenky@biologicaldiversity.org
Jana Sokale, Citizens Committee to Complete the Refuge, (510) 229-7550, janaslc@aol.com
Appeal Challenges Housing Development on Restorable San Francisco Bay Wetlands
469-unit Luxury Development Threatens Wildlife, Sits in FEMA Flood Zone
NEWARK
, Calif. The Citizens Committee to Complete the Refuge and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal appeal today challenging the approval of the “Sanctuary West” housing development that would fill restorable San Francisco Bay wetlands and construct 469 luxury housing units in a Federal Emergency Management Agency flood zone.
The groups said the city of Newark failed to study the environmental harm of filling restorable Bay wetlands adjacent to a national wildlife refuge. The threat of rapidly increasing sea-level rise creates an urgent need for protect
January 12, 2021
By Daniela Ades, Greenbelt Alliance
Developers have secured approval from the City of Newark to pave over hundreds of acres of open space directly adjacent to the Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge, trucking in over 100,000 dump trucks of fill to construct 469 luxury housing units all atop restorable wetlands within a 100-year FEMA flood zone that is anticipated to be completely inundated by sea level rise.
With the City of Newark having approved this destructive “Sanctuary West” development project, it is now up to the state regulatory agencies whose job it is to protect San Francisco Bay to step in and stop this destruction. Urge the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) and San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (Water Board) exercise their full regulatory authority to protect the “Newark Area 4” baylands before it is too late.